A few days ago, I had a thought. I am not exactly certain where it came from
but I let it carry out a bit and decided it was interesting enough to me to
share and maybe someone else would find it interesting as well. I remember a few years ago, reading one of
Masaru Emoto’s books on water crystals, he told a story about a diseased
lake. A bunch of people got together and
united to clear the lake of the disease and it worked. They were all focused and concentrated on one
thing, all together, and they solved a problem.
As that thought carried out, it made me think of all the
people I see, friends included, that work hard to raise money to cure a disease
or to prevent something like animal abuse.
Personally, I applaud anyone who fights for something to make the world
better. Whether I am able to participate
or if it is something I believe in or like the way it is done, I support all of
it on one level or another. I’ve seen so
many attempts to raise funds for research, prevention, and so on but what has
it accomplished? What has been
cured? Has abuse stopped? No.
Maybe the problem is that everyone is so disconnected. Everyone is fighting for their own causes,
along with whatever group also supports that same fight, alone or separate or
with smaller groups. Maybe that only
equals one or two people at that lake, with little power to make change. Maybe it is like throwing a handful of water
at a forest fire or like crushing an aspirin and only throwing a couple grains at a headache. Not effective. I’m not saying this
absolutely is the answer but what we’re doing doesn’t seem to make much difference,
does it? At least not by the way people
complain on social media and the fact funds are still being raised in mass
quantity.
So what if we’ve got it all wrong? What if we’re so busy doing what we know how
to do that we’re missing what we could be doing? Instead of attacking each of the individual
problems, what if the answer were broader?
What if we focused on global health instead of breaking off into less
powerful; groups attacking each individual issue? What if we all gathered around the problem,
held hands and could make an impact like that diseased lake?
Just like anything in life, when what you are doing isn’t
working, you have to start looking for alternate solutions and giving things a
try.
Like I said, I am not saying this is absolutely the answer
but, what if…?
What do you think the solution is?
Cheers,
Scott
