Your job is also My job

Some ranting (you can skip this if you want :-)

When I started this blog I imagined all sorts of amazing outcomes. I was going to be blogging every other day, and become a central figure on personal development from a scientific perspective. Needless to say I’ve kind of left this vision behind. Even from the very beginning this felt weird. The rigid structure of only posting every other day, following schedules to maximize readership and so forth. To write only about one topic, only because you’re supposed to help your readers and not confuse them with jumping between different subjects. I don’t just think about one thing or view things from one perspective. No, this is not me, and no longer do I attempt to live by that philosophy, I’ve gone back to my roots and do things when I feel like it.

Anyway, I felt compelled to say that, let’s move on.

Imagine if…

… everyone took your responsibilities as serious as you do and if you had a bad day and, for whatever reason couldn’t do your work, people would jump in and help out. A more concrete example of this would be helping out those cleaning our streets and emptying our dustbins. I  makes me so sad, and frustrated, when people throw cigarette buds on the street and steps on them and then walks away. It seems as if they think to themselves ‘Obviously someone is going to be clearing that up, so I won’t have to care’. The same thing goes for any other type of trash.

Responsibility people, where is your sense of responsibility? Imagine if everyone had that attitude, throwing garbage on the street just because, eventually it will be cleaned up by someone. That’s not an attitude to have in a, allegedly, advanced society of human intellectual prosperity. This thinking has to end, and we have to consider everyone else’s job our own responsibility. Only because someone is paid to do something doesn’t mean you don’t have to do that particular job yourself. Or at the very least you should appreciate the work done by others no matter how insignificant it may seem in your ‘world’.

Could this work for other jobs and tasks? I think yes. Imagine someone in your office is carrying a truck load of papers. You don’t know him, but can tell they are struggling with the load. You offer a helping hand until you reach the point where you need to turn. It’s so simple, costs nothing and can really make the day for that person you just helped out. I’m confident with a little bit of thought you can imagine all sorts of situations where a tiny gesture would make a whole lot of difference if more than one person did it.

We must stop to consider only our own situation but also see those around us, our fellow human friends. We’re in this together, earth and all. The tiniest of efforts can carry plenty of weight when carried out by a group, even more if done by a society. There really are no problems we can’t overcome, we just need to think collectively and allow our collective genius to move us forward into a unified direction.

On a Mission

I’ve made it my personal little mission to pick up some trash when walking to work. It’s dead simple, costs me nothing but could have a huge impact on our living conditions. The effects of me doing it is hardly noticeable, granted, but imagine if most people decided to do this, wow! We’d have impeccably clean streets that we could be proud of.

This  would be the very definition of collaborative efforts. I long for that day.