Sir, that is an excellent piece. The sub-heading really cought my eye, thought, because it's not just our choices in the tough decisions that "reflect and determine who we are," it's the below-the-radar, day-to-day choices on what some might consider the inconsequential things that do so as well.

Consider all the dicisions you might make in just a single day, whether you're the leader of the free world or the hard-working night janitor at the local school. Do you toss that cigarette butt on the ground or do you find an ashtray? Do you stop at that STOP sign or do you roll through? Do you wait for the WALK sign or do you jaywalk? Do you hold the door for the person behind you or do you just blunder right through? Do you say "thank you" to the cashier at the store or do you pack up and leave? Do you drop that gum wrapper or hold on to it under you can find a trash can?

We think of "touogh decisions" because they can have a major affedct on our lives, and on others' lives. But we make many, many, many much smaller decisions each and every day, and many of those affect others as well. And there's a cumulative effect of all those small decisions, one that we don't often see until it's too late, when we wonder why the beaches or the roadways are so trashy or the air is so foul. How could this have happpened? It happened, not because of the big, tough decisions, but because of the little, "inconsequential" ones, ones thart, with enough of them made badly, do indeed have significant consequences.