A sports car pulls to a stop opposite my house. It’s driven by a well-dressed woman, early twenties with immaculate make-up and she is with her boyfriend.

A few minutes later, her window winds down and she flings out the remains of their dinner from McDonalds. As the fries, cartons and other assorted goodies spill across the road, she screeches off as fast as she can before anyone spots her.

Self respect, integrity & dignity come when we are in tune with ourselves.

They come when our actions add weight to our good thoughts and noble words.

My neighbour had also spotted what she had done and it took us a couple of minutes to sweep up the litter. And we couldn’t help noting the irony that they probably diligently put out their recycling on bin day.

Words are all well and good – It’s supporting action that makes the difference.

One ship sails East,
And another West,
By the self-same winds that blow,
Tis the set of the sails
And not the gales,
That tells the way we go.

Like the winds of the sea
Are the waves of time,
As we journey along through life,
Tis the set of the soul,
That determines the goal,
And not the calm or the strife.

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox


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