Community awareness

Most of my clients are successful men and women who have their daily needs met with little thought or struggle. They are extremely nice people who I do enjoy sharing a cocktail with on occasion.   It is amazing to see how many of the people I meet are desensitized to other people plights.  Every morning we wake up and look at our MSN home page and we see the daily headline “2 children abducted from home”, “Flood devastates community hundreds feared dead and thousands without homes”, “The Darfur region is estimated to have 1,000,000 causalities in the next 2 years”.  We glance over this while drinking our $4.00 Starbucks latte and going over the list of things we need to get done today.  We have become an “I” society, very rarely do we step outside of ourselves and try to make a difference, no matter what size it is.  It’s easy to say there is not enough time in our day or there is nothing “I” could do about it anyway, it’s harder to acknowledge how insignificant we are as individuals and put the greater good for humanity above our own for even five minutes.  Just think what a difference one person devoting 5 minutes a day to others in need.  This may be gathering blankets for the homeless in your area, or volunteering at a head start program twice a month, or a simple as sitting down with a person who has been living on the streets and letting them know they are seen and cared about.  Just imagine what our cities and communities would be like if we all took the time to care about the others around us.