Be the Change

I need to be the change.
Often what is going on around me is bemoaned.  It seems to me difficulties are greater in this day rather than lessor.  I only need watch the changes that have taken place in the news.
It is granted that today there is greater access than ever before to footage of bad behaviour.  Yet it seems to me there is need for security like never before.    I hear about random acts of violence regularly.  In unexpected places.  More than ever it seems possible to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.   There was a great sense of relief that the Pasis games went off so well.  Yet security had to be beefed up like never before.
Amidst all this chaos I ask myself “what can I do?”  I can only come up with one possibility. I am not responsible for the behaviour of another.  I can only provide an environment where anyone is inclined to do the right thing.  But in the end the actions of another are theirs.
I admit I get frustrated when I hear "I am giving up on this situation as it is not to my liking" when I can only think, “if you do not like the way it is, do your bit to change it.”
That to me is what I can do.  If enough feel the same way and are willing to act rather than just talk that changes for the better can be made.  Perhaps subtly at first but then possibly like a tidal wave.
Merril and I have a philosophy of attempting to leave a place we go better than we found it.  As much as possible I do not want to be a part of the problem but part of the solution.
Admittedly there may not be much I can do - but there is something.  To me doing something good is better than just saying something every time.