After doing our
81st clean up at Access 16, we headed further down the beach to Access 39 so that my husband could stand up paddle board. When we walked up the access I saw this overflowing trashcan that normally would have made me so frustrated...
Even though trash was falling and blowing out all over the beach, I wasn't frustrated because I knew that I could fix this problem. I said to my husband,
"I'm not leaving it like this... I'm going to get a trashcan."
Hoping to find a near empty trashcan... I walked to the next access and then to the next... both trashcans were half full. I hesitated and thought to myself...
"What am I doing?? ... I don't know if I can do this... wait, I have to do this. Responsibility is NOT convenient." I made the decision to choose the closer of the two and I drug it across the beach...
In the midst of dragging the trashcan, I called my friend Ginger to let her know that I had officially lost it. Dragging the awkward, sticky, ant infested trashcan across the beach wasn't easy... but this is the way I saw it: There was a problem that needed to be fixed. Do I wish that people would have taken their trash with them instead of leaving it on the beach?? Absolutely. But they didn't. I can't change that.
I can't change what happened before me... I can only hope to change what happens after me.
Responsibility is not convenient. Doing the right thing takes extra effort... but trust me... it's always worth it. :)
