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The Most Important Work You Can Do in Todays World
The world is a mess.
There are so many problems everywhere and none of them are unimportant.
Famine, War, Sexism, Racism, Identity, Animal Abuse, Depression, Mental Health, Diseases, Viruses, Privacy, Inflation, Global Warming, Homelessness…
The list sadly goes on and on.
And while these are all important topics to think about, there is also no way one person can do them all, nor one guide for what is most or least important.
We all have different ideas and concepts of what matters, and that’s okay.
What we still have to learn, however, is that focusing on one begets that the others get mostly ignored.
We need to be okay with that we cannot do everything.
The thing is that we are all part of this world, and all have a part we can play to improve it.
Yet, if we believe that this responsibility should be diffused to those that have the means (time, energy, and money) to improve the world, then what we focus on is not important at all.
The point is not where we put our energy but that we put our energy in somewhere.
We can decide to stand for equal rights all over the world, can fight so that others can…
