Let do better, one person at a time

"Let's do better, one person at a time"

It's easy to recognize handicapped parking signs. How could you miss them? 

So why do people who don't have the sticker or the handicapped license plate park their vehicles there anyway?

Do these occasional violators think those spots are just not being used at the moment, so they might as well use them? I don't know!

Unfortunately, there is nothing worse than needing to park close to a business because the driver is  temporarily or permanently disabled, but the driver can't find a handicapped spot because they are all filled by people who don't belong there legally. 

(You don't need to be wheelchair bound to obtain a handicap parking sticker, by the way. Like if every step you take is difficult or causes extreme agony.)

We digress.

What we really are discussing is human nature. 

There seems to be, on occasion, a certain shortage of empathy, may we dare say, particularly for those who are different from us.

We just heard about a new book about how we can overcome prejudice. It suggests that the answer is one person at a time. It is for all of us to strike up a conversation with someone who is uniquely nothing like us. We discover that what we love and cherish is in line with what different love and cherish. Are similarities are strikingly the same.

And we all might need a handicapped sticker one day.

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