“Unless someone like YOU cares a whole awful
lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” – Dr. Seuss.
Some of my most valuable lessons are usually learned through
children’s shows. My daughter and I have this understanding that she can watch
television only on the weekends during school season. So it’s always a delight
to see her counting the days anticipating Friday to come so she can watch her
latest TV shows; ‘Tom and Jerry’, ‘Gaspard and Lisa’, or ‘Mickey Mouse
Clubhouse.’ However, since she was the spotlight winner in her class this
month, I decided to treat her to a movie, so we watched ‘Dr. Seuss the Lorax.’
It’s about a twelve-year-old boy who took desperate measures to find a real
live Truffula tree for a girl who signaled that anyone who can find such a tree she
would kiss and marry him. In his search he learned about the story of the
creature who speaks for the trees called Lorax. The movie was really
entertaining and had meaningful moments that made you think. At the end of the movie, this
quote came on: “Unless someone
like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” – Dr. Seuss. Think about it, it’s true?
How many times have we heard someone say “I don’t care” about a
situation or someone? Or a person said it’s not for me to do, it’s for someone
else. There is a Haitian proverb that says "Lè kabrit gen twòp mèt,
li mouri nan solèy." Meaning “When a goat has too many masters
(owners), it dies in the sun.”
Making a difference is not waiting for others to become too
exhausted to lend our hand. Making a difference is doing our part even when no
else is involved. We should wake up every day expressing our gratitude through
caring and blessings; this is a reflection of light. In the movie, the little
boy went to look for the Truffula tree so he could kiss the girl of his dream
but he discovered something even more special than that, the tree had not
affected only the girl’s longing for a real tree but also the whole community
that had been living all these years with plastic trees. When we care a whole
awful lot, life simply gets better.
©2012 Natacha Michel
1 comment:
Well said! It's just like the saying "when you believe everything seems possible" I actually came up with that one.
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