Let's make a difference!

This year I want better for the world we are all living in, I want to make it a better place for us all. I know just me and whoever reads this might not make a big enough impact, but I’d like to think it makes us the people were meant to be, instead of the people we have become. We look around dreaming for the better car, the next fancy phone, flash watches and clothes, all to post on social media to prove to others our lives are great. But surely none of it matters if when we leave this world, nobody remembers us for our materialistic belongings. We remember inventors, doctors, scientists, hero’s, explorers and even iconic entertainers, people who made an impact on others, their lives to whom they helped, brought joy and wisdom.

We all make new year’s resolutions every new year and never stick to them, because we get fed up with never seeing the results we make up in our heads. Are our expectations to high? Do we not try hard enough? Are we all just weak minded? Maybe just maybe we don’t need a gym membership to lose that weight. Maybe we just need to curve our diets and walk or bike a little more? Or maybe our bodies are fine the way they are. Did you scroll through social media or read a magazine or watch a movie and see someone slimmer or much fitter than you? Are they what made you think you should look like that? Are our decisions decided by the influence of others.

We are so consumed by all the corruption, brainwashed by all the things we read, watch and witness every day to believe. Some miss their childhood days, reminisce about the simpler life, before technology had all the answers. Before you would fix something that’s broken, instead now you just replace it. The days when you would bake a cake, instead of buying one. The world is teaching us to replace what’s broken, when really if you look hard enough, you can fix anything. So, let’s fix us, because I feel we have become broken.

What I’m trying to say is, none of it matters. When we are children, we wish to be adults, rushing our childhoods away. We become adults to find we wake up, go to work to pay the bills to just survive. None of us can really live the lives we all dream of. So maybe instead of paying for a gym membership or saving for that fancy car, maybe we could make memories that cost nothing, live for the today, for the now, instead of fantasising over the dream life we never seem to reach. Enjoy the little things around us, become humble, make someone smile by opening the door for them, brighten someone’s day if they are low, help others less fortunate than yourself. Perhaps improve the village/town/city you live in by picking up that empty can, crips packet or newspaper flying around. Imagine if everyone made a new year’s resolution to improve the world we are in, imagine the magic we could spark.When we come elderly, all we seem to wish for is the changes we could’ve made, the different paths we could’ve taken. You see life from a different perspective and it’s all too late. So, let’s start now? Let’s spark those childhood memories and make them reality, let’s play outside, climb trees. Let’s learn to fix the dishwasher instead of replacing it because you’ve paid £5 a month in warranty fee’s so you can get a new one.

Next time you go out to a restaurant or even sit around your dinner table with your family or friends, how many of you are scrolling on your phones? Missing out on connecting with your loved ones that might not be with you forever. Ask about their day, make some jokes, live in the moment. Because that’s all we wished they did, when they look back through pictures and videos, you see how much time you missed on making memories with the people you love. We are born, we live, and then we leave.  It’s one big loop, but why don’t we make a better world for ourselves now and the people after us. Surely our purpose is deeper and more meaningful then just to survive. We need to help others, we need to be kinder, we need to share, we are not on this earth just for ourselves. What would be the point? We have a purpose, let’s make each one of us count, be remembered for the good we brought, and the change we brought! I don’t know about you, but I miss the people we used to be, the people we used to read about in the newspaper, people who knew better than to just exist, people who lived!

Over this year I would like to find things to improve the world around me, little by little. Not sure how, when or what, but I have this deep feeling that I should become something, become someone. I’d like to be remembered for something.