Responsibility

[liveonearth]

"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible" ---Voltaire

This quote brings to mind the waste, pollution and useless "development" that our oil-rich society is bringing to this planet. I am a snowflake. I drive a car. I take a shower every day. I live a life of luxury--compared to the majority of humans on this planet. I enjoy my luxuries. Maybe more than most snowflakes, I think about the farmhouse at the bottom of the hill that we're about to flatten. The cars that we'll knock off the road and over a cliff. The skiers that will be buried alive. But I think I would be happier if I went back to being mindless like snowflakes in the avalanche: I can't stop the rest of the snowflakes so I'm going along. I have no choice.

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Re: Me too

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That's one of the four agreements: Do Your Best. And it IS all you or I can do. When I know I'm doing it, I feel good. My worry is that I am not doing my very best, that I am taking the easy route still. I check myself constantly and wish that I found my own actions to be more consistent with my values...