Greetings,
‘If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change’.
I read this recently and thought of this day-to-day world we live in and how we need to deal with everyday issues no matter what level of spiritual reality we perceive ourselves to be.
Rubbish needs to be dealt with no matter how careful we are in not creating too much of it.
Where I live, we recently had a little dilemma with our rubbish in our red topped bins not being collected as usual each Thursday. Those of us residents at the back of our townhouse complex place our bins on the back street by our carports, whereas the front townhouse people place their bins at the front of our complex in the parallel front street. We, at the back left our bins out overnight, in the hope the bins contents would be collected on Friday, to no avail.
There the full bins sat forlornly like red topped sentinels, all in a row by our carports.
In the meantime, the bins at the front of our complex were now being collected – on Fridays! Change of day. Our bins at the back were being ignored.
Perplexed by this, after two weeks of non-collection, and checking unsuccessfully with our strata management, I ventured forth to our local town council office, seeking explanation. I was told by a lovely environmental officer she would investigate, pass on my query, and get back to me. I heard nothing.
The following Thursday morning, early, I spied from out of my kitchen window, a rubbish truck up in the little indent road to another townhouse group and opposite our complex.
Out I rushed, in my dressing gown, to speak to the truck driver before he moved on.
Problem solved! We communicated and I explained our issue. He explained he had been told our bins were part of the address on the front street and not to collect our rubbish.
Everything had been lost in translation.
He willingly promised to collect the rubbish from then on, each Friday (as the day had changed), now he knew we had always had this arrangement for our rubbish to be collected ‘at the back’. Knowledge is power. Explanation and communication are the key.
The moral of this story is to go to the ‘source’ of our concern. The (new) truck driver was the person who collects the rubbish – and took action. We had contacted the strata management and the local council without any resolution – many degrees of separation from the problem. All was resolved by going to the source – the right person.
With love,
Merriene