Thursday, July 28, 2005

Impact

I wonder what kind of impact we leave on our world. I want to have a positive one that helps shape the lives of others in whatever way I can. I don't want to miss out on any opportunities that are provided for me to have an impact on this world and on the individual lives of others. I wonder how many opportunities I have squandered by being so preoccupied with myself that I just can't see them. I have such a heart to do some good in this world. It can be overwhelming thinking that I am just one person, but I know that I can have an impact. Perhaps not one that causes me to be famous, but that's not necessarily what I want. In fact, I think fame would suck! But I do want to be the kind of person that those who I come into contact with remember me as someone who mattered and had a positive impact.

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11 Comments:

  1. Anonymous said...
    I'd like to think that i have jumped at the opportunities that have come my way also, but sadly i know i haven't. I can't really justify to myself why i haven't either.
    I'd like to think also that i've had a positive impact to the people around me. I offer my advice to any who listen and to some who don't want to listen (cos i feel they need to hear it even if it hurts our friendship in someway), and i feel that it is usally pretty good advice. The only problem is, i don't really use my advice for myself, which i know would really improve things for me.
    When a opportunity comes along to help others and i don't act, i hate myself for days even weeks after. But the only thing i can do is learn from that and next time give my time and energy to help anyway i can.
    I don't mind if people don't know that i've helped them, some might never know, but i get the satisfaction in knowing i have made a difference.
    Dboy said...
    Hahaha... that's one of the things that's great about you, Paul: your willingness to be honest.

    Much easier to give advice than take it, absolutely. However, I love it when I'm talking to someone else about their problem, and the stuff I'm saying is so relevant to myself, that I get all revved up to go and change my life too :)

    Guilt is a terrible thing. I reckon that guilt is often the cause of us missing opportunities to help others, cos we're so selfishly caught up in our own self-hate, that we don't look outside ourselves to see where we can be blessing others.
    Ludicrousity said...
    I think most of the time we feel a sense of false guilt. In my experince, most of the things I feel guilty about aren't even things worth feeling guilty about. It's one thing to learn from experience, but it's quite another to carry around a sense of debilitating guilt that prevents you from acting in the future.

    And I agree dboy, much easier to dish out advice than take it. Stupid ego...
    Anonymous said...
    I don't feel guilty very often, only when i know i could have made a difference but didn't do anything or didn't do enough. If there is nothing that i can do in a certain situation, then i don't feel guilty about it even if i did try and help but failed.

    Every persons different. Some go out of their way to hurt others, while some just don't care and the rest try to help as much as they can. I suppose we can only make a difference in the situations that present themselves to us. But i feel that i can still put my self in a position that i can do more, more often.

    For the good of humanity!
    jenny said...
    i reckon that everyone has that desier to do good - to leave a positive mark. for some it might be hidden deep deep down. or it may be for not so pure motives on the surface. but i reckon for each person there is that inate desire.

    although that idea in me was through off kilter a little when learning about our inherent sinfulness. but let's not go into that at this moment in time. my brain isn't all that switched on just yet.
    Ludicrousity said...
    My brain doesn't start working until late afternoon, and even then it's questionable.
    Dboy said...
    My are brains.
    Ludicrousity said...
    Banana hammock!
    iggi said...
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    Anonymous said...
    If you give me 10 bucks I'll promise to be impacted
    Dboy said...
    Impacted? Like 'impacted bowel'? Or is that something else?

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