2012 January 18 - Let’s make this a better place
Monday, 23 January 2012 00:00
The world would be a better place
What! You’ve given up on your New Year’s resolution already?
Frankly, resolutions are overrated unless you are truly committed to change and betterment.
Many of us are guilty of expecting change when we don’t do anything to bring it about. It’s like opening the closet door and having everything tumble out. If you don’t rearrange the closet, nothing will change the next time you open it.
Sadly, there are people in Oliver (and a million other small towns) that wallow in so much negativity that they don’t know any different. Being positive about something is so foreign to them; all they can see is the bad, and like a virus it spreads to others who listen to it.
Yes, there is a lot of evil in the world, a lot of sadness. But there’s a lot of good, too.
For example, we saw Tricia Drought’s Grade 2 class brave the cold last week to walk down to the Oliver Food Bank and deliver home-made cookies and muffins.
We saw Shirley Roberts standing outside with her coat racks and books, all free to those who wanted it.
The day after we saw Marieze Tarr teaching “Roots of Empathy” to a Grade 6 class in hopes to prevent future bullying. Tarr does this on a volunteer basis; she doesn’t get paid for it.
These people are not content to just sit back and watch the world go by. They believe change is necessary to bring about positive outcomes.
We see positive change happening in Oliver in the new year, such as a new plan for rebuilding the high school, the promotion of Senkulmen Business Park, and the Town’s call to enhance economic development.
We think the world in Oliver would be a better place if:
More people got involved in the community instead of criticizing it
A bully saw how hurtful his or her actions were to the new kid in school
A drug addict resolved to go clean and help others do the same
People realized how much gas their spending driving to the next town to do their shopping
More parents got involved in their child’s learning
More individuals realized how important our ecosystem is
And if babies could talk
Changing the way you’ve been doing something for years isn’t easy. It’s like changing a drug habit. But if we don’t try, we can never say we did.
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