Commitment

Did you ever promise to do something and then didn't do it?  It wasn't much of a commitment, was it?  How involved are we?  Do we really care?  Are we truly dedicated to that cause or activity?  For some reason I woke up thinking about that this morning.  Perhaps there are different levels of commitment.

The great tennis pro and lgbtq activist Martina Navratilova once said "The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed."  Oh my!  She certainly got that right!

We all have an opportunity to make change in this world.  This year we need concerned and involved people more than ever.  Every single one of us can do something, but commitment is needed.  To make change in this world of ours, be a pig, not a chicken.

We are here to enrich the world

It is very pleasing to me when I see someone else say what I am saying here in this blog every day. We are here to make the world better and to give back. (That's what I think anyway, and that's why I write about it in this blog). I know one of the reasons many of you read this is because you agree. Right? It's been especially nice this week seeing all the positive energy from Washington and around the country, which I certainly hope will continue.

I also write in a separate blog about kindness. Being kind to everyone is certainly a great way to make a difference and to enrich our world. I think that kindness enriches our world.

Thomas Woodrow Wilson, the 28th US President (early 1900s) apparently agreed too. He said "You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand."

Thank you President Wilson. I totally agree! Let's all keep enriching the world!