Franz Josef Glacier, South Island, New Zealand – 22nd November 2009
It is easy to assume my actions and choices are insignificant when I view myself as one individual amongst seven billion others. What is the point in changing my behaviour if no one else does. It will be insignificant. Nothing will change.
That is not strictly true.
Nothing will change if I do nothing, it can’t. The only change I can see, is to the world that I look at. I am the biggest part of that world so if I change then it is significant, it is also relevant.
People change when something is made relevant to their life, their world, when they can no longer shelter in their ignorance. To understand that doing nothing is a choice and like all choices it has consequences.
I am guilty of sheltering, of doing nothing, of being a prisoner to my procrastination, I know this. Yet it seems easier to get by this way. The consequences of my inaction are stored up to be delivered back to me one day in the future.
I know, therefore, that I must learn, I must educate myself, so I can make decisions that I can stand by and answer to that future.