How Do We Make Our World A Better Place?
Our World today is in crisis. Be it climate change or COVID pandemic or civil wars. We seem to be hurtling from one crisis to another. We are more and more in conflict with each other – whether at individual level or group level or at country level. All these are manifesting in an increase in our health issues, increase in substance abuse, rabid fundamentalism, increase in terrorism activities, and increase in natural calamities, etc. Is there a systemic problem that we are ignoring or refusing to acknowledge? So, what are the issues that are creating so many conflicts among people, groups and nations? And what can we do to make our World a better place? Please participate in this discussion and share your views.
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0 My views on this:
1. We have become very individualistic. Our “success” is now driven by our individual “success”, measured by our wealth accumulation and power that we derive from various positions that we hold in society and organisation.
2. We have given up on our sense of absolute right and absolute wrong. We are contextualising rights and wrong. Moral Science classes which used to drill into us a sense of right and wrong no longer are taught in class.
3. We have a heightened sense of competition. Most people are displaying “scarce mentality” and hence the increased desire to “get” at the expense of others.
4. We have lost our sense of kindness. We are tired of being taken advantage of and hence do not show kindness enough.
5. There is a heightened sense of inequity in society. More people seem to “get” what they don’t deserve or don’t work hard for. Hence, others may suffer more from “scare mentality” syndrome.
6. More people start with an element of distrust in a relationship, unless proved otherwise, rather than vice-versa.
2870 Our drive to make our World , a better place , needs to be firmly rooted in our conviction that , ” with my contribution , if the world becomes a better place than it is today – I too am a beneficiary of that Enhanced World ! “
Hence our efforts to help a better world is not a favour or just an obligation , but it is intently to our advantage too – since our interests & existence are so intrinscally merged
Having realised that ; the first & biggest contribution towards making the world a better place is , is to work on Self to make ( self ) a Better person than I was yesterday/ am today . This is based on following realisations :
1. I have scope to make a Big difference to my surrounding , including people – which has potential to add positively or negatively . I need to ensure that in the least I do not add negatively
2. Self is the only person / entity on which I can exercise maximum influence for transformation I should not waste time in ‘ transforming’ others , over whom I have no control ; instead invest in self for a positive rub off on the world , I connect with
3. Let me invest in ‘ Understanding’ others , than transforming – as Understanding alone leads to transformation
