Be a change...

By Vichara

Regardless of your position in life, your status amongst the rich and famous, the powerful and the meek, we are all comprised of the exact same chemical combination to produce this breathing, thinking, talking humanoid being. Some will abuse this presence while in their lifetime and others will ignite the compassionate element and try to leave this world a little bit better. Face it, we will all die at some point, wouldn’t you want to use this small amount of time that has been given to you to make a difference in the world? Even in a small unselfish way, it’s up to you.

dross • \DRAHSS\ • adjective
1 : the scum that forms on the surface of molten metal
2 : waste or foreign matter : impurity
3 : something that is base, trivial, or inferior

Example Sentence:
The critic complained that the movies released after Oscar season were just so much dross.

Did you know?
"Dross" has been a part of the English language since Anglo-Saxon times; one 19th-century book on Old English vocabulary dates it back to 1050 A.D. Its Old English ancestors are related to Germanic and Scandinavian words for "dregs" (as in "the dregs of the coffee") -- and, like "dregs," "dross" is a word for the less-than-desirable parts of something. Over the years, the relative worthlessness of dross has often been set in contrast to the value of gold, as for example in British poet Christina Rossetti's "The Lowest Room": "Besides, those days were golden days, / Whilst these are days of dross" (1875).