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Originally Posted by Prudence
important pondering of the day:
i'm wondering if it's an embarrassing case of ego to imagine that I could solve any of the world's problems. And if it's not, I'm wondering if it's inexcuseable apathy that I've haven't done so.
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That is an important ponder.
I've pondered that before, but in this form - I realized that if I wanted to...if I really, really wanted to....I could be another Martin Luther King or Golda Meir or Mother Teresa. If I dedicated my life to change, I could do something, if not on their scale, then pretty damn close - or at least I could be someone important's right hand man.
But dedicate my life to something like that? Possibly get murdered for a cause? Live and eat and breathe it? I'm sorry, I'm just not that selfless a person.
So I accept that I'm not going to change the world. I'm not willing to toss away my life for it.