First post, and a potential TL;DR

I'll be honest, I've never been much of a public blogger, the reason being that I do not feel that I have anything interesting to blog about. Those of you who know me personally may or may not know that I keep a personal LiveJournal that only four or five people have access to, and it's not very interesting anyway. So, before you TL;DR (Too Long; Didn't Read) this post, I give you fair warning.

On to today's topic that caught me way off guard.

While perusing that horrible timesuck known as MySpace, this video caught my eye.

For those of you who chose to not watch the video, it's about dogs in Nambiya, Africa, being used to protect herds from cheetah. They are beneficial to both farmers and the cheetahs by minimalizing herd loss and cheetah fatality. The most touching part was seeing the woman being loved all over by the cheetahs; I got choked up, honestly.

So, I got to thinking (which I do...a lot), and a rush of ideas and ideals hit me.

I'll be frank and blunt. When was the last time you, or anyone that you knew, did anything for the community, for the environment? Something as simple as adopting a pet from a shelter rather than a breeder or pet shop can make an enormous difference, even if it's not considered on the global scale. Why? Because we're one step closer, people. Let's face it, in America, the vast majority of the people do fall into that materialistic, fat, lazy, self-obsessed sterotype, and it's difficult to break free from that niche. We look at people who dedicate their lives to quite literally saving the world and admire them, but how many of us actually take the initiative to do something? My point exactly.

I'm not exempt from the sterotype, nowhere close. But it's time to change that, if not for myself, for those who need my life and my resources more than myself.

So the point is to write, to rally, and to network, to inspire and to gain allies. If we won't fight, then who the hell will? I can name plenty of corporations that would rather not involve themselves in anything but their business. Being an employee of one, I can relate.