What if...

Something that I have been thinking about lately, I was thinking about how we become passionate about things in our life. What makes us decide that something is important? Many people today are concerned with the Earth, or going green, there are people involved with spreading awareness about AIDS, Darfur, the war in Iraq, children in sweatshops, homelessness, and hundreds of other problems that we face. Is one problem bigger than the other? I don't think so. So how is it that we dedicate our attention to specific ones and not others?

I think that one thing that helps us to center our focus is when we actually come face to face with the problem. There are several ways that this can happen. We see a news segment, photographs, a documentary, or possibly hear a speaker (just to name a few). Our attention is captured, and it becomes real to us. Sometimes I think we have to see things to even have a glimpse of what other people are really enduring. I think that we are so privileged here in America that we take advantage of it, and don't really understand how lucky we are to have everything that we do.

I don't have the answers to the world's problems, I can't fix anything. All I can really do is dream, and hope that some are willing to dream with me, and take action. I think it is important that we recognize those that need our help, and we do something about it. I also don' t think that we have to go overseas to India to help people. We all have different passions, and I think there is a reason for that. We have a lot of ground to cover. What the world be like if we all cared a little bit more passionately and did something about it?