Action, not words.

Too many people are happy to sit back and complain about the state of the world...  Everyone's a critic, everyone 'could do that better', well go ahead do it!
No, you will just sit there in your armchair moaning to an empty room... 
What does that change? Who is listening? Nobody!

We live in a democracy, maybe it's about time we started using the power that this holds to bring about change. Maybe it's time we started standing up for the rights of those who cannot stand for themselves.

I want to be their voice.

Don't you?!!

Surely by the power of love we can overcome all the injustices that exist in the world. 
I truly believe this.

Let me share with you one of my recent experiences of love, love as I've never experienced it before - in its purest of forms, at its most natural, most beautiful.

 It is here that I introduce to you, class 3 and 4, of Akal Boys School, Rajasthan, India.

 These eleven young boys taught me more about 'love' in the 10 weeks I spent teaching them than the previous 1159 I have spent on this Earth.

They taught me how to love, with an open heart - not because I had to, but because I wanted to, I really wanted to.  I can't say exactly when it happened but I can tell you it happened pretty quickly and it was unstoppable. 

If I can be so conceited to quote my own diary, I want to share with you a small paragraph I wrote in the first 2 weeks of my time in India:

'The way I see things is changing before my very eyes, the children are doing this to me; they are beautiful, so beautiful.  I feel like I can see into their souls, that yearn for a better life, whatever that may be to them.  When I look at them, I'm embarrassed- embarrassed that I moan about the little things, embarrassed that I have all I have, that I do not need.  The question is about want and need, we can have whatever we want whilst they struggle to gain what they need, what they deserve!'

It think it's time for us as a people to start making some changes.  To look around and see that the old way isn't working so it's on us, this generation, to do what we can, to survive as a people and come together through the unity of love - a power that can overcome the greatest of evils.