The Right Stuff

It is late, where I am from, an very late where I am, so this will be short and to the point.

Why do people find it so hard to do the right thing??!!

I have been told many, many times in my life that I am "TOO" black and white.  I have amended this to being too black and white in a grey world, but there are plenty of examples where there is right and wrong and nothing in between and yet people still have trouble finding right.

If you find someone's wallet and there is one thousand dollar in it, credit cards and ID what do you do?  Return it to its owner.  OK, that one was easy!!  If you are a kid and you see a bully picking on another kid what do you do?  Come to the aid and defense of the weaker student, or get a teacher to do so.  That one is easy too!!  In the case of the older woman who was bullied, that is putting it nicely, on the school bus, stand up for her, get the bus driver to step in, or notify your teachers/principal when you get to school.  That one is obviously tougher because there is "group think," and peer pressure and so on, but still the right thing must be done.

These are fairly simple examples of every day right and wrong.  In the past few weeks I have had some more   specific examples of people not stepping up and doing what is right, moral, civil, kind, caring.  In each of these cases the appropriate action was, and still is, plainly obvious to any and all that have been queried on these matters, and yet the actions taken have been anything but appropriate.

Right, correct, kind, appropriate, is not that hard to determine more often than not.  Just step up and do what is right, not what is easy, popular, best for you personally.

"The good of the many outweighs the good of the few or the one."  It is amazing how often these words from Spock can guide us appropriately.