If We Only Look After Ourselves, We’ve All Lost

Think about the bigger picture.

There are a lot of other people involved. Photo credit: Powerfuels

I’ve never been the kind of person who likes leaving things to chance.

One of the things that I have trouble leaving to chance is the capacity for people to change and become better versions of themselves.

It’s not that I’m a control freak. It’s just that I know the journey of self-change can be grueling and difficult, and it’s a path that I think a lot of people either miss or neglect, to their own detriment.

Externally, I also find that a lot of people, on the other hand, are rather lax about the problems of the world and, if I’m being completely honest, a little selfish when it comes to issues that don’t affect them directly.

Many people don’t seem to care about a problem if it doesn’t directly hurt them.

• If it’s not their money being stolen, they don’t care about theft.
• If it’s not themselves on the streets, they don’t care about poverty.
• If it’s not their child being bullied, they don’t care about bullying.