436: You’re right, it’s not fair!
The notes I read from for this episode:
It’s not fair!
- Back from picking up litter
- Forecast, a few inches of snow
- Just want coffee, not to dispose. Ancestors could
- Just want to travel, not pollute.
- Don’t want to think about others all the time
- Just want to relax
- Tons of trash from last snow
- Asked cafe to ask people not to litter around trash
- Not our responsibility, city, customers
- Someone else, some other time, never me, never now
- Yet improves life
- So no, it’s not fair. Others got to do without thinking what if we do, we hurt others, people far away
- But any parent knows responsibility improves, stewardship
- If we live by their values, tragic
- If we live by values of cultures that have endured, joy, community, connection
- So no, it’s not fair, but what will you do about it
- What will you do about your contribution?
- Not zero.
- Lament? Take responsibility? Live in past? Create future?