Picking Up 1 Piece of Trash a Day

The Power of Small Wins

I’ve been thinking a lot about the human sense of contribution. The idea that everything you do matters is quite life-changing. I remember watching a lecture a few years ago and, there is one concept that stuck with me, and it might not seem like a radical idea at first, but when you put it under a clean lens, it really starts building and changing everything you do.

And this is the idea of being a node in a network. And you can easily think that what you do doesn’t matter that much. That you are only a genetic variation in an almighty multiverse. When you can truly reverse it and formulate a healthy way of viewing life and thinking that everything matters.

I’ve been doing this exercise lately, where every time I’m going outside for a daily walk, I will pick up at least one piece of trash, of garbage. It doesn’t really matter how small or big it is, but only about leaving the world just a little bit healthier when coming back to my comfortable home after a day’s journey into the outside world.

And I found that this helps my daily sense of contribution. And on a micro-practical level, it helps the world.