Maybe I Donāt Need to Make a Big Change in the World
āBe the change you wish to see in the world.ā ~Mahatma Gandhi
As a teen, I was passionately idealistic about justice, love, and compassion. Reading the words of Martin Luther King, Jr., Mahatma Gandhi, Mother Teresa, and other icons of justice inspired a desire to make a big change in the world.
Older people would attempt to temper my enthusiasm with a dose of jaded reality, saying things like, āThatās just the way the world is,ā and āYou canāt change people.ā
I vowed to never be like that. I didnāt want to give into the status quo and turn …