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Originally Posted by ZHereford  Sunnybayes,
To be honest, to be able to be in a position to save the world or make any significant changes we must start with ourselves. We must be an example of that which we want to affect.
In the words of Socrates: "To move the world, we must first move ourselves". |
Thanks ZHereford.
I think I am done working on myself. Now I want to figure out and be creative about how to make significant change.
yes, I agree ZHereford. Before you can contribute to society in a helpful way you've got to have your bare necessities like food and water and environment taken care of so that those resources can support you so that you can in turn help support society. I'm lucky because I was randomly born into the United States, and lucky to have good parents to set me in the right direction. But if I were not lucky to have been born in the United States or anywhere else in the developed world and instead I was born in Africa in a poor country then I would not have time to sit by my laptop computer to think about my inner self. The only thing that I would be able to do would be to scrounge around for food and water. Since I'm lucky to have been born here and reach this level, I feel like I have some responsibility to help other people reach that point of being able to change themselves so that the can be happy to help others.
The reason that I am now able to be creative and type these two post is because I've refilled my social tank by going out and having fun the entire day yesterday... so having fun has actually led me to being able to get more work done, and that the only way I've realized that having fun is actually the right thing to do is because like you said, I've worked on my inner self to discover myself in the last 4 months. And another paradox, if I don't continue to work on finding my purpose then I'll in fact be sucked in to not having direction and for working for a company that is lead by a CEO that is only concerned with being happy in the wrong way, that the CEO think that perhaps if he made just a billion dollars more then he'd become a bit more happy... or perhaps I've gotten it totally wrong...