Let's roll up our collective sleeves and repair the World!
World Repair is a central idea of Judaism, after all. You leave this world a little better than how you found it.
Most of us spend our lives busy with our own SELF. Nothing entirely wrong with that. But, to do so to the exclusion of
everybody and everything else is pathetically narrow.
What would World Repair look like?
I've given this a lot of thought personally.
I've come up with sort of a lazy person't guide to repairing the world.
1. Try to make each person you encounter today feel a little bit better. A kind word, a brief clasp on the shoulder and a smile and a well-wish doesn't cost a cent.
2. Encourage somebody. Tell them you believe in them. Open a door and hold it for somebody (male or female).
3.Stifle the urge to disagree. Try saying, "I hear what you're saying. That's something to think about." This rather than bulldozing them with your "better" opinion.
4.Eat something that's good for you and omit one urge that's bad for you. Just one each day. If you smoke, stifle one cigarette. If you drink, pass up the "one for the road." If you swear, remove one nasty "shit, fuck, hell or damn" and zip it. Just that one time.
5.When you hear yourself say something negative like "This is going to be a horrible day..." immediately say aloud three positive things. "I have my health." "I've got a job" "My family loves me." Three to one. Better still, follow that negative phrase with .."oh, that isn't really true. I can make things better if I try."
6.Find something good about the people you don't like. Find just one tiny thing. Say it aloud. "That idiot, Fred, is really a good father to his daughter. I admire that." Something like that.
7. When somebody is rude to you or cuts you off, jostles you in a crowd or barks at you....try feeling sorry for them. They are negative. Negative is like a disease. Don't let them infect you with it.
Can you think of other world repair ideas that don't cost anything?
These are suggestions for truly uninvolved, lazy, apathetic people who usually don't lift a finger.
I'm waiting.