Would it Kill Us?

After Reading Robert Fulghum's Credo, I am moved to look around and think about the world we live in. I mean, it's a pretty good place overall, but how easy would it be to make it even better? His first list reminds us that living a good life and being a good person is really very simple. In his second list, he points out that sometimes this is beyond our control and that outside forces make us adapt in ways we may not have forseen in the simpler list. With this in mind, I ask, "Would it kill us to..."

1. Smile at least once every day - knowing that we have so much to smile about?

2. Go out of our way to give at least one compliment to someone we care about?

3. Approach one person we don't know so well and greet them somehow?

4. Be responsible for our own actions?

5. Give a little more than we do to those who have less?

6. Take the time to represent ourselves a little better? I mean, how do we want to be remembered?

7. Keep our area clean? Whether at home, school or at work?

8. Make en effort to do our best work always?

None of these seem so difficult yet they are things that are not automatic. I believe that making the world a better place is as simple as these actions suggest. The hard part is getting everyone to buy into it. Now THAT just might kill us!