looking at yourself in the mirror...

I am reading all the reports on the oil spill in the Gulf and BP. A few striking things about this....
BP neglected the safety of the rig workers, they hurried a job to get oil, mucked about getting things fixed.
The CEO went to a yacht race and BP lobbied to release a convicted terrorist....I suppose having all that money from the billions in profits makes it easy to look at yourself in the mirror. Greed does some amazing things.
Sometimes we chase after stuff and hurry through things to satisfy our greed, like ravenous wolves feeding on a deer carcass. We throw aside sanity and reason to fulfill our own needs, careless of who or what gets in the way. The small selfish things begin to bloom into larger monstrous weeds that overtake our lives. When does it stop?
Take some time to think...What we do has long lasting effects that extend past our own lives. Just like the small things that got us to this point, it is the small things that will get us out of it. Not an easy antidote or smooth road but a much more beneficial path.