Blaming and waiting

"Why didn't you do something?"

Sound familiar? I'm sure that at one time in your life you've put the blame on somebody else. Or perhaps, that they put the blame on you. Whether it be something small, something big or something big that turned out to be something small. You've tried to make it look like you were in the right the whole time, and the other person, well, not in the right.

Thanks to John Mayer, we've all adopted the idea of "Waiting on the World to Change". Oh really? The world is going to change if you wait? Really, John Mayer? Really?

"Me and my friends, we just keep waiting, waiting. Waiting on the world to change." I used to love this song, it gave me a reason to lay back and put the blame on the 'world' for being terrible. Blaming the 'world' for rape, homicide, OD's. Because you know, it's not my problem. It's the 'world's' and I'm just gonna sit back and relax. And DO WHAT? Wait?

Because WAITING will solve the problem. Because WAITING will rid the world of poverty? Of AIDS? Of dying infants? Of crazed murderers?

And another issue I have with this song is 'waiting on the WORLD to change'. Well, who is the world? What is the world? I'll have to answer this question by using a notorious artist, MJ. His song 'We are the World' conveys the exact opposite message to JM's. Ironic how JM is MJ backwards. Which goes to show that JM's way of life is backward to society (assuming that MJ's was progressive. Doubtful.)

But it's true. We ARE the world. We ARE the children. We ARE the ones who are going to make the better day. So get off your butts, world. There is no waiting in this society. No waiting, no backwardness. Get out there and make a difference. Get out there and show the world, the others you care and that you are an active person in the World community.

Waiting is not going to get you anywhere. Will children stop dying from hunger if you wait? Will children stop dying from hunger if you blame someone else? Will the person you are in love with know if you wait? Can you blame them getting engaged or married, because you never told them?

The name of the game is NOT outrunning the blame. Take responsibility for your actions, and DON'T WAIT.

"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones WE'VE been waiting for. We are the change that we seek." - Barack Obama, US President.

We are the change that we seek, Lisa xx