It is amazingly hard to resist using the word strange to begin this post. I find myself surprisingly attracted to words of the same connotation. Even for the second sentence I had to delete oddly and replace it with a synonym for startling.
Entirely my fault. I knew I would feel nostalgic if I saw the place that person got married at. I'd feel the tears. That person is gone. And... life is precious, we're not going to lose anything by doing whatever we can to help make life easier. Especially the lives of others. What if I die before being able to do anything?
Everyone, especially myself aspires to do things for the society when they have enough money, when they are mature enough, when they are qualified enough. We will never be enough, and when we meet the expectations of the past, new expectations for freedom and free time would arise. Let's face it, if we wanna help the world, we gotta start now. If not, we'll be stuck clueless on how to start our engines in future. First we won't have the time, second we won't have the motivation because we'd be engaged in getting a life for ourselves and settling down in marriage or relationships. Thirdly because we have no base, we did not equip ourselves with a solid foundation on social work to begin anything.
Let's begin now. Why doubt our abilities when our desires burn? That child novelist (Sorry.. your name slipped my fatigued mind at nearly 4am) on TED said that children need to be given the chance, the trust, that push to take risks and learn. Why not us? we may still be children in the things that we want to do, we should give ourselves a chance. Who knows, we might end up the equivalent of a child novelist in the world of social service. Some children's book publishers told that child that they don't work with children, what a contradiction. Same thing.. I doubt NGOs would reject volunteers, they do volunteer work themselves. Even if they do reject some of us, we gotta fix ourselves and try harder cause we wanna serve the people.
Mahatma Gandhi said "Be the change you want to see in people.".
He also believed that peace and enlightenment cannot be attained through inaction but through the course of action. The right action, the one of civilised behaviour, peace. Though some hard blows gotta be taken sometimes.
We can start off by being good in what we are, we gotta be happy and well respected in order to be accepted by people to help them. Then.. we may think, if I'm lovely and perfect to my family, what about those in the streets?? The true test is not when we are faced with challenges to protect and support our own, that is our responsibility that we should honour. However, the true test is when we are required to go out of our way to help others. That's a good Samaritan. It is in how we treat others that shows what we really are. If we cannot have a heart big enough to extend love to others, then how poor a love can we offer our family? our culture? God? How pitifully little.
Hence, help others. Love life. Love lives. Love life living lives. :) Meow...
