Out & About

As another year has come and gone, we look to make resolutions; setting a goal for change. Most may think of health and fitness, focus more on self care, but what about our community?

As I was out and about this last week, I encountered a young person eager to do something. I asked that ever lingering question, “Why is there litter?”

Certainly that is not a question to which I could reply, since I have not had the pleasure of chasing down a litter bug to ask.

What I could reply was, “I guess some people are just lacking good sense.”

It makes good sense to take care of what you have (parks and streams) and good sense to respect others’ property (city streets and county roads). It makes good sense to clean up your own mess (personal responsibility) and good sense to know that if you don’t take the first step, there could be a large pile of mess to contend with later.

Common sense (lack thereof) was not the answer that young person felt to be accurate. His reply was, “You don’t have to be smart to take out the trash.”

And those, ladies and gentlemen, are words with which I cannot disagree.

Sometimes it takes a child’s perspective to truly clear up all the garbage that is laying about in life.

There is not an IQ required to take out the trash, it is as simple as securing the bag, picking it up and placing it in the waste dispenser.

Imagine if that concept could be applied to other areas which would benefit from some common sense, like government.

If that were the case, littering would not be the eyesore that it current is in our county.

The Prospect-News