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The beginning of a new year traditionally offers an opportunity to make resolutions, generally to improve one’s life.
It’s a good and meaningful tradition.
So, as 2006 begins, may we suggest a collective resolution that, if made and kept by each Utahn, would dramatically improve our state?
Let’s resolve to bring greater civility into our lives!
Collectively, let’s improve our manners as we interact with others! Let’s lower our voices and reduce the volume of our rhetoric. Let’s show greater kindness through our actions. Let’s treat one another with understanding, empathy and respect.
Let’s do it at home with those we love most. Let’s do it in the workplace, especially among colleagues with divergent views. Let’s do it in public places where strangers cross our path.
The author Aldous Huxley once wrote, “It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than ‘try to be a little kinder.’”
KSL appreciates that profound observation.
In wishing you, our viewers and listeners, Happy New Year, we extend an invitation to become more civil, to improve our manners, and to make the effort to be a littler kinder.
