Reading Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s words remind me of very memorable words from someone else. She said that no matter what happened she still believed that that was some good in people. This was from a girl whom had undergone human nature at its worst. Anne Frank believed in good until she died prematurely in a concentration camp. This thought process was very similar to the works of Dr. King.
Were the dreams of these prominent figures of peace misguided or hopeful? I feel they were hopeful. As long as someone somewhere still believes in mankind, what gives the rest of us reason not to? Why does it take a leader to come forward with positive thoughts and not the whole of the human race? Have people lost that type of flair and really do whatever they can to avoid confrontation? These days who knows what will come of confronting someone, or a nation. There are so many ways to kill an idea or a person with ideas and it seems that people as a whole are afraid. Afraid to die, afraid to lose everything they have, afraid to go after something that will not go anywhere.
A common phrase I heard from people when Ross Perot was running for president was something about how they would vote for him if it wasn’t wasting a vote. Wasting a vote? Are these people for real? If all the people who thought they would waste a vote voted for him who knows what the country would be like today. How is it possible to waste something you weren’t paying or being paid for in the first place. The worst thing that could come out of voting is being out voted. But wouldn’t it be nicer to be able to say you voted for what you believed in because you believed in it instead of voting for who you thought would win?
At that, what happens if somehow other people agreed and he won! Wouldn’t you be ecstatic?! The best part is, if he doesn’t win and the country really starts having the problems, you can honestly say it isn’t your fault.
People are just too skittish. Maybe laziness might also have to do with a lack of radical shakers and movers? Everyone thinks that someone else will take care of 'the problem' whatever that problem might be. Or worse, they don’t see point just like wasting a vote. Why waste my efforts trying to change something that never will? Well it won’t with that attitude. There seems to be a lack of care and motivation unless it is directly hitting you personally. I would love to see someone stand up and gain notoriety for making positive changes in the world rather than being tonight’s news. Everyone seems to be so focused on what everyone else is thinking that they fail to think for themselves and let the media dominate their thoughts, which is why we buy things the way we do and allow ourselves to pay it.
Another problem is waste. People don’t care to waste whether it be food or gas or clothing, you name it people find a way to throw it away. It really is a shame that people care so little about others and the world around them that they just destroy and consume in such a great quantity that the environment can’t keep up. Is the technology we have worth letting our environment go? This is the only earth we know of that we have use of so why is it coming in second place? Shouldn’t keep it beautiful always been the center of our attention? Like I said earlier people will only do something once it starts affecting them. If an asteroid was coming to earth at an unstoppable rate and we were going to lose our planet you better believe people would care then. They would go to the ends of the earth to find a way to keep it, just to have it destroyed again.
A good example of that is after 9/11. That day the country came together in a patriotic hug. We held that hug for about ten seconds and let it go. It was just a matter of months before we were back to our normal selves because the tragedy was over, time to get back to life now. Of course there were people forever altered by it, but for the rest of the population, life goes on. It was just a bump in the road. What road? Why is life a road getting to a destination that isn’t there? Why does it have to be linear? Life should be perceived as circular. In the middle is a big park where our lives are lived out and there is no such thing as a bump in the road, the road doesn’t exist. If everybody could change their thinking, the world could change.
Be the change you wish to see. I tell that to anyone I hear complaining. You can’t expect for things to be perfect if you aren’t perfect, and you’re not. If you want to see a change, be that change! Do what you need to do to reach that goal. If you don’t, no one is going to do it for you. You have to really want it to get it. This is where the circles and squares come in from Black Elk. He understood the concept of the law of attraction and mindsets are put together by the environment you create for yourself. People don’t understand that the world could be how ever they wanted it, if they wanted it bad enough. Every person had the power to create the world they live in, they just don’t have the motivation to do it. That really is unfortunate that it has come to something so little and not even ones own self can motivate enough to make that change. Something important to always remember is, if it is to be it is up to me.
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