CHANGING THE WORLD

I would like to share this quotation with you, because everybody want to change the world, but we do not pay attention to our own behaviour:

''When I was a young man, I wanted to change the world. I found it was difficult to change the world, so I tried to change my nation. When I found I couldn't change the nation, I began to focus on my town. I couldn't change the town and as an older man, I tried to change my family. Now, as an old man, I realize the only thing I can change is myself, and suddenly I realize that if long ago I had changed myself, I could have made an impact on my family. My family and I could have made an impact on our town. Their impact could have changed the nation and I could indeed have changed the world''.

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Comment by Eduardo Alvarez on March 1, 2011 at 11:43pm: "Be the change you want to see in the world." Mahatma Gandhi :)

Comment by Silvi Pacheco on March 2, 2011 at 12:23am: Jean! Thanks to share this quotation.I think if we want to see changes in the world, we must to start for doing little changes in ourselves.

Comment by Jean-Baptiste Kattié on March 2, 2011 at 1:44am: @silvi pacheco: You are welcome Silvi

@Eduardo: Thx Edu for this beautiful quotation of Mahatma Gandhi, he is my model.

Comment by Julien Floriot on March 2, 2011 at 3:47pm: That's really a stong quote, Thx for sharing !!

Comment by Tim Blattmann on March 2, 2011 at 4:08pm: Great and entirely right quote! And, to Eduardo's quote, I'd say, no only we've to be the change we want to see, but also that now we're facing more and more global issues, we've to understand that the change won't wait for us, therefore we've to act, we've to do the change we want to see, a change for the better of humanity.

Comment by Sukma Wijayanti on March 3, 2011 at 9:16am: Ha...Ha...Ha... I love this......You're such a great of an old man of thought ^_^ Fortunately, you've been realized it ^_^

I do a 100% agree with you, like i share my words on Elliott's topic discussion, What Does Being a Humanitarian, treating myself as human first and make myself as human like doing something, act, behaviour, have a straight mindset of life and other thing that can build myself as human is an easiest way to do.Start from that i think is just become easily to make other people as human too.Regard as people as one blood, one soul and then have one love that carried each other.

Changing the world by yourself is really a heavy job, but changing our mother earth by all people who do really care about it and have a similarity of a vision of life i think it is a one step at the time to make the world as a better place not just for us as a grown-up but for our great-great-grandchild and the next-next-next generation.Job estaffete...