Journal Spy der Mann's Journal: YOU can make a difference! 1
Good evening, all of you who want to change the world. Did you know that you can change the world?
Have you ever wondered why people complain about the world's problems but nobody seems to do anything about it? Well, I've been thinking about that. A lot.
The first step is WANTING to change things. It's not enough to complain. You need to TAKE A DECISION and ACT UPON IT. So far, I've taken the following decisions, perhaps you can add to my list:
- Be as green as possible by using energy-saving light bulbs, disconnecting cellphone chargers when i don't need them, disconnecting the TV's instead of putting them to standby, and separate the garbage at home, when possible
- Boycott the RIAA and MPAA by not purchasing a single movie or music record from them.
- Boycott the Scientology cult by not watching any Tom Cruise or John Travolta movie (what, you didn't know he's a scientologist, too?)
- Promote a SPAMless internet by not sending chain letters ("OMG ponies! send this to your friends!")
- Promote a healthier life by not consuming junk food (McDonalds, I'm staring at you)
- Boycott Microsoft by switching to Linux
- Prevent my PC from becoming a SPAM zombie by either:
- Scanning my PC regularly
- Using Linux 100% of the time
- Or at least run Windows inside a virtualbox to prevent getting infected by a virus
- Promote the presidential candidate that I believe will stop the war nonsense (in my case, I believe it's Ron Paul - it doesn't matter what I believe, but what YOU believe. Have you promoted your candidate, or are just sitting around, not voting and just being another sheep?)
- Donate money to honorable causes (like the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Free Software Foundation, or your favorite opensource project (hint: Donating to the WINE project is a very good cause
See, there are so many things that you can do to change the world... and these are BASIC ONES. More advanced ones could include helping and giving tech support to people wanting to try out Linux (instead of sending them to RTFM), teach math for free to someone who needs it, praying at least a few minutes a-day, if you believe in God, visiting your lonely grandma once in a while...
Why am I so upset about mankind? Because I've realized that ONE- even one person can make a difference... what would be of computers without Linus, the GPL and Stallman? What would be of the web without Firefox? (And this goes back to the founder of Netscape)? What would be of black people (or color, if you prefer) without Martin Luther King?
Think about it. It takes one person to screw up the whole world at least in one area: George Bush. Need I say more? Well, it works both ways. One person can fix the world in at least one area. And that person COULD BE YOU. Maybe not in politics, but perhaps in ecology, or something more "down to earth".
See, sometimes we run away and hide from our problems and drown them in alcohol, drugs, porn, just food, whatever... but we have to remember that we could help other people solving their problems. And by not doing ANYTHING, we're letting the bad guys get away with it!
So, do you want the world to change, yes or no?
Well, DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!
Finally, I'd like to share a good news: Wine 0.9.49 just got out. Perhaps you are good at programming and might give the guys a hand. YOU can help destroy the Microsoft monopoly! OK, so you're not good at programming, how about this: Donate 5 dollars to the Wine project. Don't tell me you can't do that... if you live in the US, either you or one of your parents got a credit card. You can dedicate a weekend to send a money order.
So, instead of feeling miserable about yourself and why you're too weak to change things, you can get up, and change them.
What do you think?
Or if you don't want to do anything about it, you could at least distribute this text, unmodified among your friends - but NOT in chain e-mails, please! - to wake up their consciousness. Right?
So, stop complaining about the world's problems and DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT! NOW!
Already working on it (Score:2)