After over six months of snow and gray skies, spring is incredible. Snow melts, birds chirp, bunnies hop, etc. ect... But I was disappointed as I walked home one afternoon. The sidewalk was littered with McDonalds wrappers, gum packets, and organic pizza boxes. I felt a twang of irony as I passed three Annie's organic pizza boxes. Organic food, boasting of saving the world by eliminating pesticide pollution, still ultimately became litter. Those organic pizzas sat in the same yard as their blood enemies, BicMacs.
Funny isn't it? Everything, even with the best initial intentions, can turn tragic. All the good, all the pesticides conserved, the local farmers who benefited, didn't matter. Someone pridefully overpaid to buy organic, yet that same person couldn't even dispose of the product properly. Those pizza boxes now were just another piece of ugly litter. I still had hope for the pizza boxes. Perhaps their good could be rectified, with just a little extra effort. The next day, I picked up all the litter around my block.
The winter's snow hid candy wrappers, plastic cups, and old newspapers. Snow will always melt, exposing the ugly and forgotten. Our problems and waste won't hide forever. They are always exposed.
So pick up trash, and mend the problems hidden by winter.
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