One day in the not so distant past, I was walking with my two boys to La Ladera park to burn off some of their abundant energy. While we were approaching the playground, I noticed that there was trash strewn all around it. My first reaction was "yuck, that's disgusting, I'm not going to pick that up". But then it occurred to me, If I don't pick it up, who will? Would we have to wait for the maintenance people to pick it up? Were there maintenance people that do this sort of thing here?
So I decided to do it myself. Keeping one eye on my boys while they were on the playground, I circumnavigated the play area and picked up any trash I could find. After I finished, I realized it took less than 5 minutes to do, and the playground was restored back to it's clean self.
Now I know I'm not the only one to do this, and I'm not looking for any kudos. But when my son asked me "why did you do that, dad?" I explained that if everyone would just take the time to pick up trash on the ground, there wouldn't be any because there are so many people.
I don't want this to sound like an after school special, but when I moved to Menifee, the first thing I noticed was how clean it was. So I will continue to pick up any trash that I can around our beautiful city when I come across it.
Labels: Trash-Pickup