Healing the World One Person at a Time

Today I was looking for inspiration. I took action & started creating way to inspire myself. I thought to myself "The only person that is going to inspire me is me." What I mean is that I have to take action & be inspired for me. I have not felt like writing lately so I forced myself to do it. I have not posted in a while so I inspired myself to just do it.

What I did was find inspiring people and rely on their stories to be inspired by. So the first person I thought of is Paulo Cuelho. he is truly inspiring to me & the first thing I read is this story.

Rebuilding The World
A father was trying to read the newspaper, but his little son kept pestering him. Finally, the father grew tired of this and, tearing a page from the newspaper - one that bore a map of the world - he cut it into several pieces and handed them to his son.

'Right, now you've got something to do. I've given you a map of the world and I want to see if you can put it back together correctly.' He resumed his reading, knowing that the task would keep the child occupied for the rest of the day. However, a quarter of an hour later, the boy returned with the map.

'Has your mother been teaching you geography?' asked his father in astonishment.

'I don't even know what that is,' replied the boy. 'But there was a photo of a man on the other side of the page, so I put the man back together and found I'd put the world back together too.'

--Paulo Coelho
Stories for Parents, Children and Grandchildren

What I am getting out of this is that by putting myself together, I am causing the world to be together as well. In healing what is incomplete, I heal me and in the process I allow those around me to heal themselves; they in turn allow space for those around them to heal & so on & so on.... Thereby allowing the world to heal.

This concept is really empowering and gives me a new perspective on being complete with my grieving process.