We Need Your Drop
“We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.” Mother Teresa
I like that quote by Mother Teresa. Very much. It suggests to me the importance of our daily efforts to make this world a better place, no matter how insignificant those efforts may seem to us. Because in the end, none of us has the power to change things alone … but we do have the power to help change things. We can add our drop. Call it a drop in the ocean or a drop in the bucket. Whatever. It’s an important drop.
The reality of human life is that we are unique individuals who can only function by pooling our efforts as a society. We need each other. And ultimately we succeed or fail as a team, like it or not. When individuals recognize this truth, we gain a richer perspective that enables us to develop and share ourselves more fully with society. Motivated by something larger than “me,” we feel more determined to persevere through difficulties than when acting solely out of self-interest. In other words, I believe that we gain both as individuals and as a society if we focus our lives on adding our special drop to that pool of water. We elevate our own existence and help to elevate the existence of our fellow human beings. And who knows? Our drop may turn out to be a few drops — or a whole cupful of water. Most of us probably would agree that Mother Teresa gave the world more than a single drop, surely, whatever her own doubts may have been. But we don’t have to become Mother Teresa to do our part. We each only have to be who we are and try to share that with others as best we can.
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