Hearing about bystanders at George Floyd's trial wishing they had done something and the guards that watched an old lady be beaten and did nothing, I take inspiration from Aristotle. "If you want a virtue, act as if you already have it and then it will be yours. Change comes through action. Act first, then become."

Virtues don’t come through simply by thinking about them. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

Teddy Roosevelt, also lived by this principle of acting in order to become. He would thrust himself into doing with his full force and vigor just because he was afraid. Teddy said "There were all kinds of things I was afraid of at first, ranging from grizzly bears to ‘mean’ horses and gun-fighters; but by acting as if I was not afraid I gradually ceased to be afraid."

I think it's important now more than ever that we be brave, if you see or hear something...say or do something. Let's take care of each other.