so the ice stays and we all wait for the melting to commence.
what would be easier and more effective ? if everyone could just do it their damn selves...
when i did venture out to dr. bombays over in candler park, i saw a couple plow trucks pushing the ice away. but on entering dr. bombays, i see that only a small patch of sidewalk, right in front of her shop, is cleared of the ice. the rest of the sidewalk is slick and frozen.
why only clean right in front of your store ? do you hate your business neighbors ? or is it the 'it's not my job' mentality taking over? the lack of community helping community is perpetuating this slow clean up process. shovel the WHOLE sidewalk. help clean off your ENTIRE street. to keep waiting for the city to deal with it conditions people to submit power of their own environment and expect the powers about to handle every situation. sometimes, most of the time, they cannot. and in this situation, the people of atlanta could have taken those beautiful steps of good samaritanism and helped the city get back to the everyday.
but no, the perpetual, 'it's not my problem' continues to run people's moral and ethical compass and keep them sitting around like lumps until someone else has fixed the situation.
the clean sidewalk concept works for days without ice as well. for picking up the trash on your street, or helping to fix something broken on your block. taking social responsibility for the environment in which you live gives you back the power to improve your world.
or you can wait for the city to come around.
eventually.....
