Last night I may have come to a conclusion which will shape the rest of my life. That from this day forward my energies will be divided into three; each day I want to focus on myself and my home, my community, friends and family and lastly on a global level on the earth and its people. I was lead to this conclusion by my misery last night after seeing an advertisement for a children's charity and preventable deaths. I decided I could not spend yet another evening feeling helpless about these problems, that I could not hold my beautiful healthy child in my arms and insulate myself from tragedy and suffering. I cannot live my life with out making some effort on this scale.

I have felt this way for a long time, but have decided to formalise and act upon it.

I think the temptation is to spend ones life focussed on only the priorities of yourself and your family. It is so easy to justify this focus, by promising that when your finances and family have become comfortable, it would be time to look outside yourself give something back to the community at that time. But this thinking is not enough for me, and a “right” time to begin caring and acting will never occur. For me the time is now. It is time today.

 

It is clear that I already have a strong idea about myself and my family, where I want to go, what I strive for when raising my son and in being a wife. And on the second point I already have some contribution towards my community with my weekly commitment to the local soup kitchen, it is the third global aspect which requires the most innovation from me, in the past I have donated regular money to a few charities, but that seems ineffective and isn't something we can currently afford. I intend to do some research and reach out to people that I know which may be able to help me achieve some broader benefit for others, and also to commit a small amount of time each day to keep myself on track.