With New Year’s just a day away, what do we have to look forward to in the upcoming year?
We usually look ahead to make things better for ourselves and immediate families. If you can, helping others is very gratifying. It doesn’t take much away from our “normal” concerns in life. I’m not talking about putting together a global rock concert with stars galore.
Helping someone out, or working for a good cause, doesn’t mean we have to turn our back on anything or anyone else in life. As a matter of fact, it will make you feel better about yourself.
If your concerns regard global issues, find something you feel strongly about, and do something to help it. The ozone problem, medical conditions of third world nations, famine, animal extinction, earth quakes, or any other myriad of world problems, need to be addressed. It is the responsibility of those of us who have the means to help; in whatever way we can.
If you believe in national or local issues, there are many ways to help out. Doing something as small as taking out the trash, mowing a lawn, picking up some groceries for someone you know who can’t, has an impact. Any way we can help out those who have fallen on hard times; is appreciated by them. Giving blood or being tested for compatibility for a bone marrow donation has an impact. Food, clothing drives, monetary donations, have an impact on others. There are a million things that have an immediate or future effect on someone, or all of us.
We can make a change in the lives of others, one small step or gesture at a time. All we have to do is take a few minutes out of own lives, and do it.
Hoping everyone has a happy and healthy New Year. God Bless.
For New Years I would like not to not have to see John's editorials for a whole year. I have a pretty straight forward train of thought and quite simply the bi-polar thought process gives me a headache !
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