Get Motivated

Get Motivated and Make a Decision

This probably should have been my very first post. Unfortunately, it isn't so let's just consider this the first step within the tenth act. To volunteer, or even consider volunteering, you need to be motivated. That's the reason for this entire cite, right? Well, if you want any small prospective of how difficult these 100 acts are going to be (not for me, but the purpose of it), or even have just stumbled upon this website by accident, I beg you to read Ishmael.
I saw this book being handed out in my Language class and, like everyone else, groaned. Yet another boring, biased, meaningless book-- or so it seemed. I read the first 40 pages and realized that this book wasn't ordinary. We could learn a lot from it. So why am I practically writing a review for a book on a volunteer website?, you ask. Well, the meaning of just the beginning is the answer. There are loads of controversial meanings within this book. Let's start with a few of the stronger ones.
First of all, the unfortunate emotion regarding our environment. This world was not only built for man. Nature is not ours for the trashing. This entire life is not solely ours. Yes, lives must be improved! That's part of the acts of kindness concept; but not just human lives. Now, I'm not telling you that we aren't significant. Nobody can deny that humans are. I'm asking you to realize that just because humanity is important, it doesn't mean that we can go on our pompous ways thinking the earth is our pedestal (not that all of us do this). Please, in order to make a difference, let's use our influence to help what isn't ours.
Secondly, regarding humanity; the collective, general emotion of people regarding change for the better. As humanity, when faced with a need for change, some of us react with "yeah! Let's do this!" Which is fantastic, but do we? There are way too many people telling us that one person cannot make a difference. Those of us who are motivated say "forget you", but how many of us truly do? How many of us actually continue making a difference? Not enough, that's how much. So I plead that you truly do forget them. Actually, that you don't. That you not only get up and help make a difference, but you ask them to do so, too! It begins with one person: make that person be you.