When I tell people what I’m going to do with my life, they often told me same things over and over again. You’re too nice. You’re too kind. I’m not as noble as you are. You are very noble. It’s a very noble thing to do. I support you doing such a noble thing.

Seriously. Shut up.

I am starting to get pissed off. Not just I don’t like people telling me that, I hate it. You see, the problem is not on the people. Not what they told me. But what makes me angry is the fact that so many people think that dedicating your life to the society is a noble thing to do. I really do not think it’s noble. I think it is something that every person, I repeat, EVERY SINGLE PERSON on this earth should be thinking more about. I think it is a MUST that every one starts thinking a bit more about doing something for others and stops thinking about themselves. I think it is a MUST that people start caring for others more than they care about their pockets. It’s not a noble thing to do, it is a must.

What can I do for the greater good? Come on, get yourself in line. A lot of people throw themselves that question and deny the fact that they could actually do something. A lot of people CHOOSE to think that what they do won’t make a difference, so they just give up along the way and take that excuse ‘I’m going to think about myself and my family, at least that’s the only thing I can do.’ to justify their selfish actions. People seek fortune, education, position, power, fame, welfare, and so many other things that could lift their social and financial state up. But while they have them all, they forget to use what they have to help other people. They think, ‘I won’t make any difference. The world has had too many damages.’ I really can’t bear to imagine what would happen if everyone thinks like that.

I mean, there is nothing wrong about struggling for your life. Yes, it
is not wrong at all. But making it as your life goal is a very
pathetic. Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of
ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you
unfulfilled.

I am very much aware that there is no community service requirement in
the real world; no one forcing us to care. We live in a culture that
discourages empathy. A culture that too often tells us our principle
goal in life is to be rich, thin, young,
famous, safe, and entertained. A culture where those in power too often
encourage selfish actions and discriminate the minority. Instinctively,
we knew that it was safer and smarter to stay at home; to watch the
movement from afar. But when we watch these people in poverty, we
understood that what was happening was wrong, that we had an obligation
to make it right. What matters is which decision you finally take, to
keep sitting or actually get up and do something.

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When Barack Obama once decided to dedicate his career serving the community, a man came up to him and said, "Let me tell something. You look like a nice clean-cut young man, and
you’ve got a nice voice. So let me give you a piece of advice - forget
this community organizing business. You can’t change the world, and
people won’t appreciate you trying. What you should do is go into
television broadcasting. I’m telling you, you’ve got a future."

But he is who he is right now and look where he is right now, on the edge of having the power to actually do something for this world. He once said in one of his speeches, "Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would
do it. But it’s not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it
comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. it’s  whether
you let
it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it."

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If only people would just learn the meaning to sacrifice personal needs and serve the greater good.
If only people would just stop giving excuse and start doing something real.
If only people could realize that what they do can actually make a difference.
If only people could start thinking about others as much as they worry about themselves.
If only everyone thought like that, then this world would be hell much of a better place to live.

There’s much more to life than just fortune or fame. There are things that the world start forgetting about and every time I remember that fact, it never fails to send a shiver down my spine.