Washing Dishes Saves the World

As I stand at the kitchen sink, for the umpteenth time, I ponder how much time washing the dishes is stealing from life. The numbers frighten me as they accumulate into the hundreds of hours. My life is passing rapidly before my eyes as I realise that the single set of cutlery I carefully soak, wash, stack, dry and put away will soon by replaced by three, four, five, maybe nine. Think what I could do with that time... I could do productive things, I could be an effective community leader, I could change the world. And so I stop doing the dishes and five hours later I realise I have achieved nothing in that time. The truth comes full steam around: busy people get stuff done. It takes discipline to change the world, because very few great things are done by accident. When you let the simple things slip, your drive, motivation and momentum start to slow. If you really want to change the world, I guess charity begins at home ... washing dishes.