I walk past litter every day. I see it, I am saddened by it and I am angry about it.
I wish people didn’t drop litter where I walk. I wish people cared not to drop litter at all.
I wish people cared like me.
I wish people were like me.
…But I am the person who walks past the litter, knowing it is wrong and with the means to pick it up.
Obviously I am just the person who would prefer to be sad and angry rather than being the person who makes a difference.
If I am the person who can walk past the litter I guess I am bound to be the person who will walk past much greater and invidious prejudice, unfairness and injustice too.
I can say I do not have the time, the strength or the means to help, so that is why I walk past. Although I see I am the person who has the time, strength and means to be sad and angry about it.
I guess I have practiced sad and angry more.
I wish people were not like me.
I wish people were like the person I need to be.
I wish I was like the person I need to be.
Perhaps a time therefore to own that responsibility; to say out loud that nothing is stopping me.