And in the spirit of kindness, I am excited that people who came here from other places have given the proper respect that the land and its previously sole inhabitants deserve. It's about community and connection and a land built upon altruistic generosity and selfless acts for the common good. That's what I like. To be honest with you, I feel that sometimes I don't live up to the standard that has been set by the friendly folks that came here from Western Europe. I try, but it's sometimes difficult and I forget.
When I was a child, I even thought that it was cool to litter. I don't know what got into me. Maybe I'm naturally a bad seed or maybe I was too concerned with impressing the older kids from down the street, like Kenny and Brian (who really were bad seeds). Regardless of the reasoning, I littered. I couldn't see beyond my, then, present circumstances to realize that I was but a simple part of an enormous, loving entity. That was until I watched a commercial.
When I saw the tear roll down the check of a Native American due to a passing motorist's disregard for the mutually beneficial gentleman's agreement that was made between the previous and current peoples of North America by tossing trash out the window of his/her speeding car in a 1970's television advertisement, I understood my role and I understood my misdeeds.
I now am a faithful ally of those who revere the environment as something which needs to be explicitly cared for. I view the environment as though it's not mine do with as I please, because its not mine. It's mine and yours. It all started with an ad. You want to ask me what advertising is? Twenty years of community-minded, selflessness…that's advertising.
Mario Machado writes in many different languages for the web. Check out Bicicletas de Montana and Bicicletas Estaticas for more.