I have learned silence from the
talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet,
strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
Khalil
Gibran
There is a social side effect of surrounding
yourself with the right people; you end up surrounded with the right kind of
people. This isn’t always a good thing. I know that comment makes little sense
when taken alone, but I promise I’ll explain in a second.
When we start looking to change, to
evolve, like-minded people will gravitate towards you. After a while, you will
notice how much your world has changed for the better. And often it changes so
much that you might forget why this change was necessary, why you started down
this path. You might even start taking for granted all you have grown and how
much society has grown, as you become comfortable with where you are.
Then you see some idiot shows you just
how messed up the world still is.
It might be something that popped up
in the news, some post in your social media, or even some comment made by a
random person. At this point you will wonder where the hell this person came
from since, within YOUR world, this kind of mentality is so uncommon. That’s
the problem… within your world.
As you surround yourself with the
right people, you tend to forget that the wrong people are still out there. All
too often we assume that our work is mostly done simply because we no longer
have a front row seat to the disasters that humans so often are. These people and
these events come into our lives to keep us from forgetting the good fight. I
am not saying that we should be grateful for these kinds of events, but that we
should never forget that they still happen, even if they become fewer within
our lives.
So, no matter how well you are
doing, still go out into the world to do good. There is plenty of good that
still needs to be done. Don’t make your world so small that only those who
think like you live there, but keep it large enough to still see those you don’t
want to see. And never forget why you started down the path.
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