- Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
Doing nothing. A very loaded word. I was reading the news about the recent floods in Jakarta. One thing everybody seems to agree on is that the government did nothing, if anything at all, to prevent the situation. Some experts commented that after several earthquakes & the tsunami, the government did little or nothing at all to prevent or mitigate natural disasters in the future. Sad but true.
But what about the rest of us? We don't have to talk about heavy stuff like global warming or mass poverty. There are needs everywhere. I've often hear people who say that they've good intentions. The problem is that these intentions never took off in any form. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. We're mostly nice people, even good people.We've lots of people with great compassion, lots of people with great passion & great vision.What we often lack are people with great imagination. That's why so little is accomplished, if anything at all. And this is no wonder why we create so much fuss & pomp over our little accomplishments. Mark Twain once said - “Noise produces nothing. Often a hen which has merely laid an egg cackles as though she has laid an asteroid.”
