A supervisor used to take me to dinner on Sundays.
We ate in an Italian restaurant famed for its penne vodka with shrimp.
The restaurant closed down and K. is no longer here. At her wake at the funeral home another woman told me K.’s dying wish: “that everyone love each other more.”
Sadly, the trend is hate and violence. A friend who is Jewish thinks Israel was wrong to attack Gaza, instead of doing an investigation and executing those responsible for the teens’ deaths.
If a butterfly fluttering its wings in South America can impact what goes on elsewhere, as the expression goes, it’s time to re-think turning a blind eye to what goes on in the world.
It’s time to honor the memory of a person like K. It’s time to consider that each of us can “be the change” we want to see in the world.
I firmly believe change starts from within, like Michael Jackson sings in the lyrics to “Man in the Mirror”: if you want to change the world, you have to first change yourself.
It starts with the man or the woman in the mirror. And it’s not ever too late to make a positive change in your life. Self-improvement has a ripple effect like stones thrown in a lake.
Changing the world by changing ourselves:
It’s something to think about.
I will talk in the Flourish blog soon about a technique that could help a person change their lives.
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