There are two important things I try to reinforce with my students. One of them is how important it is for them to listen to other people’s opinions even if they do not agree with them. The other one is to try and make them see how easy it is to help people out with random acts of kindness.
I think one of the hardest things for me to do is get up in front of my students and preach these virtues when they do not appear often around us.
I am not a political person. The idea of ever becoming a politician does not interest me in the least. I do however understand that everyone has their calling, and I am glad that it is not mine.
Take for example the Debates that were televised last night. I am embarrassed that one of them will be leading our province. The anger, rude interruptions, and off topic answers that they demonstrated is heart breaking.
I was in Indigo the other day and watched from a distance as a pile of magazines fell onto the ground. I watched as a young child walking past stopped to pick some of them up and put them on the shelf. I then watched as the father pulled him sharply away from the mess, shouting at him for picking the books up off of the ground as he did not make the mess so he should not clean it up. How sad.