A global change can begin with one person.
One action.
One choice.
A global change can begin with envisioning the ideals that we strive towards and the things which are important to us and then LIVING those things. It may not be easy to bring healthy humane food with you, instead of stopping for take-out, but it's worth it. It may not be easy to save up your paper, bottles, and cans and bring them to a recycling center, but it's worth it. It may not be easy to respond with gentleness and understanding when your child is in the midst of a tantrum, but it's worth it.
Think of something you'd like to change, or improve in your life or in the world and work towards it, one step at a time.
Remember that:
Our actions, however small, reverberate.
Our kids mimic what they see – they do what we do.
Imagine If:
Children worldwide grew up not just hearing about recycling, buying locally grown food, eating healthy, treating animals with respect, but grew up actually LIVING IT, watching their parents do it, participating in it? Those things wouldn’t be a question or even some distant ideal or possibility – they would just BE REALITY. It’s how they would live because it’s what they KNOW. It’s how they will interact with their friends, their classmates, their teachers, their future children.
Your action – or inaction – in all things important to you and the world – MATTERS.
If you act with kindness, empathy, and concern for people and animals and the environment around you – your children will do the same.
That’s all it takes. One action. One choice. Make a change. Pick a more challenging thing over the easy - every time you make that decision, it will become more effortless. And it WILL make a difference.
Peace. ☮