If Not You, Then Who?

 I had a great conversation today with someone at work about doing the right thing.  Sometimes, it sucks doing the right thing when you feel like you are the only one doing the right thing.  When there is evidence all around you that people are motivated primarily by what suits them rather than the greater good, it’s hard to even bother doing what’s right.  But, after much conversation, I shared with him the one reason to keep on keeping on: 

IF NOT YOU, THEN WHO?  

It is that much more important to fight to do what is right, what makes sense, when it appears that you are alone in your conviction.  Even if you are the only one, then you are the only one.  Doesn’t that make your stand that much more powerful, that much more necessary?  Besides, don’t fall prey to your own ego:

WHAT MAKES YOU THINK YOU ARE THE ONLY ONE?

You aren’t.  The world is filled with people on a personal quest to do the right thing.  There are billions of them…trillions.  There are more people out there who want to do the right thing than there are people who don’t.  You just have to find them.