How YOU, yes you, can change the world: A thread.
Waiting for the world to change is an fools errand. It will change, but your Interaction with it is exceptionally short and it has a momentum you can’t control.
So here are a couple of things that you can do it make it better:
Waiting for the world to change is an fools errand. It will change, but your Interaction with it is exceptionally short and it has a momentum you can’t control.
So here are a couple of things that you can do it make it better:
1. Provide people with the same choices you want to have: who to vote for, how to believe, alternative perceptions , counter experiences, who they love and who they are.
2. Don’t insist that everyone agree, support or endorse your choices. Be confident in them and create a world that reflects them.
But don’t believe they are right for everyone else.
But don’t believe they are right for everyone else.
3. Fight for the life and agency of every human being. From the moment we are conceived until we draw our last breath, we matter. Not a single one of us is expendable. To fight for life, and agency for everyone is justice.
4. Acknowledge that choices have consequences and accept their impact on our own lives. In every situation, we STILL have the power to choose our response, and it will impact our future.
5. Understand that there will always be pain and suffering, and take responsibility for sharing that burden with those around you. Not the government. You.
Be kind, not nice. See others. Acknowledge others and sacrifice for others. Not because you have to, but because you can.
Police your campsite. Vow to leave this world a little better, cleaner, more beautiful because you were here.
These are not things that come to us easily. We are selfish, lazy, narcissistic and insistent on our own way. But we don’t have to be. That’s just the path of least resistance.
Two final thoughts. If you haven’t had a chance to read any Viktor Frankl, do so. He elevates our humanity. He urges us to escape our transactional nature, journey towards self awareness and embrace who we can be despite circumstance.
And finally, one of the most important CS Lewis principles: Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it is thinking of yourself, less.
Humans the only creatures on earth with the ability to live aspirationally. We have so much. I am grateful, and I will do whatever I can to not simply waste it all trying to change everyone else.
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