A door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman pushed his way into a woman’s home. ‘This machine is the best ever’ he insisted, whilst pouring a bag of dirt on the carpet, ‘If this machine doesn’t remove all the dirt completely, I’ll personally eat the remainder.’ The lady stepped back and said, ‘Well I hope you've got a good appetite, because they cut off my electricity this morning.’
This old joke was shared by yours truly to student volunteers who had joined the initiative by ‘One World’ to clean up a small portion of the beach in a small but significant way. The point being pointed was the folly of dirtying up our world believing in the guaranteed capacity to clean up later. It was about restating the old saying, ‘prevention is better than cure’.
Indeed, while cleaning up the trash is commendable, it would be better to prevent trash from piling up. In fact, responsible and responsive life habits can ensure that we prevent garbage creation by being prudent in our use of resources and whatever is unavoidable is segregated at source to prevent unnecessary complications.
In other spheres of life too, prevention of the compounding of the problem can guarantee that we are not dependent on discovering solutions. We must envision the impact of every little act and unite our resolve to impact the result by choosing to prevent the dumping of dirt, in the arrogant belief that we can clean up later. For the connection may well go dead.
‘unite to impact’ little acts to thwart the dirt elevation...
The pile is less daunting when we choose prevention!
- Pravin K. Sabnis
Goa, India.
This old joke was shared by yours truly to student volunteers who had joined the initiative by ‘One World’ to clean up a small portion of the beach in a small but significant way. The point being pointed was the folly of dirtying up our world believing in the guaranteed capacity to clean up later. It was about restating the old saying, ‘prevention is better than cure’.
Indeed, while cleaning up the trash is commendable, it would be better to prevent trash from piling up. In fact, responsible and responsive life habits can ensure that we prevent garbage creation by being prudent in our use of resources and whatever is unavoidable is segregated at source to prevent unnecessary complications.
In other spheres of life too, prevention of the compounding of the problem can guarantee that we are not dependent on discovering solutions. We must envision the impact of every little act and unite our resolve to impact the result by choosing to prevent the dumping of dirt, in the arrogant belief that we can clean up later. For the connection may well go dead.
‘unite to impact’ little acts to thwart the dirt elevation...
The pile is less daunting when we choose prevention!
- Pravin K. Sabnis
Goa, India.
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