HOW BLOGGING CAN CHANGE THE WORLD?
May 2, 2008
Don’t ask what the world needs. Rather ask - what makes you come alive? Then go and do it! Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Change the world!? Seems like an enormous ambition, a gigantic task to do. At one look, it seems to require a superpower and super ability to do the job. Years ago, Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, Newton explored the gravity theory, Einstein formulated the Relativity Theory, Charles Babbage started the era of modern computer, Tim Berners-Lee develop the World Wide Web, Martin Luther King advocated the for the equality of races, and Jesus Christ brought Christianity to the world. These are the just a few examples of the great people who evoke change into the world. With these, I would like to pose a question, “How blogging can change the world?”, or I should say how a blogger can change the world? Just like anything else that had been invented and discovered blogging has two faces, the good and the bad. Like nuclear science and all other technology, blogging has no conscience of its own. Whether it will become a force for good or evil depends on the blogger who posted it. A drug can heal or kill and such is blogging can be useful or harmful.
Blogging is a powerful tool because it opens a superhighway of self-expression. It provides a vast space where everybody can speak their minds and be heard (or read). Blogging promotes love, awareness and concern of what is happening around us, and at the same time it endorses violence, greed, immorality and other evils. The responsibility relies on the hand (or keyboard) of the blogger. As what the saying goes: If you want to change the world, start within yourself. You don’t have to be a big-time blogger with millions of hits per day to contribute a change in our world. Your pink-themes blog that speaks about love, or your animé-inspired personal blog could maybe inspire somebody. Or maybe your humorous blog with lots or senseless thoughts and corny jokes could help someone to crack a smile in stressful day or could maybe help a person from depression. Anything that gets someone to release the stress in your life and really laugh is worthwhile. It can heal the planet. It truly can, and it actually has.
You and I might not be Superman or Wonderwoman, and not even close to Powerpuff girls but somehow with your pink-themed blog and my corny blog we can contribute in changing the world for better. Your blog can make a difference.
BLOG ON!








