Daily Meditation 3: 3 Things I Would Change About the World

 

For my daily meditation today, I am thinking about what I would change about the world we live in today if it were in my control. I think that thinking about societal and global issues is necessary for personal growth. Ignorance may be bliss, but knowledge is power. Turning a blind eye to the world's problems is the easy thing to do, but if enough of us are aware of the issues we face and we consider possible solutions, there is power and value in that thinking. Here is what I would change.

-The Distribution of the Earth's Resources. I think a huge issue we face today is the unfair distribution of natural resources with a small part of the world's population controlling the majority of the Earth's resources that really belong to all of the people of this planet. What makes one group more deserving than another of what life has to offer? Why are some people afforded the advantages of medical care and clean water, while others are left to suffer and die?

-The Misuse of Technology. I think we are grossly misusing the technologies we have developed. We have the technology to take care of the earth we all depend on and all of the people on it and yet, there are still some who have way more than they need while others do not have enough. We use technology not to solve the earth's problems but to create more environmental and ecological issues.

-The Mistreatment of the Environment. We are intelligent enough to know that what we are doing in regards to the management of resources and the care of our environment right now, is not working. We are also intelligent enough to create technologies to produce clean energy and sustainability, but we are still creating disposable products for convenience and products that are designed to stop working for the sake of selling new products and making profits while the trash is sent to sit in a landfill.

"We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop."-Mother Teresa

What would you change?