Responsible

EarthFest 2011-- 1000
volunteers take down the entire event of
200 exhibitors that attracted over 30,000 guests
in 45 minutes

Yes.  You heard me and it isn't the first time I've said it to you either.

Yeah, I'm gonna nag you.  It's a genetic thing and an essential element of living.  It is the key to joy, to sustainability, to life and laughter... it is the central aspect of being part of this world.  Simply:

WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR EACH OTHER.


WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR CARING FOR THE LIFE ON THIS PLANET.


WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR MANAGING OUR RESOURCE CONSUMPTION SO THAT THIS SPHERE MAY CONTINUE TO THRIVE.

So that the human race may continue to live.

We are responsible for trying to know and see the world as it is.  We are responsible for not allowing fanciful thinking or selfishness to drive us to a position of greed and over-consumption.  

We are responsible for watching over our neighbors, acquaintances; our friends and enemies.  We are required to look people in the eye -- people of any age, race, religion, socio-economic background and greeting them as if they are whole.  Whole in your eyes and whole, should you believe, in the eyes of god.  We are perfectly imperfect.

We are responsible for learning; for being literate participants in society.  We are responsible for acting -- 

from our hearts and informed by facts, experience and whatever wisdom we have at our disposal.

We are responsible for sharing our honesty, truth and sense of justice with the world.  We are responsible for engaging the world on a daily basis.

"Whoever destroys a soul, it is considered as if he destroyed an entire world.  And whoever saves a life, it is considered as if he saved an entire world,"  Mishnah Sanhedrin 4:5; Babylonian Talmud.


The good you do is as if you did good for an entire world; the responsibilities you ignore are as if you have ignored the suffering of an entire world.

What one thing might you do for us all?

You are responsible.