New Year’s Revolutions
- January 1st, 2010
- Posted in Andrea . Blog . Culture . Social commentary
- By Andrea
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This year I am resolved not to make any lofty, sentimental resolutions based on how miserably I managed to screw up the last one (although if I was, my first one would probably be never look back on your life at 3am after too much champagne, too little sleep and reading a love letter from a man whose heart you have broken).
At 28 I know there is not much I can do about changing the essential me and, in all honesty, am pretty content with who I am but not necessarily with how that finds expression. So I have decided that 2010 is to be a year of revolutions rather than resolutions.
To this en
d I have invested in a magical little book by Michael Norton entitled “365 ways to change the world.” From globalism and consumerism to health issues to environmental concerns, each page covers a practical way in which every individual can begin making a positive impact on the world around them rather than sitting back and whining in self-centredness and despair.
Today’s assignment was simply to set a target for the change I want to see in the world. Mine is to improve the access that children in the impoverished communities around me have to healthcare, educational support, and recreational facilities so that they can have a chance at a great life.
Archbishop Oscar Romero said:
There is a certain liberation in understanding that we can’t do everything. This enables us to do something and to do it very well.
What are you going to do this year?
You always seem to have a clever quote up your sleeve!
I hope to hear more from your progression in that book. Perhaps you will inspire me as well =)
Jean Gump said “Don’t ever look to the next guy to effect change. Do it yourself.”