Its Easy to Change the World

When you think about it, its so easy to change the world. The tough part is changing the world, and making money.

Changing the world. Who doesn’t want to do it? To change the world is to truly achieve, which is what many would argue (myself included) is the real point of our lives. People always dream of being that person to change the world, to leave an eternal mark on the history of the human race.

Changing the world is so easy.

Seriously, think about it. Take any one thing, and just work at it forever. Spend your entire life solving a problem. There are so many problems out there that exist not because there is no solution, but because there is nobody selfless enough to apply the solution for free. The problem can be anything, big or small. Whether it be an awesome free operating system for the masses (shameless promotion for a personal want ;) or world hunger, if one person truly dedicated their life to making that difference, or imagine, if many people dedicated their lives to making all those differences imagine the world in which we would live! So many problems would be solved. We could live in such a better world.

The problem is, there is no money to be had in this. The tough part is changing the world, and making money. The society in which we live demands that we have money to be able to survive. However, most people don’t “need” the amount of money that they have. Everyone wants that big house, that nice car, the big screen TV. Instead of spending all the time gaining that money for those nice things, what if that time was instead spent on your “masterpiece”. Spend your time changing the lives of others, not bettering your own.

Maybe you’re wondering right now why the world is the way it is? Why don’t we do this already? Well obviously…its in our nature the be selfish. We look out for number one first, because we see that most important. People have long questioned why human nature is the way that it is, and why it seems to tear us apart at times. I’m not a religious person, but what if our purpose is, as the human race, to overcome our own faults? What if we were intentionally given flaws, so that we could eventually become mature enough to overcome them, and once done make a world for ourselves that is better than we could have ever believed through the aforementioned selflessness.

Here is my message to you: rethink your life, and the idea of life as a whole. All it takes is a few people to start this beautiful trend. Live your life at a subsistent level, keep yourself alive and keep yourself happy, but only there. Spend the rest of your life spending effort on all the important things, working on that project that will change the world. I think you’ll find that, in the end, the true satisfaction you will receive in the end will make every moment of it more worth it that you could have ever comprehended.