Complaining about complacency

Yes, I know, it's a bit of a negative headline. But you know, I believe there is a place for everything - so that includes negative emotions such as complaining and complacency. It has been a real 'bug-bear' for me lately and it has been coming up a lot. We are all presented with situations all the time where we can choose to say something or do something about things that we are feel are not right or downright wrong - but how often do we actually do this? How often do we rather, choose to 'not create waves' or 'keep the status-quo' or simply, choose not to step into our conflict/confrontation mode. Well, I think the times-are-a-changin'. Now is the time for us to step up, to take responsibility, and to say loudly, strongly, and clearly - No, and to then give the reasons why. For example, I was talking with a friend the other day, who took a friend of hers to lunch to return some favours she had done for her. She said the place they went to was quite expensive, but that they had to wait and hour and a half before they were served, and the food was terrible. She did not say that she had complained about this though. But why not. I believe that by continuing to not say anything, we are breeding more of the same behaviour. When you start giving some thought to this, you will start to see the implications of our not saying anything. The vibe just ripples out, and before you know it we have communities acting the same way - and then governments. Why are we so happy to complain about our governments, but not actually do anything about it. Well we now have a perfect opportunity to complain 'diplomatically' coming up, with the federal election in Australia in August. It is going to be interesting to see how Julia Gillard goes. By the way, a good site to go to that is doing lots of really positive work to get people to become more active about issues that can affect us all is www.getup.org.au. I say, speak up, stand up, and support change.