How to change the world?

Stuck, stuck between the young and the old. Too old to try and change the world without already sounding jaded, and I’m too young that I don’t have that Parental authority in my voice. I’m stuck between a world of coffee and cartoons. I’m in a state of careless responsibility.

I cannot sleep this morning as the sun is preparing to show off its beauty one more time and I cannot seem to numb my brain from thinking “How to change the world”. Simple concept, so why would it be hard. Yesterday I was driving up a street and we saw an old lady in her what looked like pajamas going to what looked like her mother’s house across the street. My wife mentioned to me that you just knew by looking at them that they were Mother and Daughter. I was then pondering about it, living so close to where you were raised. You are basically dying where you were born. Is that a wasted life? What defines a wasted life? Could the biggest changes in this world actually be the smallest deviations? If every single person just started to respect each other only a bit would this change everything? If everyone did one nice thing for one person a day, would the world change?

I goggled “how to change the world” tonight and was brought to a website that was basically a pitch to hire a team of Brother inspirational speakers. But on the site it had a poll. The poll was what you thought was the most important in this life, the variables were: Money, Water, Food, Clean Air, Oil\Gas, Time, Family, and the Internet. When I saw the results I was like what!?! The top of the list was Gas\Oil. This list had Food, Water, Family, even clean air and gas\oil was number one. You obviously tell that most people that were included in this poll were from a western society.

Next I was checking out a movie called “To save a life” (which was great) but there was an Atheist calling it propaganda on IMDB. A Christian was defending their belief calling it not propaganda and then the debate started. It was typical for both sides for the argument but the end was perfect. A person stated that Romans 2 states that Christians should not judge others, and the other person (presumably not Christian) said well sorry for being a bad Christian. I found the irony in that the Christian was talking about a movie wasn’t being propaganda and in the same sentence telling a non-Christian a scripture to which they don’t believe.

It makes me wonder if the world could change with just a little more love and tolerance, It does sound like that could work, but if you look at Jesus from the Bible, he was totally different. Jesus was a in your face “you can’t handle the truth” kind of guy. Does God want us all to be like that? Would that change the world or just put up bigger barriers between Christians and the World?  Will the world even be around long enough to change? Can the world be changed one person at a time? Is it even possible? Seriously, is there enough time to tell the world let alone listen to their reply? I find the world a lot like me and in that I have all the time in the world to talk and tell my story but no time to hear the reply and take the time to listen.

It gets so frustrating that here I am at 33 with the basically exact thoughts I did when I was 15-20-25-30-33…… Is there really a way to break the cycle of who we are? Or am I just like everyone else and that one day I will grow old, I will wake up with pain where there wasn’t before, wrinkles, loss of life’s zest and realize that I was a wasted life, like so many before me, will I be one who gives there all and then get stuck in a church and become so jagged by religion that Jesus will look at me and say “I do not know you”. Death for so many must have been such a surprise and will continue it’s sad songs of the everyday Christians who are lost in this world of fake pretenders, false Gods, and graven idols.