What am I doing to Better Society?
Published on February 2, 2005 By NotSoSmellySarah In Philosophy
I'm trying to think of my gym class as a mere lesson in social darwinsim. I hate gym, I still argue that I am athletically challenged. Like i really care that i can't hit a stupid ball over a stupid net. It's such an idiotic waste of my time. I mean I know they want to to be healthy, but please. Anyway, my P.E. class has all the basic princples of natural selection, the biggest dumbest jocks and the cutest athletic girls go first. Then the mediocre, and then well the people like me. I am trying to remain postive but it's really hard when only three of the thirty two kids in the class know of my existance.

In astronomy today, we talked about Einstein and Newton and how much they contributed to the science/math world, and how they changed the way EVERYONE looks at things. I'm not a genius so it frustrates me to know that I probably will never get to do that. I want to change the world. It is my biggest aspiration in life. I want to help people, but I'm not sure how to, because i don't have a lot of reasources. I look at high skool and all the pettyiness and i wonder if people know that around four million men and women have died in the congo over in africa in six years, and we're turning our backs on them. That genocide still occurs. That pedophiles have been taking advantage on the vunerable children for pornography in sri lanka after the tsunami, and we are doing nothing. We would rather sit back in our comfort zones in our little world that we have made for ourselves and ignore hurt and hunger. We reading about the holocaust in conkel. I gives me great pain to think that america did nothing.

As much as I want to make the focus of my life, other people's lives. Stupid things keep getting in the way.

Comments
on Feb 03, 2005
You'll be able to change the world in your own way. Even if a person doesn't have the greatest brain, muscles, or resources he or she can still change the world around them, if you can make a difference in just a few peoples' lives then at least you've done something. Don't set your goals higher than you can jump....you'll be able to make the world change, even if its just a small part...but that doesn't mean you can't keep on trying to make a big difference.

~Zoo
on Feb 04, 2005
ok think of it this way ,your "world " is not the preeps and jocks ! its your friends ! and you changer their lives everyday ! and thats what counts ! i know you changed my life ! more than you'll ever know ! and that is what is special ! and i once hered a story about this girl , she was going to jump of the bridge and coment suicid , but.. she says that if one persons smiles at me on my to the bridge then i wont jump !!! so all it took was one smile , one hi , one how are you , one you look nice .... you know what im getting at ! well no one said hi know one even gave her the time of day to smile at her ! so one of your great big bubble smiles dose more than you think !!!! i hope that helped atleast a little bit !
b-4 you concer the world sit back and work on what is in front of you ! just like you cant eat your desert before your dinner !!! look at it that way for right now !!!
~rissa
on Feb 05, 2005
"A stick alone will break. A bundle of sticks stands strong."

"As an individual, we can not do great things, just beautiful small things." - Mother Teresa

Sarah, your compasion warms my heart, but sometimes, it's the truth to say that people do care, but they care by themselves. As one person, you can't get much done, but as a collective, as a group, so much more can be accomplished. Newton and Einstein and people like them are people that are as rare as the things that they have done and will do. Stupid things always get in the way, but compassion is a gift given to you by God. Your task is to find what he wants you to do with that compassion, whether it be helping your friends through their tough times, or by working through the Red Cross, or just by collecting cans for the food pantry.

What you do is special. Just do beautiful small things, and some day, you will see the final picture of the work you have done.

Alex