zebrasindenver

I was driving to work today and was stopped at a red-light, an elderly woman rounded the corner and as she did so she spotted a cigarette butt on the ground, she picked it up with a kleenex from her pocket, assumedly with the intention of placing it in a trash can, somewhere.

As she continued, she looked down at the snow bank on the footpath, and upon noticing the million other cigarette butts that littered the street she threw the one that she had collected back on the street in defeat.

I find it a funny commentary on defeat, she had tried to make a difference, and in this little way she succeeded, but upon realizing the i guess ‘severity’ of what would need to be done to make a complete difference, she gave up.

Is it not better to make a tiny difference than none at all, we cannot look at the situation as a whole otherwise nothing would get done, as everything would seem to be always unsurmountable.

It was a weird moment that i will come back on it a bit.