Rubbish and Responsibility

My daughter taught me a bit about responsibility in the now. We were walking home from pre-school today and came upon quite a bunch of rubbish by the side of the road. Raina immediately bent down to start picking it up. I started to protest and in my mind I was thinking she's going to get filthy, this could go on forever, we can't pick up every bit of rubbish by the side of the road, we should come back when we have gloves and garbage bags etc., every excuse under the sun. And she just said to me "but I want to live in a clean environment." I realized then that I shouldn't hesitate for a moment to take on responsibility such as this, just as she hadn't. I found an empty bag on me and so into it went the styrofoam bits, the McDonalds fries container, the cigarette box, the newspapers and magazines, and other junk, and we both took great pleasure in dumping it all in our rubbish bin at home.