I filmed my mom returning a shopping cart and then wrote an essay about how it’s a metaphor for leadership in America

Except from full essay:

Because maybe the shopping cart isn’t really about the shopping cart.
Maybe it’s about something much bigger.
Every successful society depends on what I now think of as an invisible contract.
Holding the door for someone carrying too much.
Picking up litter that isn’t yours.
Letting another driver merge.
Returning a lost wallet.
Helping someone change a tire.
Putting your phone away when someone is speaking.
Returning the shopping cart.

My man. That’s deep.