If you want to have friends, be friendly;
if you want to be trusted, be honest;
if you want to be loved, be loving;
if you want to be safe, be brave.
- Gil Hardwick
The world is as bad as you think it is. It's also as good as you think it is.
What you think is what you believe. What you believe is who you are.
The world is safer today for the average person, no matter where they live, than at any previous time in history. Yet we fear for our safety.
There are more people today helping others in need, especially strangers, even in parts of the world they know nothing about, than ever before. Yet many of us have trouble developing genuine love in our own lives. (Present company excepted.)
We have more need for trust today than ever before in history. Yet our leaders show us by example that even they cannot be trusted when we trust them.
Most of us are surrounded by people every day. Yet we have trouble making friends who would be committed enough to die for us.
Based on sheer numbers of humans and where we have populated ourselves on earth, we are the most successful species ever. At least since the age of the dinosaurs. Yet we, unlike other animals, foul our own beds.
You read this because you are a caring person. You likely taught your children to be the same way. You may assume that everyone teaches their children as you do. Your assumption, if that be the case, would be wrong.
The only way, the only way, the only way that we can ever achieve the kind of future we want for ourselves and our children and grandchildren is for everyone to teach their children the same messages.
The only way that can happen is if the messages are taught to parents before they have their first child and to children in schools.
The only way that can happen is if you care enough to tell others what you know and they don't.
If they ask for more substance than just your opinion, give them a copy of 'Turning It Around: Causes and Cures for Today's Epidemic Social Problems.' It may be the most important gift you ever give in your life.
Without you, nothing will change. You already know something that too few people among the 6.5 billion of us on earth know. You know that solutions for a better life are possible.
But they won't learn from you if you sit there with your mouth closed and your hands in your pockets. If it really matters to you, spread the word.
Bill Allin
'Turning It Around: Causes and Cures for Today's Epidemic Social Problems,' striving to give you the tools we all need to make everyone's life better.
Learn more at http://billallin.com
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This is about a worthy cause, not a book.
Be sure to download the free ebook you get for joining. It's called "50 Gifts for Life." It's worth the price of admission.
i get a bit scared when you write people should spread the same message..but you know not everyone believe the same ideas nor should they..the human diversity is something i think that needs to be respected..we do not think the same..for me it is important to teach children to respect differences ,especially as i see my Swiss neighbor and her clear dislike of my loud children and her garden parties made up of the few swiss or german speaking children around..i am proud my children have philipine, Albanian , Italian, African, Yogoslavian friends..that is for me the most important lesson as for getting what you deserve, let me tell you i am friendly, i am honest but i get cheated left and right, by my landlady and by people i place my trust in..my own conclusion: be careful who you trust, keep to your values but beware of the bad guys out there that want to make a profit out of your misery, like my corrupt landlady..as for teaching children all is good in the world if you are good, it is not ! but you can certainly try, but be careful and above all , respect diversity in thought and action, respect other ideas about life..perhaps that comes from my spending some formative years in N.Y.C...
Great Message Bill !
thank you so much
love and light
The objective would not be to teach children that everyone is honest, but that everyone should be honest. Not that no one kills or hurts others, but that no one should kill or hurt others. These are concepts of right and wrong. People all over the world agree with these.
We should teach these concepts to each child according to what the people of his or her country believe is right or wrong.
Suicide bombers, for example, are not doing what is believed to be right according to their religion or the sulture of the majority of their people.
Imagine what it oculd be like.
John, my articles make much more sense and can be fit in context much better after you have read my web site. Thanks for taking the time.