your daily rock : be the change
She’s the young woman savagely stabbed to death in 1964 on a New York street with 38 people watching from their apartment windows. As Martin Gansberg reported in The New York Times after the murder, “For more than half an hour 38 respectable, law-abiding citizens in Queens watched a killer stalk and stab a woman in three separate attacks in Kew Gardens. Twice their chatter and the sudden glow of their bedroom lights interrupted him and frightened him off. Each time he returned, sought her out, and stabbed her again. Not one person telephoned the police during the assault; one witness called after the woman was dead.”
We stand by. We think someone else will help. We don’t feel qualified to do what needs doing. We watch other people’s reactions rather than trust our own.
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” –William James
Don’t be a bystander in life. Every day this week, when you find yourself thinking that you hope “they” or “somebody” will do something, ask yourself how you can be even a small part of the “they.” Speak up, help someone.
Be the change.
Love,
(These beautifully painted rocks are created by Kim Mailhot, aka The Rock Fairy.
