Lamentations on Limitations

Maybe it's a problem
of my expectations,
but I seriously doubt
most people really are
incapable of doing the many
things they refuse to do
throughout the day.

It's not about accepting
limitations in others,
but rather acknowledging
that we as a society
have grown a little too
comfortable coddling
deficiencies.

Not everyone's a genius,
sure, but then, it doesn't
take a genius to know
or at least suspect that
your actions affect others
all the time.

Maybe it's the same as
believing that only some
people affect others,
that an unacknowledged life
is a worthless one.

I choose to believe that
every life affects
in some way some other life.

This is not about those
affected realizing how
or why. This is not
about ego, but about
basic causal reality.

For every action
there is an equal but
opposite reaction.

But you already knew that.