What are you doing?

I just watched a video (TEDx: Stephanie Nyombayire - Fighting Poverty, Wars and Famines), which got me a few thoughts to ponder on. Go ahead and look at it when you have the time.

What are we doing today to change our current state/conditions? Everyone here in this world has their own sort of complaints, and issues which they are not comfortable with. Well most people. When we think about these issues, who do we expect to fix them? When do we expect them to be fixed? And we talk a lot. I do. We talk about anything and everything, both young and old people alike. When does the talking/complaining give way to some actual actions? These group of people are even the minority.

The vast majority of humans are caught up and "distracted" by so many things that they even have no idea of the REAL issues. What do I mean when I say real issues? Oh real issues are those things that take humanity back, or societies {humanity sounds so grande, we'll probably need a chuck Norris on that one}. And you know them, they are not that far away. I won't even speak about them because the sort of audience that reads these posts, knows better.

My point: What are we doing now, to make that step? The generalisation here in Hungary is that people are pessimistic, but I think that generalisation applies to the whole world. We complain. And if we don't, we talk. And then we find someone to blame. Then we go back to where it all started. Then it becomes an impoverishing cycle. We need to take control of our lives. We need to stop this mediocrity now. We need to care. We need to come together and help one another to see these concerns addressed. Do something. No matter how small it is.

As I close, I was looking for a Mahatma Gandhi quote that I came across, but its hiding. I will paraphrase: The fruits of our actions isn't what really matters or the outcomes either. We have to do the right thing, now. What matters is that we do the right thing now.

It goes something like that.

Let us just stop for once thinking too much, and do the right thing. For our sake, and everyone else's.