Tiny Drops

There are many roles that a person plays throughout their life, yet throughout everyone’s entire life they are students. As they add what they learn to the knowledge that they possess they can better make decisions to fit who they are. Steven Pinker says in his book, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature that “While conflict is universal, so is conflict resolution.” For every conflict currently in the world there is an active citizen/corporation/group working on conflict resolution. Each of these active citizens/corporations/groups is working towards an ideal future without conflict. It is doubtful that this will ever actually occur, after all, conflict is universal, but less conflict will make a positive difference for the world. When responding to globalization one should look for the conflicts and find a away to help them fade, even if it is simply a tiny thing. Mother Theresa said, “We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop was not in the ocean, I think that ocean would be less because of that missing drop.” The extent to which one responds to globalization isn’t as important as actually responding. Eventually those tiny drops will become something far larger, but the drops were needed first.