Do It Yourself

I like the current campaign advocating healthy living that features people finding discarded love handles and thunder thighs lying about after people have lost them (http://www.adcouncil.org/default.aspx?id=54). However one particular commercial in this series bugs me: a couple in a grocery store find a double chin lying on the floor. After picking it up and studying it for a minute, they put it back on the floor and walk away complaining “someone’s going to trip on that.” Well, you just picked it up, why don’t you move it lazy? I hate the current attitude shared by so many people that it isn’t their responsibility to fix anything. They just walk around complaining that someone should fix the problem, but never bother to do anything themselves. There was actually a commercial some time back that addressed this issue. It featured a bunch of girls in a dorm bathroom staring at a running faucet. They were all commenting on what a waste it was and how something should be done when another girl walked up and turned the faucet off. Everyone else was dumbstruck. I thought this was an effective way to get the point across that if you see something that needs fixing there is no better time and no better person to fix it than you. Complaining never solves the problem. Too bad the couple in the grocery store missed it