This year I am writing a blog post for each of the twelve days of Christmas as I have done a few times before. I don’t have a theme this year, so my topics come from what is on my mind that day. Sometimes the posts will be connected and sometimes they will not. Here is the fourth post of this Christmas. It was supposed to be the third, before yesterday’s post about hope spawned from it 🙂
As I wrote yesterday, I have been pondering a lot about how we can make the world better.
We have the power to do this.
In the first post I wrote how we can make the world a little bit better by being mindful of our words. I wrote about my long-lived believe that we can make the world better by doing things for others that matter a lot to them and a little to us. For the second post, I wrote that we can choose who we want to be every day. We can choose to do good with every decision. And yesterday I wrote about hope. Hope is the energy that will drive our actions.
I believe that these are the things we need to change the world and make it better.
Things are bad in the world. We can’t flip a switch and change it right away. We can’t wish it away. What we can do is choose how we act, and we can choose who we are.
“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.
“So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
J.R.R. Tolkien “The Fellowship of the Ring”
We can choose what to do with the time that is given to us; we can choose every day to be someone good. We can choose good in every decision and every action. It won’t be easy, and we won’t always succeed; and then we get a new day with new options. We can do a lot of small things that will build up, make ripples in the water, and become something bigger. Together these small things can create a bigger change. Ripples can spread far; ripples can become a wave; waves can create big changes.
I have been listening to the 12 audiobooks of “How to train your dragon” by Cressida Cowell. Marvelous books that are funny and has important messages. I have 15 minutes left of the last book, and all the pieces are coming together for the finale and closure. Close to the ending there is the following quote, which fits so well with other things in my head:
“Everything we do, you see, has its consequences and repercussions, every kind act, and every bad, every friend we make, and every enemy. Everything is connected.”
― Cressida Cowell, How to Seize a Dragon’s Jewel
Everything we do creates ripples. We might not think that they do, but they all do. As the author, Cressida Crowell has the power to make all the things connected in the dragon books, so they have consequences. We cannot write the story and connect things; we cannot ensure consequences – good or bad.
What we can do is to create those ripples; we can start things of by choosing to do good. By being kind, by doing good, by respecting, accepting and sending love into the world, we can create those ripples.
I have the hope that we can do this, and my hope fuels my actions.
We can create change for the better.
Blogpost for the first day of Christmas 24/25: Making the world a little better
Blogpost for the second day of Christmas 24/25: Who do you want to be?
Blogpost for the third day of Christmas 24/25: Hope is real
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