One day someone I really appreciate told me:
"The difference between you and me, is that I'm ok with my life and I just want to focus on me and what I want. But you, want to change your life, and you want to change the world. I don't want to change it, and you want to make everything better."
I think he told me that as a critic or to make me feel bad, but instead I felt proud of me, and that if people think that of me I am happy that is the perception I give. Because YES I want to change the world. This world is full of beautiful things, as well as so many awful things that happens everyday, and we just ignore them and do nothing about it.
Humanity is beautiful, the earth is beautiful and the universe that surrounds us as well, why shouldn't we try to improve and make our world a better place to live, for everyone and not just for a few?
We never realize that the world problems are now a matter that should concern everyone, because we are no longer living in a world where nobody knows about the injustice and inequality that occurs in every corner of the world.
We are 7 billions of humans. That is seven thousand millions of humans. (Just to clarify)
Why do we never realize the power that we have? But we leave the responsability to improve the world to our politicians, presidents, governors, ministers, etc.... Instead of us doing something we leave everything to a few that at the end of the day only cares about the sovereignity of their country/empire. The world is ready for us to stand up for many causes that are worth it.
Gender inequality, machism, homophobia, poverty, the huge breach between social classes, better education, wars, religious intolerance, animal abuse, environmental issues, world warming, deforestation, and I can make a really huge list.
The world can be different if everyone of us could concern and try to change one thing every month in our culture, but starting by ourselves. In a year you could change 12 things and make the world a better place for humanity by doing an effort every month.
Leaders and humanitarians such as Mahatma Ghandi, MonseƱor Romero, Princess Diana, Mother Teresa, and others did the change, and the impact of their actions and their activism changed the reality of many. I'm not intending to say that we all should be like them, because their life was full activism, we have many things to do, but there is always room to do something.
If you are a gay person and you live in a first world country, you should speak for those like you who are being killed and being imprisoned and beaten just for being who they are in those countries where extremist religious beliefs rule the society. Be their voice, speak up for them. It hurts to see how many politicians that put their religious beliefs first instead of analazing and thinking about the situation that LGBT population goes through because of people who is blind by their beliefs.
If you are woman and you are strong and can stand against abuse and inequality and speak up, you should share your courage and strength to those girls that are being abuse and that are being treated in a form nobody should; speak for them, stand for them, be a light for them. It is so sad to see a world where the female population is bigger than the male population and still is being out ruled and discriminated by those who think that man are more capable of women.
If you are a man and you are tolerant and you believe in equality and that we all are the same and that you are not better than anybody just because of your gender........speak up against those who believe they are more capable than those who doesn't share their bigoted thoughts about gender superiority.
Those are just some things that you could do and change. It is so shocking to see how our society has evolved in so many good things, but in the other hand it seems that we are going nowhere. There are are many countries that have the power to change so many human rights abuse and discrimination, and be the voice for those who are being smashed in so many places, but since those countries don't have oil, nobody cares about doing something. We are not late to react and to keep that light that makes us humans and that makes humanity so beautiful, we are world citizens, we share the same world, there are not physical frontiers. We are all capable of beautiful things, if just the half of the population could engaged and change something the world would improve so much.
There is light in the world, but we just have to realize that is inside of us and start shining and become a star in a world that really needs more light.