Commitment to a just cause is something that I highly respect from people. It shows both their motivation and determination to make a difference in our world. However, it is disheartening to see how many people do not achieve this. Every person has the ability to become a change agent, but they just need to receive the knowledge and means to do so first. A person can not effectively create change without taking the proper steps. In many cases, if the proper steps are not taken, the outcome could be negative even with good intentions.
The biggest challenge to becoming a change agent is a person's environment. This can be a seemingly insurmountable hindrance to one individual. This is the reason that most people to not become effective change agents. Many people around them do not commit to the same purpose in their daily lives and if a person does not receive help, it is easy to be discouraged. It is also easy to look around at the actions happening around oneself and become disgruntled with humanity. Recently, two of my friends' houses were broken into, trashed, and looted. Another one of my friends was involved in a hit-and-run. These negative actions stand out much more than the positive ones to most people. I urge people to use these negative actions as an example of what we should not do to our fellow human beings. One can also delve deeper and find out why these actions are occurring. I find the most uplifting action is to think about how many people would not commit such horrible acts and look at all of the good in the world. Malevolent people are truly in the minority, but we need to make this increasingly so.
