How do YOU define a
positive impact? For me, it means making the community around you a better
place for all living things in it, like picking up trash/recycling more,
helping the homeless, planting extra trees, and more! Even if it isn’t on the
scale of saving the planet, it will still go a long way.
Did
you know that the word “team” is an acronym? It stands for TOGETHER EVERYONE
ACHIEVES MORE. This is entirely true if you are helping to put a
good footprint in your community, city, etc. One can do the minor things, but a
hundred minor things turn into a major one. In the words of Helen Keller,
“Alone we can do so little, together we can
do so much.”
For quite a few years,
every time I had a birthday party, instead of having the guests bring gifts, I
would ask them to contribute the gift money to the charity organization A Life
A Time, dedicated to helping children with medical problems in the more
impoverished areas of China. Every party, we helped one specific child to do
surgery or fit him with prosthetic limbs. In this manner, me and the guests, as
a team, helped make the lives of five children many times better.
We as humans have enough
problems on our own, but think about the environment! We litter, pollute, and
treat Mother Nature like a lump of mud in our “perfectly clean” lives. I have
already stopped using plastic straws after hearing of a sea turtle getting one
stuck in its nose. Even an act as small as reducing the use of plastics can
make our world a better place.
Attitude plays an
important role in this sort of stuff. If your attitude says that you don’t
care, it will hold you back from making that needed positive change. I believe
it can even affect the country you live in, because attitude is contagious. It
can spread like the stealthiest germ, across towns, states, and later, nations.
Making the changes
yourself is hard for starters, but inspiring others is even more challenging.
Each and every person has different beliefs, strengths, weaknesses, ifs, buts,
and what ifs. I believe the person who is a great leader is the person who can
spread their ideas. With persistence, eventually, people will listen to your
ideas.
We are like magnets, and
if we have the potential to attract positive things, then our friends might
feel our magnetic field and attract positive things as well.
