Maybe I’m a little late for the party, but one of the biggest problems of today is not the lack of happiness, lack of resources, lack of world peace or clean air – it’s the lack of motivation to do ANYthing someone else isn’t pushing you to do!
Think about it. How many of us out there do the research before buying anything we don’t deem to be a “big” purchase? Not many, that’s how many. Most tend to wait for advertisements to tell us what to buy because it’s convenient – you don’t have to think about it as much if someone already tells you what to do. Or we just go for the cheapest thing out there if frugal is on the menu for the day. But just as well, that involves LESS thinking, LESS effort because we aren’t motivated to go the extra mile. So if we can’t even be bothered to look on the back label of the product to see if this can of sauce/soup/whatever is actually more nutritious for us than the one next to it for 10 cents less and with less marketing dedicated to it, how can we EVER be bothered to get our butts of the couch and CHANGE THE WORLD???? Are you serious????
Preposterous! Our ancestors would have KILLED to have the opportunities we have of today. We have it GOOD over here, so please look around you and notice just how good YOU have it. We have lots of social programs and charities dedicating precious resources to those that have less than others in our society. We can have a vote now! And that includes women too, which we now take for granted, but once upon a time, feminists really struggled for that right only for us now to throw our ballots into the garbage bin instead of the voting bin on the election date. We have free public internet in libraries and other public places (and the computers aren’t restricted to specific task like job search either). We have social networking coming out of the wazoo over here! If we wanted to change the world TODAY, it’s RIGHT over here! At the tip of your fingers!
WHAT’S KEEPING YOU?
You are dragging yourself down and you can’t blame anyone else out there for it. There are people out there utilizing all they can get to get their message across, to be heard, to make a difference. And you are still waiting for someone to come into the room with an inspirational speech “Go Team Go” for you to want to do something just for a minute and then say “No Thanks” and go back to your ordinary grey day on the couch.
NO ONE will save you if you don’t save yourself.
And no one will make any choices for you either unless it benefits them at this particular junction of your life somehow.
Figure out what is important to you RIGHT NOW and go do it. If you don’t, no one else will. If you don’t, you are withholding something very important from the universe that had brought you so much already to your life.
Be a blessing to society, not a pest.
