Apathy vs. Action

This is another collection of my thoughts on life. I fully intend to put this into action once I finish school, and I will not let anyone stand in my way.

                I have done much watching and observing of how people react and move towards their ideals, and quite honestly, I think it is pathetic. We have a lot of the right ideas, but we are apathetic in how we approach them. We say things like, “Visualize world peace,” or, “Solve world hunger,” but are unwilling to do anything about it. It’s easy to say that we want world peace, it is quite another to get up off our butts and make it happen.

                While I’m on the subject, I think that world peace starts right here in our homes. I do not think we can hope to impose peace on the world if we are constantly fighting among ourselves. I look around me and see many petty arguments, lawsuits, prejudices, and all-around disfunctionality in our society and I find myself asking myself this question: Can’t we all just get along? I mean so what if we don’t agree on everything? That’s the beauty of it in my opinion. If we all had the same opinion on everything, and acted and said all the same things, life would be extremely boring.

                And what about world hunger? There is more than enough food and resources in the world to feed every last person on the planet. The problem is the distribution of it. Most of it is simply used to make the rich richer and the poor poorer. We sit here in America and brutally shut our eyes to what is happening in the rest of the world. Everyday there are many, many deaths from malnutrition and disease stemming from people not having enough healthy food to eat or clean water to drink. It is quite easy to sit here around our dinner tables and give money to this or that charity, and quite another to get off our fat, American butts and go help.

                I do not intend to offend anyone with the way I write, only to motivate. There are too many social injustices in this world, and not enough people to make them better. There are plenty of people who want the right things, but the vast majority is unwilling to participate in the effort to bring them about. And so I leave you with this final, variable statement: Don’t just visualize world peace (or whatever it is that you want for the world), make it happen!

Author's Note

Benjamin Franklin once said, "There are three kinds of people in this world: Those who are immovable, those who are movable, and those who move. This piece is intended to move.