Not long after the trading day, just after I finshed up designing a few pages for the charity I have been helping out with, I decided to go out for a walk. Things were starting to clear up outside and I am right on the waterfront right across from the Seattle Aquarium.
I walk outside, ah shit, its a peace protest. I am good at timing things I don’t know about. Just how I am. Anyway, joined the group, walked along and listened to their speakers. Now, I am not the type in a protest to get really adament, start chanting at such. Not my style. I am there to show support in numbers, but also think. I am split with my view on peace marches and rallies. They have their upsides and downsides. My general view is that people rally and then feel they did something good and get a sense of satisfaction. They don’t do anything more. Rallies are meant to rally and if you have dissatisfaction with how things are in the world, a joining a rally is not the way. Me? I wanted to hear what they had to say and my means of making change is a solo mission for now. It is May 1st, all the west coast ports are on strike through the International Longshore Workers Union. Cool. (really, strikes are good. didn’t want that to get confused with sarcasim)
Anyway, they are fighting for something. Thats awesome. Even if I don’t think they are going about it in an effective manner. At the same time, what else can you do, ya know? I’m not going to answer that, it might get me in trouble. Then I thought about me, what I am doing things for, and I realized something. All my life I have been thought and focused on good, didn’t really care what that good was, I just wanted to create good in whatever way possible for the world. I am doing that with the charity to some extent, but it is not the charity I would create if I were to make one.
The question is, what sort of change do I want to make in the world. I have to start somewhere. That is what I have been preeching. In essence, the work I am currently doing as well as embarking upon, is for no concrete cause. No specific betterment for the world. Not yet. I am going to change that. There is so much to do. I look around and I don’t know where to begin.
One thing I know is I want to help those who are less privliged, particularly those without opportunity. But that is exactly what the charity I am working for does… I am still in the same dissatisfied state though. I think I need to fight a specific problem. Find something that I passionately want to change, and start working towards that. I guess I’ll be setting a few of my last posts into action myself.
