Are we not all human?

The thing about life is that you can never predict how it will turn out or trace the steps you will take to a t. If you can, then I urge you to reevaluate your life and turn a page that will perhaps lead you to a new and improved lifestyle. The world never stops changing, and always wants for improvement. The more that I delve into my passions the farther removed I feel from the world, yet the more I am striving to improve the world around me. I wonder if this is the way it ought to be. The more true you are to yourself, your real, untainted, lacking purely selfish motive self, the more you will impact your environment. There are too many lives that are floundering, not because of personal stories or decisions, but simply because of the world that exists. The personal struggles and recoveries from bad decisions exist as well, but maybe if you survey the situations that are without any personal fault some of the cynism and walls will come down to reveal a heart that is desirous of reaching out and touching people, not because we know them or we love them, but simply because their blood is the same blood that runs through us. Humanity. Hindrances from war, disaster, egocentric behavior, greed...none can erase the common bond we all share.

World peace, environmental rest, Poverty, none of these issues can be solved with a single act. But none of them are any closer without one. Single acts together can equal change. Whether it impacts one person or many. Let's not let doing nothing push humanity in the wrong direction.

When you look into a child's face and they are thirsting for education, support, and an equal chance to, simply put, make their life better, than if you care whether they are legal, Muslim, yellow, or even a right-minded conservative, you are doing something wrong. You don't have to be a full-time volunteer. You don't have to be a bleeding heart. Just take one day, one moment, to ask what is more important. Self-fulfillment or just fulfillment of a life worth breathing in. Just open your heart and see what comes out. You might find something you can do for others that you had never even thought of. And in the process you might fill a few missing pieces in your own life. Cliche as it might be, joy comes from giving, and knowledge that cannot, cannot, be bought.

This is as much to myself as it is to anyone who might read this.... It is unfortunate that it is so difficult a subject matter.