The Unselfish Side

When do you do the right thing?  Always? Or only when someone is looking, or grading you, or if you are going to get/lose something?  You push your grocery cart into the parking lot and unload groceries into the car.  No one is looking, so why bother to bring the cart back to the store for the next person.  Just leave it “ here” next to your car, though it obstructs the next person from parking there.  You are supposed to pick up after yourself at home, but no one is looking or will notice if you leave something somewhere.  Why bother now?  Just leave wreckage behind you as you move through your self-absorbed life.  You see a very popular item on a shelf in a store.  There are only two.  You really need only one now, but someday you will need another.  No one is looking at the item, so take both.  There are hardly any cars in the parking lot.  You are only going to be in the store for quick moment.  There is a handicap spot right at the front door.  No one is looking.  And so it goes.  But by doing the right thing when no one is looking keeps you on the unselfish side, and that can keep many a person on the sobering side of life.