# Are Our Actions Insignificant?

We know from basic physics that every single action ripples through 
society in one way or another. People tend to diminish their impact by 
looking at the bigger picture and rationalizing around it. Humanity can be 
seen as a super-organismal structure and as much as one cell in our body 
can look insignificant, all of them together bring about who we are. All 
of our actions are relative but everyone can have a significant impact in 
their life. How you scale this up to achieve more is something you then 
learn from experience. Most of the time, we lean towards conforming to the 
status quo and post rationalizing justifications for our current lifestyle. 
However, this kind of outlook comes back around to us one way or the other. 
If it is not by ending up less healthy and focused due to our eating 
habits, then it may for example be by experiencing a strong lack of 
purpose as we've stopped caring altogether. Right action is central to who 
we are and is reflected in both the smaller and bigger things. Many people 
in the world, for example, work for less than a dollar a day. The 
difference between their children having an education and a better future 
can be as much as a few dollars. While one life might look insignificant 
on paper, it means the world to us if it is someone we hold dear.

Using our ability to put our actions into perspective goes both ways since 
we cannot use the bigger picture to morally justify our inaction and apply 
a different rule-set for the ones closer to us. This is also why I do 
believe in the good in people because when we are personally confronted 
with the ability to do something good right in front of us, we tend to do 
so. But when it is further away, the way we go about our right action can 
be more impulsive. If we would all go about it in a more structured way, 
the world would look very different. It would be reflected in the way that 
we spend our time as well as the extent to which we support politicians and 
companies and their policies with our votes and money. We wouldn't have to 
compromise as much for the better or worse as it is easy to just stop 
caring altogether. But just as trust affects the extent to which we are 
hopeful, the extent to which we care is what gives us purpose. Having the 
right mindset allows us to understand this and inspires change that starts 
with ourselves.