What really matters?
I don’t know if anyone watched the heart rendering TV programme Zimbabwe’s Lost Children. This got me thinking of how easily we lose sight of what is really important in life. Here were children whose lives were very hard. They had no money and feeding themselves was a struggle, yet they wanted so badly to go to school to become educated. ( Can you imagine children in this country wanting to go to school so badly!) They knew their only hope of changing their circumstances was to get an education. They would walk all the way to school knowing that they would probably be sent home because they had not paid the fees ($5 a term!). One lady interviewed comment that “when our children cannot dream, then we have lost all hope.” Think about it….
When you are watching such programmes you cannot fail to want to be able to help in some way. Having worked for a charity in the past I am acutely aware of how difficult it is to keep organisations running on small funds– many people give what they can (interestingly enough according to BBC West Mids the West Mids region raised the most money for Children in Need considering the West Mids has been one of the hardest hit areas by the recession…!) but it is even harder to get people to part with their time.. We are all so busy getting on with the issue of living let alone work and other things. I sometimes wonder if we have become slaves of technology rather than technology being our slaves. Those who give their time voluntarily are so precious.
Many people think the problem or issue is so vast , that they cannot make a difference. But that old saying that “no one person can change everything but everyone can change something” is so true . So next time you are faced with an adversity, could you look at it more positively? Could you distract your own worries by thinking of the worries other people might have – and analyse just how much of an issue are yours ?
Next time you turn on your tap – remember the women in Africa who have to walk miles to get dirty water for their children knowing it will make them ill – but what choice do they have.
So how does this relate to business- well we all suffer the trials and tribulations our businesses throw at us, but if you look at things in context of the scheme of life, what really does matter in this world???
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