How To Create A Better World Essay

‘’Let him who would move the world, first move himself.’’ – Socrates
What is essentially being said here, is that before we can work on creating a better world, each of us must start with changing ourselves.
You can see that the world can never truly begin to change until each of us begins to change ourselves, through our thoughts, acts and behaviours.
So how can we create a more loving world if we ourselves are performing unloving acts, towards others?
How can we bring about a more compassionate world if we cannot even show it for those around us?
How can we bring about a world of more trust, if we continue to lie ourselves?
How can we begin to reduce violence in the world, if we continue to show anger and hatred, the very source of violence, to those around us?

But we can each do our part in the creating of a better world. And it starts with changing ourselves.

Have you ever noticed how so many protests never change anything?
This is because people go into them unchanged. Sure they may be very knowledgeable and passionate about what they are protesting. But they do it with anger and hatred for those who have wronged them.
They preach peace, yet they scream with immense anger and hatred.
The very energy, they are trying to rid.
And this is not to say that protesting is not effective. For some of the greatest changes in history have come about, through protests. The difference here however, is that these protests were not done in anger and hatred. Instead their underlying principle was love.
As Martin Luther King once said:
‘’ Non-violence means avoiding not only external physical violence. But also internal violence of the spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.’’ – Martin Luther King
Or as Gandhi put it:
‘’Hate the sin. Love the sinner.” – Mahatma Gandhi
In other words, resist the wrongful acts of another, but do not do it with anger or hatred in your heart.
To quote Martin Luther King