Daily Mood Quotes
Day 162 – October 12, 2011
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, and honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
~Leo Buscaglia
So simple and yet its the simple things we seem to forget or just choose not to remember. How much time does it take to smile, to lend a helping hand, offer up an honest compliment, help someone who needs help? Yet, everyday I watch people walk away and never pay attention to the little things. Even responding to an e-mail seems to have become “to much work.” I'm glad the previous generations didn't think like that. Chances are good we'd all still be scraping out subsistence livings as serfs, or something. It makes me wonder if the generation of today understands the impact we are having on the generations of tomorrow. What do I mean, well think about it: in today's hurried world, we are not stopping to take a moment to do the right thing and the example that is being set is being watched by the next generation. Hey, if walking away from someone who needs help works for them, then I can do it too. Slowly, the civil in civilization has begun to fade. I'm really not worried about some Apocalyptic event or comets rubbing out civilization. Our laziness in dealing with each other will quietly provide an unrecoverable death spiral. There are several cases, just within the last year, where everyday people needed help (someone hit by a car, a mugging, take your pick) and everyone just went on about their day. Worse yet, some actually stood there and took pictures with their cell phones. Are you kidding me, thats what we have come to...Shameful.
The point is somewhere amid all the hustle and bustle, chaos and confusion; it seems we have begun to lose our capacity to be empathetic toward each other. The little things that build unity among people are now “passe.” Attitude has replaced empathy and disengagement has superseded courtesy. So, how do you think that's going to play out over the next decade, or four? Our children see that as the norm and so they push the envelope a bit more (hey, we did), and each generation after that does the same thing. Where do you think that will lead? It won't take too long before we have regressed to a point of no return. End of game. All because we didn't take the time today, to do that little extra caring step that means so much.
We always want the other guy to step up and be there for us, but on a planet of 7 billion people, we are all that “other guy.” Little things count and we are all part of the bigger picture, no matter how we try to mentally frame our lives; we are all accountable to the next generation. A butterfly flaps it's wings in Brazil, or not.... In the movie Terminator with Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sarah Connor, (played by Linda Hamilton) said it point blank. “Its our mission. This is our life, If we stop caring about that, then we are lost.” Our mission is to show the best in us to the next generation and to the generations after that. Otherwise, we as a species really will be lost.
What positive step will you take to turn a life around today?
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