Don’t Wait For A Tragedy To Come Together As A Community

The people of Orlando banded together to block protestors from the Westboro Baptist Church. They made a human chain "of love" to keep those foul people out of the eyesight of the mourners.

I think we've all see these moments when a community puts aside its differences and does something good for the community and good for the world. It's almost like the ended to a tearjerker movie, or even a pre-battle scene where one by one people stand up and say "I'll stand by you", then another says "me too" and so on and so on.

All this weekend, people who I've never met before, people who weren't FMX listeners were stopping me in grocery stores,  the hardware store and other places,  and thanking me for standing up against last weeks hate speech (I even got some free onion rings!).  It's a pretty powerful thing, but it has nothing to do with my size, or my station in life. It's just standing up and saying "no more" and "we're not going to let ugliness win".  It doesn't matter who you are, or what you do, you can be a hero to someone.

Stand up for love and community and for everyone on the planet getting a fair chance at life. Be sure of yourself. You'll know you're doing the right think if you err on the side of love. If your goal is to meddle in someone else's affairs,  keep them from doing what they love or keep them away from who they love, you're on the wrong track. If you're religious, remember, you are not the judge. There's no way that spreading message of love and live and let live could ever be held against you.

Have a great week, and you guys be awesome to each other.