I visited the downtown of a local small town today. Walking toward a small business I noticed a string of paper napkins scattered along the front of the building extending into the street and curb landscaping.
Starting to walk past to enter the building to transact my business, I paused. To consider. I could leave it to someone else to pick up the paper. Or, I could simply bend over and start picking them up. I wound up with two handfuls of paper napkins to place into a trash receptacle located within five meters each way of the papers.
That took me almost three minutes.
And the bending over was good for my body.
And I could look at the street and feel better at the improvement.
When I went in the business, I mentioned the paper to someone inside. “Oh, yes, I noticed those,” said the person.
Hmm. How many times do we walk past something without stopping to help?
How many people passed by the beaten and robbed man on the road before the “Good Samaritan” stopped and helped?