Is despair inevitable? Not if we act with love and hope
It feels like I've launched this publication at a particularly low point for us, as human beings. The news are saturated with atrocities; we are, most of us at least, made to feel unable to change anything, as if everything that happens to us is inevitable.
We know that this is not so. And yet, we wonder what we can do, if anything, to change our plight.
The truth is that we can do more than we can often imagine. From donating to charitable organisations, to saying a good word to a friend who may need to hear it, to getting involved in the world around us ... there is so much we can all do.
Our enemy (if there is such a thing) is the fear of not being able to do anything. Please trust me when I say this: we can do so much. Even, and especially, the little things make an immense difference in people's lives. The main thing is to try, and to not turn away from the challenge, thus remaining detached. It's nothing to do with me, many of us think, and if I bury my head in the sand alike an ostrich, maybe it'll all go away. It of course won't ... not unless and until we do something about it all, and do it with love and with hope in our hearts.
What good have we done today? Let's try not to let a day go by unless we have helped someone, or done something to brighten their and our day - however small the gesture. Once we do overcome our fears, the reward will come to us a thousandfold.
Yes, let's change the world ... one good deed, and/or one kind word, at a time. I cannot think of any other way in which things will actually change.