It amazes me sometimes, when I bother to notice, how much people can ignore. I guess that's the first sign that something's wrong, that I only notice when it's convenient for me. These days one can walk down the road and see so much wrong with the world just in that small glimpse of our lives. You notice the rubbish lying in the gutter when there is a rubbish bin with the iconic "be a tidy kiwi" not 5 meters away. You notice the group of young teams aimlessly wandering around causing nothing but havoc and trouble. You notice the mother with 5 young children and obvious signs that the father is no longer involved in raising those precious ones of the next generation. You notice the young mother lighting up a cigarrette with her friend even while she nurses her 3 month old baby.
I ask myself, what is wrong with this picture? Is it ignorance?
I think not, for the reason that we are bombarded every day by government messages that tell us these things are wrong, if for no other reason than the fact that they could and have been sued by people willing to give a damn for their own profit.
No, I think what's wrong with this world is apathy. People know what's going on, they just don't care anymore. They don't have a reason to change where they're at. They don't have any hope anymore
I think all this to myself as I walk down the road.
Then I realize, I'm the one who has the hope inside of me, and I'm not doing anything about it. A very wise man once said, "Take the log out of your own eye before trying to dig the speck out of your neighbor's." In other words, get your own self doing something instead of spending all your energy yelling at everyone else to do something.
If I started to give a damn, and actually did something, I wouldn't be as frustrated with everyone else not doing anything. I would be actually living for something greater.
So I challenge myself, tell someone you love them, live a life worth following, and bend over and pick up one bit of rubbish.
If all of us picked up one piece of rubbish, how different would our world look; let alone if we started living like the person next to us was as important as ourselves.
