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Glad I saw this site: Any positive ideas about hope and how we can change the world?
I too have realized what this world is really about mostly in this past year. I am 35; and I think I was positively naive for most of my life. When I observe all the more, I realize that this world is very much built on a control grid. It's a fucking prison. I have thought about suicide more in my life in the past few weeks than in any other part of my life. I am seeing a dim light at the tunnel, and I read this blog here which is slowly broadening this light- not sure where it will go. But, maybe there is hope? Any positive ideas about hope and how we can change the world?
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I find helping people to be a great start. The holiday is coming and there are lots of children in need of someone. One year I bought a fairy tale book and went to the children's hospital and read too them. Feels great to give back.
I recommend volunteering
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We can't all make huge changes in the world. We're not all going to start revolutions and end up in the history books. We are all capable of making change, though.
Life isn't so much prison as it is set within strict guidelines. You're free to move within those guidelines and be comfortable (for example, you generally have to work to have food and shelter), but you can do it in your own way. You choose what you do, within certain limits, and you choose how you do it.
There are always ways to put a little of yourself in what you do. I do it by going into everything gung-ho and doing my best. Some rebel a little, or do unconventional things. When viewed from far away, people seem like a homogeneous blob of a species: from close up, even the most bland-looking of populations have their own personalities and ways of navigating the world around them.
But you're looking for positive ideas about hope and change. So am I. That's why I'm here. Maybe I'm just talking to myself half the time, but sometimes I really help people. I use my (sometimes) painful past experiences to help others avoid bad situations, or to deal with ones they've stumbled into. I also work for a non-profit and do my very best to make an impact on the lives of the disadvantaged people I work with. At school, I try to help others where I can.
If you're looking for ways to make a difference in the world, you don't even have to leave your couch. Start out here. Answer a few questions here and there and you'd be surprised how great it makes you feel. Go out into your community and try volunteering. Find a cause you believe in and support it. Do you see a deficiency in support systems already in place? Create your own to fill the gap. Get involved and have fun doing it. Even the smallest things can have a huge impact on a person's life.
I don't believe in God or an afterlife. I do things the way I do because I believe that the only way to be immortal, to leave a permanent imprint on the world, is to touch the lives of others. If you help just one person, you change the route of that person's life. Then the people around them are impacted, and the ripple effect spreads. All we need is that one little agitation to get it started. You can be that agitation... we all can!
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