“Masks only make a tiny difference,”
a friend told me yesterday.
They might only make a tiny difference
but that tiny difference
taken every day
multiplied by three years
has resulted in me
only having had COVID once
while my friend, a non-mask-wearer,
has had it three times.
Those multiple infections
means he can no longer walk
around the block
without needing a rest.
(And yet he still mocks people
who wear masks.)
Small actions make a difference
over time.
I pick up a bit of garbage
every day.
Our neighborhood,
years later,
is now quite a bit cleaner
than neighborhoods located
close to ours.
I post an extra promo
on social media
every day.
My sales have stayed level
while the sales
of many writing buddies
have dropped.
Little actions matter.