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What am I doing to change the world? - 2009/08/20 06:08
I often wonder if anything I am doing is actually changing the world. How do we know if we are changing the world? Are there signs? What kind of signs?
So I begin to look at different decisions I have made in my life and ask: is this somehow changing the world? How do I know? Do I need to know if it is changing the world?
Environmental
Is not driving in my car, and taking public transportation, or riding my bike going to change the world?
Is not eating bananas anymore or salmon changing the world?
Social
Is taking the time to be with people, to listen, to laugh, to create together going to change the world? Am I actually capable of doing this?
Is living with other people and sharing dinner and conversation, my dreams and imaginations, my opinions changing the world?
Is learning to listen somehow going to change the world? Or better understanding and knowing myself?
Financial
Is only living on what I need and no more, no less going to change the world? Does it matter where my income--which puts me beneath the poverty line in this country but makes me relatively wealthy in others--comes from?
I am filled with this question of wondering how am I, as an individual, able to really change the world? Yes, I am part of a movement and it's incredible. But what about people who are not part of movements, who are not engaged with initiatives, who are not asking these questions? Do we have to be asking these kinds of questions to change the world?
Is changing the world really in the thinking? Or is it in the doing?
I am just wonder-filled and curious to know: how do you know if you are changing the world, or if you are even close to doing so? What does change look like in your life?
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