Paying Attention

Blog post #18 of 365

What are you doing to make the world a better place? I'm not talking about a grand gesture but do you think about what you do or don't do as far as how it impacts the world?

I have recycled bottles since the days I got a nickle from the grocery store for bringing back my empties. (Next stop Thrifties for a scoop of ice cream!) I have reused containers since things started coming in plastic. I still return my cans and bottles for the nickle. I wash my car on the grass and used mild soap so I could kill two birds with one stone. We have a recycling can and it is always more full than the trash can. Every time I mow or trim anything green it goes in the green waste can to be returned to the earth. You see I think about things like this.

I think making the world a better place goes beyond recycling. I think it is about paying attention to what we do and say, how we raise our kids, and the effort me make to do and be better. I hear people ask what is the world coming to? I believe the answer might be whatever we allow it to become. I don't like cussing in kindergarten but parents who cuss don't mind. We have more and more soft porn on TV screens. What happened to the fade to black? Oh yeah those were the days of innocence. I want more innocence. We let so much slide by and then wonder how low those around us can get.

This is not time to sit back and wait for some kind of government interventions or regulations. We just need to pay attention and step up when something isn't right. We need to do more to make the world we live in better instead of expecting someone else to do it for us. So again I ask, what are you doing to make the world a better place?