and a fine sentiment it is. Although, dare I say, I feel a lot of such sentiment can often be ego driven. Or it can be a way of avoiding dealing with ones own personal issues; feeling that one is doing something for the greater somehow makes everything else ok. Take the infamous earth mother Angelina Jolie (and Brad is in on it too), charging forth, ever increasing family in tow, determined to save the world and its heal its woes. However, recent news has demonstrated just how underlying personal issues can be disguised until a personal crisis arrives, like the death of a parent to reveal the real issues. But what this reveals to me, is that we are all part of the broader problem - each contributing our own bundle of issues to the pot bubbling away with issues like extreme poverty aside extreme wealth, environmental deterioration, conflict, disease and so on.
Where am I taking this? Well, in considering the rush to do good for the rest of the world, brought to mind the well used notion - "have the courage to change the things you can, and the grace to accept those you can't". Changing, or healing the world is a big elephant to slap on ones plate - a task that will surely lead to frustration, dis-empowerment and perhaps our own personal distress at times.
One thing that we certainly do have the power to change is ourselves. If everyone focused their energy on sorting their own world and sense of being out first - there would be no need to save the rest of the world, because they would each have done their bit to do so already.
