There are plenty of people who want the future to be better than what the present currently represents, and the best way to ensure that the future will indeed be better is to make a better present. In other words, for change to happen, we need to be that change, which means whatever that we are desiring for the future that makes for a more inclusive, caring, considerate, and fair society, necessitates us doing our good part right now, to actuate those changes, which will not only make for a better future, but also will make for a better present.
To get to a better future, we need to work on the foundation of what makes for a better future, and by doing so, we will help to ensure that today’s world is better for our active participation in doing those activities that represent fairness, truth, generosity, and compassion. That is to say, to somehow believe that the way that we achieve worldwide peace is to bomb to smithereens all those that we dislike or oppose us, is not going to be a viable pathway. Rather, we need to look at diplomatic solutions and a desire to see the other as just as valuable and of worth as we see our own self, for if we cannot do that, it isn’t possible for peace and justice to be preeminent in this world.
While there isn’t anything wrong with complaining about this or that – the problem with complaining is that it doesn’t actually accomplish anything, so after all the complaining comes out, we need to wake up and see if there is something constructive that we can do to help push things in the direction that it ought to be going, and to the degree that we can find like-minded people to assist us, or we to join them, we should do so. After all, there isn’t any way that the present is going to get better if we can’t get a substantial portion of the general public to buy into doing what needs to be done to help make things better, for to believe that we can simply ride the coattails of good people and get to where we all need to go, is never going to be good enough, because each of us, to the best of our ability, needs to contribute to the good of the public, because by doing so, we strengthen one another.
We are all born to a noble purpose, and it’s hard to imagine a better purpose than simply making up our mind, in our thoughts and in our deeds, that we will always do the right thing and thereby to do our good part to help make society a better place for our good participation in it. This type of mindset is not only good for our character, but is mandatory if we are to hold onto our optimistic hope that the future will be better, for in this present day, by doing our good part to do the right thing, we will not only have a better present, but we will be on the right path to make for a better future as well.