Cooperation

Ask yourself two questions every day: What have I done to make this a better world? And, What will I do to make this a better world?

Each of us being only one among billions need not take on even a significant piece of the whole. The questions are to provide orientation in the larger sea of life. We are all rowing our boats as best we can in order to assure our own survival and comfort.

The analogy ends at that point but it’s clearly important that we notice that our survival and comfort depends on an astonishing degree of cooperation world wide for us to have what we have. There is the obvious although mostly overlooked cooperation of pretty much everybody doing any physical work to produce and provide all of the stuff we have. There is the cooperation of everybody around us who behaves in a civil manner such as the people driving all of tons of steel hurtling along a few feet apart. There is the cooperation of friends and families and coworkers and the person in line behind me. And I feel like I am being called to focus more on this aspect of our common humanity. So, for me the two questions are more specifically: What have I done and what will I do to empower cooperation?

Love, Woody