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“Change. Yes, we must!”
Amara~Isis
“Change people. Transforming our world.”
I promised Phil that I would write my first blog today.
I don’t always keep my promises, although I do try. In this case, I really want to keep my promise, because Phil is a really good guy. People say that there are no good guys left in the world, but they are wrong. Phil is a really good guy. He cares. About me and about you. He cares. He cares enough to put himself out there to make a difference in the world. In that, amongst other things, he inspires me. I love to work with him. Or, perhaps I should say, I love that he choses to work with me.
Once you decide to write a blog, you have to decide what to put in it. For me, that was easy. I am passionate about Change. And, about people who make Change. Change that makes a difference in the world. Our world.
It sometimes feels as if we have given up on Change; simply stopped believing it can happen. We used to expect our politicians to do it for us, but most of us don’t expect that anymore. We’ve been too disillusioned. Or maybe, we just expected too much of them – expected them to do it all for us, so that we could get away with hanging out, not doing our bit. We have seen the folly of this. That is not the way to do Change.
Change happens when ordinary people do extraordinary things.
Change happens when ordinary people do extraordinary things. When ordinary people refuse to accept the way life is, just because it has always been that way. This is what we call ‘innovation’. Every time there is innovation, someone decided not to accept the status quo. Someone decided to be open to the possibility that things can be different. If we dared to imagine, to believe and to act on our inspiration.
I have done that many times in my life. Dared to believe that life could be different and reached out for that other life. I have done this for myself and I have done this for others. And, I’ve loved it every time. I have learned that the only thing stopping us from making a world that we love to be in is our own belief that it cannot be that way. Because it can absolutely be that way. It can be any way that we want it to be. We just have to believe.
Add a vision to our inspiration, cloak it in faith and take action to make it happen.
So, this first blog is for all you Change-Makers out there. All you who have not given up on this sad old world of ours. If I were writing President Obama’s opening speech for his next election campaign, I would not abandon his “Change. Yes, we can” message. I would enhance it to: “Change. Yes, we must”. Because, the world has changed and we must change with it, if we are to have a hope of surviving in it. This is not optional. The world will not stop and wait for us to catch up. Or, decide that we want the Change. It does not matter whether we want the it or not. It is simply here. And, it is not going away.
All we can decide is how we are going to live it.
All we can decide is how we are going to live it. Ride it like the crest of a wave. Or, drown in it. Be swamped, dragged under, by it. But, why should we? We have a choice. A glorious, empowering choice, that is ours to make. The only question is: Do we have the courage to make it? Do we have the courage to stop blaming everyone else for the stuff we don’t want in our lives and start holding ourselves accountable for making things different? That was my moment of freedom. The moment I realised that I had a choice. Not just intellectually, but emotionally, spiritually and physically too.
I have spent the last several years embodying that choice and now I am ready. I am ready to help you in whatever way that I can. To recognise your choices. The changes you want to make and the power you have to make them.
I have written a story for you. It is called: ‘NewBorn: A Modern Fable’. I will be posting it soon. But, in the meantime, let me know how you are doing. What change are you wanting to achieve? What is your inspiration? Do you have a vision and the passion required to drive it? Are you in action around your vision? Or, are all your distractions getting in the way? We have all been there. Write to me. Share with me your dreams of a different world and what you are doing to make this happen. I believe in you. I know that you can do it. Make a difference, where it really counts.
The only question is: do You believe it too?
Amara~Isis
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