There are a few people that read and/or care about this blog, and I don't want to disappoint them by making only one post on it. I know it's been rather overdue, I know, and I apologize to those who have been awaiting another post from me.
Tonight, right when I was trying to sleep, I had an idea that hit me. A very simple idea for a website. Let me preface this by an explanation of its purpose. It seems to me that one the problems of progression towards things like world peace or just a better future is that people become rather complacent and start to think that others don't care. So why not show them that there are others who do, and show them why? Show them that there are plenty of people in the world that care about it and it's future just as much as you. Perhaps you could share the inspiration for change that we seem to lack now, spread it around in a way that millions of people (at least potentially) could see in an instant.
My idea is this...have a website just for people to post quotes by, or tell stories about people that made them believe we can be better than we are as a human race. Allow them to post a picture of the person who said or did it, if they have one and if they so wish. Then, as people post, it loads into a database that's accessible to everyone with an internet connection. The main page would be very simple. It would just be (for the most part) a link so you can post yourself, and one story/quote/explanation at a time. So people who visit the site immediately get hit by something that gives us hope that the world doesn't have to be so terrible, and there are others in it that truly care about how it turns out, and what road it goes down. These people don't have to be famous, they don't have to be a John Lennon, or a Mother Teresa, they can be "ordinary" citizens of the world. You don't have to be a historical figure to make a difference you know. ;) So maybe tell me what you thin, and if someone reads this that can help me make it, let me know please!
-Zan
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Saturday, November 1, 2008
My First Step
The hardest parts in life for me, have always been taking the first step in something. This blog, this post, more specifically, is no different than anything else I have ever started doing. However, I feel that on some level I must make not only this post, but more, I don't know how many, but I must write more. My only real hope is that at least one person reads this, and they might not be directly inspired by it, but they begin to think of the things I do, in a more broad sense than they ever have before.
Every day in the news, you can not only read about, but SEE others in this world that suffer. I could recite to you more numbers and statistics of people that suffer needlessly in this world than I could ever dream of really telling you about. Not only people, but animals, plants, and insects as well. Our Earth is in a downward spiral that I fear we may never see the end of, if we don't change not only the way we look at the world, but how we act towards it and it's inhabitants.
I have never told this to anybody before, but if you told me to answer truthfully the question of "What do you want to do when you get older and out of college?" I would simply reply, "I want to ease the suffering I see all around me." I don't pretend to believe I can do it alone, nor do I want to. The problems of this planet require all the help that people can give, and if I can inspire people to do that...well, it will give me hope that I can inspire more, and will continue trying.
What I see is not a world of full wars, pollution, crime, hate, suffering, anger, bigotry, racism, and unnecessary death, but a world that is full of people willing to fight against all those things, openly and aggressively! A world that unites itself in a singular cause made up of many smaller ones. A world where we can maintain our borders, but extend the feeling of unity past them. Past the borders of ourselves, our neighborhoods, states, and even countries. Where the place we grew up in is just that. Not a reason to kill another human, not a reason to create weapons, and certainly not a reason to hate somebody because the words on their birth certificate do not match the ones on yours. I don't want anyone ever to erase neighborhoods and countries from any map. I merely wish that the people in them, can extend their sense of togetherness past lines that only exist in our minds, on pieces of paper, but not in reality.
There's a very old expression "Two steps forward, one step back." I believe that as a human race, if we can extend our individual senses of togetherness past wherever we were born, or live, we will never have to take a step back again. As a species we can accomplish many great things, but for the problems we face today, it will take more than one neighborhood, one county, one state, or one nation, to solve them. For these problems, we need one world, and all the people in it. Martin Luther King Jr. dreamt, John Lennon imagined, and I not only believe, but I KNOW we can do this. If only we learn to take two steps forward, and zero steps back.
-Zan
Every day in the news, you can not only read about, but SEE others in this world that suffer. I could recite to you more numbers and statistics of people that suffer needlessly in this world than I could ever dream of really telling you about. Not only people, but animals, plants, and insects as well. Our Earth is in a downward spiral that I fear we may never see the end of, if we don't change not only the way we look at the world, but how we act towards it and it's inhabitants.
I have never told this to anybody before, but if you told me to answer truthfully the question of "What do you want to do when you get older and out of college?" I would simply reply, "I want to ease the suffering I see all around me." I don't pretend to believe I can do it alone, nor do I want to. The problems of this planet require all the help that people can give, and if I can inspire people to do that...well, it will give me hope that I can inspire more, and will continue trying.
What I see is not a world of full wars, pollution, crime, hate, suffering, anger, bigotry, racism, and unnecessary death, but a world that is full of people willing to fight against all those things, openly and aggressively! A world that unites itself in a singular cause made up of many smaller ones. A world where we can maintain our borders, but extend the feeling of unity past them. Past the borders of ourselves, our neighborhoods, states, and even countries. Where the place we grew up in is just that. Not a reason to kill another human, not a reason to create weapons, and certainly not a reason to hate somebody because the words on their birth certificate do not match the ones on yours. I don't want anyone ever to erase neighborhoods and countries from any map. I merely wish that the people in them, can extend their sense of togetherness past lines that only exist in our minds, on pieces of paper, but not in reality.
There's a very old expression "Two steps forward, one step back." I believe that as a human race, if we can extend our individual senses of togetherness past wherever we were born, or live, we will never have to take a step back again. As a species we can accomplish many great things, but for the problems we face today, it will take more than one neighborhood, one county, one state, or one nation, to solve them. For these problems, we need one world, and all the people in it. Martin Luther King Jr. dreamt, John Lennon imagined, and I not only believe, but I KNOW we can do this. If only we learn to take two steps forward, and zero steps back.
-Zan
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