Who is responsible for creating a kind world?
Who is responsible for ending racism?
Who is responsible for teaching acceptance?
Who is responsible for peace on earth?
Who is responsible for teaching children?
Who is responsible for protecting the people?
Who is responsible for ending child abuse?
Who is responsible for war?
Who is responsible for ending slavery?
Who is responsible for ending the drought?
Who is responsible for sexism?
Who is responsible for keeping our neighborhoods safe?
Who is responsible for ending elder neglect and abuse?
Who is responsible for ending high kill animal shelters?
Who is responsible for ending animal abuse?
Who is responsible for teaching our children empathy and compassion?
Who is responsible for debt?
Who is responsible for hatred?
Who is responsible for fatal paparazzi chases?
Who is responsible for the invasion of privacy?
Who is responsible for suffering?
Who is responsible for crap television?
Who is responsible for working long, inhumane hours?
Who is responsible for deaths associated with texting while driving?
Who is responsible for ___________ too much?
Who is responsible for ___________ too little?
Who is responsible for bullying?
Who is responsible for hunger?
Who is responsible for encouraging youth?
Who is responsible for ending gun violence?
Who is responsible for slavery?
Who is responsible for fair wages?
Who is responsible for intelligence?
Who is responsible for the future?
Who is responsible for our planet?
Who is responsible for loving?
You are.
I am.
We so often place responsibility in the hands of a very few, then blame those weak few when they don't come through with something they never personally agreed to do. We expect, then we suffer. Until you and I take responsibility for each and every concern we have in life, we cannot blame anyone but ourselves—not the President (a man), not the police (men and women), not the government (more flawed men and women, just like you and me), not teachers, not schools, not the media, not social programs.
What we buy, what we agree to (whether in word or in action), how we spend (or waste) our time, and how we act and react are our votes toward a world we are creating. Our votes. Our choices. Our power. Our world.
We must stop putting our own power in the hands of those who cannot be trusted with it.
We must be the change we wish to see in the world.
We mustn't add to the current paradigm with our own ignorance and archaic thinking that no longer serves us or the rest of humanity.
We must stand up, together, and not ask for, but create a different world.
We must stop asking permission.
We must start with ourselves.
We must stop complaining. Complaining is for the powerless.
United we stand, divided we fall.
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