With no consideration for others, those in power are shuffling things up, down, sideways and all the way around. Decisions serving personal interests and short-term incentives. They want more money. They want more power. The earth rumbles and shakes in anger.
They are perched up high, shielded from the masses.
Except, this mentality is no different from littering or not picking up after one’s dog. No different from turning a blind eye, telling ourselves to “mind our business”
Because when we need someone to lean on or dislodge something stuck on our throat… We will fall and choke. Those who we failed to protect will look on with glassy eyes. They have been infected with apathy of our own inactions.
The world may end up looking like “The Road” by Cormac McCarthy. We become zombies as the world burns. The blue, green and everything in between turns black and grey.
Or, perhaps… we can change our course of action right now. Stand up for someone weaker than us. Stand up for ourselves. Stand up to a bully.
Stand up. Be the face of integrity.
Preserving the gifts of past’s sweat, tears and perseverance. Acting today. Safeguarding tomorrow for all living things, especially for those too small to be heard or seen.
We were once small. We started out smaller than a speckle of dust.