About ten days ago or so, I wrote a post wondering about what can we do to help out. This past week, I came across this blog by Judi Moreo, a motivational speaker, and immediately felt that it would make a great followup. You can read the blog yourself, or subscribe, by following this link at www.Judimoreo.com:
http://www.judimoreo.com/ezine/archive/2009/0309.htm#article.
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And so, without further explanation, here's something you can do!!!
Do Something |
What have you done today? Sure, you got up, got the kids off to school, fed the cat, put in a load of laundry and made it to work. But what have you really done today?
Most people these days are so busy just getting by they don’t take time to think about what is really getting done. And, frankly, they just don’t care. It takes so much time and energy to accomplish the things that have to be done to insure survival, there is little left for figuring out what could be, if only we cared enough to make it happen.
Apathy, is the number one disease spreading around the world today. Somewhere between apathetic individuals with a total disregard for anything and extremists loudly and violently vocal about a single idea, there is a middle ground. It is a place where we all stop, think and do our part.
It doesn’t take much to pick up a stray piece of trash that has blown into the neighbors yard instead of just assuming someone else will take care of it. We all want ‘someone’ to “do something” about everything from the quality of education in our schools and the potholes in the road to the economy, global warming and world peace. We are all, each of us, that someone. And while we can’t just wave a magic wand and make it all better, we can do SOMETHING – anything.
Write a letter to your congressman/woman. Volunteer at your child’s school. Visit someone in a nursing home. Donate to a food pantry. Speak kind words, share a smile, help the gentleman in the wheelchair reach the box on the top shelf. Organize a carpool at your office or child’s school to save gas and the environment. Spend a few hours serving meals at your local homeless shelter. No matter how bad you think it is for you, there is always someone worse off than you who would appreciate a helping hand. Get involved. Hug a child, call your mom. If you don’t consciously get involved in life, in your community, in your job, you will wake up one day and realize that life just sort of happened. You didn’t live, you just took up space and air.
Stop waiting for things to get better...do something.
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1 comment:
I had this emailed to me!
Cara,
didn't think much about do something until read your comments. I ended up with the warm fuzzy feeling , yet at the time thought nothing about it. Sunday I participated in a 5K run in Portland actually I walked the 5 since I can no lon ger run. Anyway there was this father and daughter, the daughter was struggling and almost in tears. I don't remember what I said , but the daughter was soon smiling and turned to her dad and said lets run in, they had about a 1/2 mile to go. The father turned to me put out his hand and said thanks, for the encouragement. Not much but it made his and her day, and mine to.
Steve
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