This past five days have been a whirlwind for me. A good friend lost her mom, there has been tons of emails about Moving Difference achievements and then there has been the real life of violence here in the United States and even in other parts of the world.
Somewhere in the middle of all that, most of us are struggling to pay the bills, to be healthy, to have a job that we enjoy or at least can work at with expectations of decent wage. It is life.
It is hard to balance in the mind such small short things with such great loss of life daily. I haven’t been able to sit down at this computer and put my thoughts on paper because I don’t know how to in moments, followed by moments of complete anger and pain at the world, followed by moments of sadness for all.
There is no one answer to all the problems in the world. Sadly love and peace isn’t an answer just like war and anger isn’t an answer. It is back to balance of everything. We can’t be a great world if we can’t respect each other and live in harmony. It isn’t us vs. them, cause we are all one people. Always.
So what do we do? We keep going forward, we know our neighbors, we reach out to our fellow humans and we make an impact. We keep moving forward toward equality, towards a peaceful existence, towards a better future for all.
In that spirit, I ask that you think about doing an extra hour of Moving Difference this summer with a human touch. Meet your neighbors, talk to the mail person, strike up a conversation with a complete stranger, listen, connect, reply and more than anything acknowledge people. Don’t let fear rule the day, simply say hi, smile, or stop and said something nice. You might get a reply and you might not, but you aren’t doing it for a reply, you are doing to for the world and that is bigger than both of us.
I am off to do my extra hour right now, holding a sign on the busy corner I know, it simply says “Have a great Tuesday!!”
BTW – you are amazing people, all of you, MDY5 hit over 250k in completed hours on Sunday. Thanks!
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