Look for ways to make this better world

Don’t do anything you can’t tell your grandmother about, writes

from Melbourne.

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here is an amusing saying about failure. “They have hit rock bottom and started digging,” which suggests things can’t get worse. Yet we see many examples of the levels to which some people can sink.

We have many inspiring examples – sports people who don’t understand that drugs and cheating are wrong, celebrities who don’t understand what celebrity really means and that it doesn’t involve taking off clothes, and world leaders who don’t know how to lead or even play nice.

There are many wise people, laws created after long debates, religious texts that all provide guidance as to how we should lead our lives.

But there is a simpler version: don’t do anything that you can’t tell your grandmother about.

This is highlighted by one story of the many over the weekend involving crimes, disasters, both human created and natural, and political mayhem.

A nine-year-old boy selling Lemonade on a sidewalk in Monroe, North Carolina was robbed at gun point. Nothing justifies or excuses this.

Let’s look for ways to make this a better world for everyone, including those you don’t like, those who look different, those that speak differently and even those that oppose you.