Make your Bed, Change the World
A wise man once said: if you want to change the world, start by making your bed in the morning. At the time, people mocked him for it. They called it ridiculous. Small. Beneath the moment. Some called him a charlatan; surely someone serious about changing the world had bigger things to attend to than making their bed. What if that wasn't a stupid, small thing to say? What if it was actually one of the truest things anyone has said about how change really happens? So many of us look out at the world and feel a kind of helpless anger. We watch Gaza. We watch Sudan, Ukraine, the parts of Nigeria where children are being kidnapped from their own communities. We watch poverty tighten its grip even here in the so-called first world. We watch politicians who no longer seem to pretend they care. And something in us goes numb, because the scale of it is so much bigger than we are. Some of us don't stop at numb. We move past helplessness into action; we join causes, march, start ...