Don't you just hate when that happens? When somebody tells you a big change is both needed and coming and, suddenly, you have to do something about it? I know. I hate that too. Unfortunately, that's just one of the ways of the world that we all have to learn to come to terms with.
The world is the way it is because you are the way you are. It's that simple. Now, I hear some of you out there waving this off as the rantings of a slightly less than mentally stable individual, but just stop and think about it. You exist completely and independently of everything else and everyone else on this planet? You have not interaction with anything or anyone outside yourself? Of course not. You might get your electricity out other wall socket, but somebody somewhere made it possible for that socket to be installed so that it would deliver electricity. You don't grow, hunt, or produce your own food, even if you may occasionally engage in isolated activities that resemble it. You have family and friends, some closer than others; you have a job, colleagues or co-workers, a boss or clients and customers; you worry about what money you have and what you're going to do with it or where you're going to get more. And every single one of those relationships, both personal and impersonal, play out the way they do because you are who and how you are. Now, granted, we spend a lot of time worrying and hoping and complaining that others ought to change, but somehow they never do, and that simply bothers us to no end. At some point we have to realize that we really can't (and in most cases, shouldn't) be trying to change others. If you want change, you've got to change yourself.
Of course, it could be you don't want change at all. I know some people who are convinced that there isn't a thing about them they need to change. They are as close to perfect as humans can get. When you talk to their friends and family, however, you get a slightly different picture. There are others who will tell you that they have to be one way in this situation and these people and be different in other situations with other people. That sounds like multiple personalities to me, and that's a sure bet for mental problems down the road. The world has enough mental problems as it is. I'd suggest rethinking this approach. And there are lots and lots of lots of folks who will tell you that it doesn't matter. They're my favorite: the avoiders. If I don't acknowledge a problem or if I place its solution outside my own sphere of influence, I don't have to do anything about it. Of course, some of these folks are the ones screaming loudest about "personal responsibility".
Unfortunately, the world is anything but a perfect place, and every single one of us is confronted with challenges and circumstances that we do not like. There are lots of problems to be solved, at all levels of existence, I would add, and we don't know much about how all those things work or where we should start or what we could possibly do ourselves.
And that, dear reader, is precisely my point: if anything anywhere at anytime is going to change in any way, the only opportunity you have, your only recourse, your only option, is to change yourself. But, is changing yourself a "revolution"?
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