How You Can Contribute to Make This World A Better Place
It’s no longer about money, its about emotions
We often think that as an individual we cannot bring a change in society, but let me remind you if each person plays his role correctly, the whole play is a perfect one.
There are some things that we say or do that might hurt the other person intentionally or unintentionally. We don’t even realize it but our words might have an everlasting impact on the other person’s life. The most expensive gift a person can afford is accepting self and others just the way they are. Stop trying to change others and criticize them for being their real self. With many people getting aware of self-love, there are still some fishes that are mudding up the entire pond. Here are some of the habits you must give up on right now so that you as an individual can make a positive contribution towards society:
Stop Body shaming
How many of us have used words like "you have gained weight, you look fat" or "you are as thin as a stick" or "you are darker, these colour don’t suit you"? I am sure many of us must have used these, irrespective of the tone in which we said it. Now you might think "I was just joking, I said it just for fun" but no, there might be a possibility that you didn’t mean to make the other person feel inferior or bad BUT perhaps the other person doesn’t know the context you said in and might feel low about herself all her/his life. You are just one of the many people who have said the same thing to him/her, think how much it must have hurt him/her. So irrespective of the way(for fun or seriously)you body-shame someone, it is unacceptable.
And I said to my body. softly. ‘i want to be your friend.’ it took a long breath. and replied ‘i have been waiting my whole life for this.---by Nayyirah Waheed
Avoid Joking about mental illness
Now, how many times have we made fun of someone who came and shared with us that he/she was feeling depressed, or dealing with anxiety? Its high time that we realize that mental illness is a real thing and cannot be joked about. You cannot pass it on by saying "It’s just a phase, it will end " or "there is nothing like being depressed, it’s all in your head".There are still some ignorant people in the world right now, who think: “a psychiatrist is just for someone who is mentally retarded”. Please, a mentally ill person requires help, not these remarks. We rarely talk about mental health, and it is somewhere because of all of us, that people don’t feel comfortable talking about it. Everybody says, "you should share if you feel like this" but nobody says "you can share with me if you feel like this."
It is as enough that people are dying of AIDS but no one should die of ignorance --by Elizabeth Taylor.
Forbid Rude behaviour towards patients suffering from a particular disease
How have we treated the ones that turned out to be Corona positive? Or the people that are HIV positive? Have we treated them just like we treat other people or have we always been ignorant towards them, making them feel inferior to us? One thing I noticed during this COVID pandemic that people have been exceptionally rude towards corona positive patients. It’s correct that you have to maintain social distancing physically but you do not have to maintain it emotionally. Some of us speak ill to them even when they have recovered. Please, just because they are people who were COVID positive or are HIV positive, or any other disease, you don’t have the right to make them feel that way. Fight the ailment, not the ailing.
Love is what all the world needs.
Put an end to Trolling on social media:
This is very common nowadays, just going down and writing in someone’s comment section"you look ugly" is very easy, but how much you make the person feel disrespected, you don’t realize that. The right to have an opinion and freedom of speech does not imply you have the right to disrespect someone else. This practice has a very-very negative impact on the person reading your remarks. Please stop it. Some might wake up to that comment and that can ruin their entire day or maybe days.
Social media has made too many of you comfortable with disrespecting people and not getting punched in the mouth for it. ---by Josh
Casual relationships
Now If you want to have fun, or just date casually, you are into a wrong thought process. There are a lot more ways in this world to "have fun", but playing with the other person’s heart or emotions is certainly not one of them. He/she might spend the rest of her life believing that she isn’t good enough. The new trend ‘casual relationships’, is set to change people’s way of thinking, but they are not aware of what is changing, might change for the worse. After this, you might start taking all the important relations in your life casually. A relation is sown by love, germinated by trust, and watered by time, whereas a casual relationship can never possess these three important qualities. In a way, it can mentally affect an individual who might be emotionally involved in it.
All these activities, such as body shaming, trolling, making fun of a person’s mental health are very common now, we should try to not be a part of this and rather motivate the person and love and respect him irrespective of gender, colour, or body type. As bad phrases can have an everlasting impact so can good words have it too? A word of praise can make someone’s day.
It’s a humble request to all those reading this, its never too late to apologize or change. If you have ever hurt anyone, by any of these ways or maybe in some other way please apologize and make it a point to never do it again. You might just restore someone’s confidence and smile.
Also, there are people who self criticize themselves, but you need to learn that it’s high time that we embrace what we are rather than disgrace about what we are not. Please, every person out there, you need to learn that love can come in all shapes and sizes. Love yourself.
Be proud of who you are and not ashamed of how someone sees you. — By livelifehappy.com
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