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I posted a few exchanges yesterday online because it seemed like the general mood of society took at three point dip temporarily. Might have been the star alignments, the oil spill, or some other proximate cause but I offered up this advice:
"I think that we should all live our dreams and only we can make those dreams happen! So many times we find ourselves waiting for something to happen instead of being the force to make it happen. It might not be easy, it might not be quick, but I tell you we can all make it happen if we really want to."
I guess my problem with so many people is that they withdraw, let depression hit becoming unproductive, or just isolate in general to one single issue to the destruction of everything else around them. Take a step back and start with your own community and find a local community calendar and then get out and start to do things. Reconnect with friends. Reconnect with family. You would be surprised how many people you can really help just by being out in the public sharing ways to make things better. Advocacy efforts can really only be successful if your advocacy focuses on truly building better communities. Better communities, better education, better interaction. It's like a speech I gave years ago at the Flint City Council Meeting... "individuals come together to make families, families come together to make neighborhoods and communities, and neighborhoods come together for their government." If any of those links are weak everything that comes after them will be flawed or weak too.
Let's build healthy communities to solve the problems that are plaguing society. It will be more fun.
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