“You must be the change you want to see in the world.” Ghandi once quoted, meaning that you must change yourself to the way you want others to be changed. This could also mean many other things, but to different people. This passage about Ghandi’s Top 10 fundamentals for changing the world, has many different options and ways to change the world, but has different meanings to different people. One other quote said by him, “An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind,” means to me that you must forgive others, but for someone else, it might be the literal meaning.
To me, and many other people, Ghandi was a very good man. He has shown that violence is not always the good answer, and that a better answer can be found in a conflict. What he did was incredible. Through his theories, beliefs, and influence, he changed the world by giving theories to cease discrimination, give rights and liberation to women, and many other things.
Ghandi influenced many people to change themselves and the world around them. This symbolizes the power of one. The power of one means how one person can be powerful enough to be a symbol of action and change. Gandhi, being one of these people, followed by Mother Teresa, the man stopping tanks in Tiananmen Square and others. The power of one can be from protecting your home, to being killed in fighting for your beliefs. Ghandi did this by influencing people to change themselves.
Ghandi did great things, and what I have learned this year is that after all that Ghandi has done to try and make the world a better place; people are still not receiving the rights that they should have, which should be to cease polygamy, human trafficking, sexual abuse, slavery, and many others. What I have also learned, but through a video in class was that not just one person can change the world, everyone can make a difference.
I hope when I grow up, or even if I could start now, is to help people to receive their rights that they should deserve, which are not illegal, or help people in the state of poverty, mostly in Africa, to receive the resources that they need. I would also like to try being in an act of the power of one by changing the world, as another choice.
To find Ghandi’s Top 10 Fundamentals for Changing the World, go to this link: http://www.positivityblog.com/index.php/2008/05/09/gandhis-top-10-fundamentals-for-changing-the-world/
To find The Power of One Video, go to this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QzjqOl2N9c&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Froom305%2Eedublogs%2Eorg%2Fthe%2Dpower%2Dof%2Done%2F&feature=player_embedded
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