Setting an example is a rare opportunity.
Not everyone is granted the chance to be seen while upright, just, credible—and believed.
For most, like soccer players caught in close-up after a play, it happens they are only caught on camera while spitting… or with a finger in their nose.
Setting an example, then, doesn’t have much to do with what we are, but with how we appear, in the exact moment when, by pure chance, someone looks in our direction.
It’s true: it doesn’t correspond to what we really are.
Perhaps it represents it—but only for an infinitesimal fraction of time.
When in doubt, let’s try not to make a bad impression anyway.
Let’s strive to show our best side.
The worst one—with our deplorable vices, swear words, anger, and all the ugliness of humanity—is there anyway.
Let’s take it for granted, but let’s not make it a flag.
Not because we are hypocrites or want to deny that it is part of us.
But because… children are watching us.