Changing a Million People
Changing a million people is no more difficult than changing yourself...
Or, maybe, it's impossible on both fronts? We all know how hard it is to change ourselves. With the right nudge changing a crowd probably could be easier.
I don't know how you change a million people. Many people, even when they know they should change won't.
A friend of Old Fuzzy and mine, a horse trainer told us, in order to train the horse you need to make it harder to do the wrong thing than to do the right.
It may work with a 'dumb' animal, but not so with us smart humans. Often times we would rather continue doing something painful that is difficult if it's a habit than change the habit.
We're comfortable being miserable.
The only way a person will change is if they want to change. It reminds me of the funny saying, 'Change a woman against her will, and she'll be of the same opinion still'.
I read the writing of other women. I myself have written articles and or posts along the same line as many of these well-intentioned writers.
Several years ago it occurred to me, I might as well save my breath, and save myself grief. For instance, women knew they needed to stop dressing like they were out there 'looking for a man'.
I wasn't telling them anything they hadn't figured out, silly me.
I don't know where the Christian answer is to this dilemma. We have women (and men) wandering around barely clothed, and some have said, 'should we pass around the apple again, Eve?'
As I've said, 'we never have the right to do a wrong thing'. I would like to see the world change for better, but when the heart isn't right, it just isn't right and no amount of brow beating will make it right.
The path of the person making change happen is often lonely, because change is frightening. In reality, all we can do is change ourselves and carry the banner. And in many ways it is a lonely path.
