What had you contributed to the world?

A circulating facebook picture inspired me to think through this question:

"What had i contributed to the world?" and "What can I do to contribute more to the world?"

People had become so realistic. Money, knowledge, pride. Whenever we do something, we tend to think of what good could it bring to us?

We worked for money, to live a good life, to buy luxury items. It is true that without money, we can do nothing, but money is not every thing as well. It's worst even when it comes to greed, selfishness, and jealousy, all revolving around money and wealth.

We obtained knowledge, learn, acquire skills to survive in this competitive society. We use our knowledge to gain what we want, to earn money or simply gaining pride. Sometimes, we got arrogant, criticizing those of lesser knowledge/have different opinion than ours. We simply believe ours outweighed theirs. We called them stupid, idiot, ignorant. But does hurting others and creating hatred really necessary??

We climbed the ladder, we judged people, we think of ourselves more than any one else. We want to be the one who earns the most money, come out with the best solution, stand at a higher social ground. We stepped on those harmful to our pride, and look at the weak suffer at our feet.

Is being wealthy so important to us that we can forgo our happiness, friends and family?

Is knowledge so important if we never put it to good use?

Is pride so important if all it create is hatred and and greed?

After all the money, knowledge and societal ranking we acquired, what did we really do to help the world? What had we contributed to the greater society?

So, if you really feel like contributing to the society, there are a lot of ways you could do it.

1) If you have money, give it to charity. There are old folk's home, children's home and NGO around. Find the one you have passion in and give them some financial support so they could continue to fight for a good cause.

2) If you have the time and knowledge/skills, offer a little of your time to the organization whose cause you believe are truly important in making a change in the society. You could reach out to more people and to inspire more people into making a different in the society.

3) If you are an influential person in the society/your organization, you could reach out more easily to the people out there. You could use your influence to help the NGOs, or the charity organization, so they could reach out to more people and advance in their cause.

No matter how little or how much you have, do your part to the world. At the very least, what you could do is to make the people around you happy.