“Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day.” Sally Koch
In a world where there is so much poverty, hunger, illness, and pain; it sometimes seems impossible to make a difference. Have you ever felt that way? “I am just one person,” you may think, “How can I make a difference in the world?”
You may have given money to a homeless man, just to see him begging on the same corner the next day. Maybe you’ve signed petitions to protect animals or reduced your carbon footprint to help the environment. Still the problems remain. Moreover, each time one problem improves, another one takes its place. Have you really made a difference? Is it even worth trying to make a difference?
“In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us.” Flora Edwards
There’s so much to do—save the whales, feed the children, house the homeless, war on drugs, save the planet, end war, fight cancer. The desire to make a difference disintegrates into feelings of powerlessness as it crashes into the seemingly unconquerable brick wall of problems. Today’s inspirational words are meant to remind you that YOU are an important part of the solution.
When you’re doing all you can and you don’t see significant change, it may feel like a total waste of time, energy, resources and emotions. But that is never the case.
Powerlessness is a figment of the imagination. It is only as real as you allow it to be in your mind’s eye. An attempt to help is never meaningless, never without value. Change and effort, even on the most miniscule scale, always outshine apathy.
No matter what, never give up on helping others. Never allow the problems and the frustrations of the world to overshadow your desire to make a difference.
“Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light.” Norman B. Rice
Even the smallest and outwardly weakest among us are capable of contributing to the betterment of our world. You may not singlehandedly eradicate an issue altogether, yet you can make a difference. You may not see the full extent of your impact in this lifetime, still you make a difference. The difference you make may be small, still you make a difference.
Instead of focusing on failures to bring down the brick wall of problems, just focus on one brick. Focus on doing whatever it is that you are capable of doing—and what you feel good about doing. Every effort, every helping hand, every prayer, every loving thought makes a difference to someone or something in some way.
Maybe you can’t bring about world peace, but you can be an example of peacefulness. Maybe you can’t wipe out the problem of illiteracy in the inner cities, but you can teach a child (or even a few children) to read. Maybe you can’t cure HIV, but your love and respect can help someone cope with the disease.
If you can’t save a village, change the life of one person within that village. If you can’t change a person’s life, bring a better moment to his life. Helping others on any scale is a wonderful gift to the world, but more importantly it is a wonderful gift to yourself. Nothing compares to the feeling of making a difference.
“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” John Wooden
Don’t ever feel so discouraged by the plight of the world that you stop giving, loving, helping, doing your part. Every problem is an opportunity to show your humanity, to do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Every problem helps us all to grow as a whole, as a family filled with love and compassion. Maybe that is the larger reason behind the problems in the first place—to remind us that we are all one. We are one with each other, one with every species, one with Mother Earth, one with the entire Universe.
My friends, I wish you the inspiration to do what you can do today. On tomorrow, there will still be starving children, domestic violence, animal cruelty, global warming, poverty, drug addiction. But if someone is always reaching out to help others, someone is always making a difference. That is exactly what the world needs—today, tomorrow, and throughout eternity.
Every cause isn’t for everyone; yet every cause is for someone. Step up to the plate. Stand up fearlessly and acknowledge that you have the power to make a difference in this world.
“What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.” Albert Pike
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