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I didn't write this, a friend showed it to me from the rpgfan boards, and I thought you guys might want to see it as well.
When somebody mentions changing the world for the better, people hear it and associate it instinctively with a better world. It's a common, basic principle of thought that we are all aware of. Cure for cancer, world hunger ending? Sure, we all know the drill.
How many people stop and seriously think about what bettering the world is?
It isn't an over-night miracle cure that changes the world. Quite frankly, that would be a very bad thing. Economies would fluctuate erratically, monetary values would alter radically, the world would in essence, have a new problem by solving the old one. That is what the fact of the matter is. To truly change the world, there is only one way to do it.
One person, one grain of sand, one string of rice, one atomic molecule at a time. A blanket statement and a universal problem solver will not fix the world. Nor can one, ten, or even a hundred people solve the entire world. The solution for these matters is a task force, and by such thought, The Salvation Army was brought about.
These are the warriors of virtue that better the world many people at a time in their own way. When you see The Salvation Army, what's one dollar out of your pocket when The Salvation Army has the means to convert that one dollar into a meal for five people? Ten dollars to feed sixty people?
Consider what sixty people really is. Your house, your neighbor, your neighbor's neighbor, averaging 4 people per house hold, that is about 12-15 houses of an entire family that can be fed off of ten dollars. Go outside now, look at your street. Count the houses and the people in them down your entire block.
Consider that one person could feed all of those people. Now consider that a grocery store for example, that I used to work at, averages about 2000 people in a given day, possibly much more in larger chains. Now consider that of those 2000 people, about 90 of them will donate money to The Salvation Army. Consider if every one of those 2000 people could shell out a mere one dollar. $2000 in a single day can feed over 10,000 people. Now consider that a chain such as Ralph's grocery, where I used to work, can average over 16,000 people in a given week thanks to Weekend shopping. If each one of those people would give ONE dollar, that is 95,000 that would not go hungry one night. Averaging two meals, that is nearly 50,000 people that would not go hungry for an entire day.
Now consider this is one store, in one week, of one business chain that has over 250 stores in california. That is over Twenty Three Million meals from one state in one week, if every person could donate a single dollar per trip. In a given month, that is 95,000,000 meals. In one year, that is 1,140,000,000 meals, from one chain of stores, in one state, for one dollar per person.
But they don't donate. They don't give to charities. They do not help the world.
The world will not better itself unless each grain of sand does its part, one person at a time, from a single dollar.
Think twice before you ignore The Salvation Army this holiday season.
Thanks.
How many people stop and seriously think about what bettering the world is?
It isn't an over-night miracle cure that changes the world. Quite frankly, that would be a very bad thing. Economies would fluctuate erratically, monetary values would alter radically, the world would in essence, have a new problem by solving the old one. That is what the fact of the matter is. To truly change the world, there is only one way to do it.
One person, one grain of sand, one string of rice, one atomic molecule at a time. A blanket statement and a universal problem solver will not fix the world. Nor can one, ten, or even a hundred people solve the entire world. The solution for these matters is a task force, and by such thought, The Salvation Army was brought about.
These are the warriors of virtue that better the world many people at a time in their own way. When you see The Salvation Army, what's one dollar out of your pocket when The Salvation Army has the means to convert that one dollar into a meal for five people? Ten dollars to feed sixty people?
Consider what sixty people really is. Your house, your neighbor, your neighbor's neighbor, averaging 4 people per house hold, that is about 12-15 houses of an entire family that can be fed off of ten dollars. Go outside now, look at your street. Count the houses and the people in them down your entire block.
Consider that one person could feed all of those people. Now consider that a grocery store for example, that I used to work at, averages about 2000 people in a given day, possibly much more in larger chains. Now consider that of those 2000 people, about 90 of them will donate money to The Salvation Army. Consider if every one of those 2000 people could shell out a mere one dollar. $2000 in a single day can feed over 10,000 people. Now consider that a chain such as Ralph's grocery, where I used to work, can average over 16,000 people in a given week thanks to Weekend shopping. If each one of those people would give ONE dollar, that is 95,000 that would not go hungry one night. Averaging two meals, that is nearly 50,000 people that would not go hungry for an entire day.
Now consider this is one store, in one week, of one business chain that has over 250 stores in california. That is over Twenty Three Million meals from one state in one week, if every person could donate a single dollar per trip. In a given month, that is 95,000,000 meals. In one year, that is 1,140,000,000 meals, from one chain of stores, in one state, for one dollar per person.
But they don't donate. They don't give to charities. They do not help the world.
The world will not better itself unless each grain of sand does its part, one person at a time, from a single dollar.
Think twice before you ignore The Salvation Army this holiday season.
Thanks.
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