Halifax stinks – but you can and should be its breath of fresh air.
Perhaps you (like myself) were one of the people walking to work last week and noticed the outhouse-like smell of our downtown.
“Someone should do something about that,” you possibly said to yourself.
Well, when you get ready for bed tonight and look at the person staring back at you while brushing your teeth, realize the person looking back to you, attached to the end of the toothbrush, is that person.
As you drove around downtown in the last few weeks, you may have noticed with the seasonally warm spring, there has come an influx of displaced people standing outside with various signs requesting funds for hostels, travel and help.
Maybe you said, “There should be an option for people to seek help other than a well worn coffee cup and a sign requesting funds.”
The next time you fix the floppy part of your hair that won’t stay put in the rearview mirror, you should realize you are in fact fixing the hair of a person who can help provide that option.
If in the evening reading the news online you say to yourself there are so many naysayers and change-haters in this city and someone should really put some positive words out there.
Once again you should realize the hand attached to the mouse is probably the one that can also be the one typing or texting a positive message and some hope for our city.
We’re obsessed with someone – someone who should be doing something.
Someone who should be fixing the things that make us pause for a second and say, “That is not right.”
What we all fail to do, myself included, is ever consider the fact the someone we are hoping will come along is ourselves. Maybe that someone in the world who should lead that change is you.
This city and our world has its share of problems, and it seems that more and more people cry out for a solution when it may be as simple as instead of looking and complaining, we can do and solve.
If all of us could promise the next time we say to ourselves a sentence starting with “someone should….” we promise to be that someone by (insert save the world idea right here) we could soon live work and play in a community of someones’ who care.
Christina Carew is a member of FUSION Halifax. Visit FUSIONHalifax.ca to find out how you can get involved to help make Halifax a better place to live, work and play.
