Heal the World

Be kind. Everyone is struggling.
- Anonymous

Germany. A motorcycle accident happened on a road -it slipped, causing the rider to struck the ground of asphalt severely. Helpless, he was struggling alone, crawling to the sidewalk, bleeding. He waited there, hoping that there was someone somehow among the people around there that could offer him a help. 15 minutes. Cars that passed by was just passing by and pedestrians that walked past the sidewalk was just walking past. No one bothered to help this man. Finally, there was one car pulling over. He said to the man, "Hey, are you okay? I have just called an ambulance and they will reach here in few minutes. You hang in there for a while, ok." And left.

In the train. Now it's 7pm, the highest peak time of the day; everybody is making their way back home from their offices. Everybody is tired, everybody wants to be able to sit in the train. Standing near a seated young guy is an old lady who had a hunchback, carrying heavy stuffs and struggling to keep herself from falling everytime the train stops station after station. No asking, no offering, nothing. The young guy would keep working on his PSP and the old lady would keep standing until her last stop.

Realizing it or not, we are now living in a time where everybody lives in our own world. We don't care what other people around us is doing anymore. And we don't want to care. And we are not interested to care. We just don't bother to care. We often say we want to change the world, that we want to make a history. Why don't we start small? If only we are willing to spend just a little bit more time for others; to give a little bit more attention to what they are doing; to give a little bit more care to what people are going through, I believe we can make a difference. We are making history. And we can make this world a better place to live.

There's a place in your heart
And I know that it is love
And this place could be much brighter than tomorrow
And if you really try
You'll find there's no need to cry
In this place you'll feel there's no hurt or sorrow
There are ways to get there
If you care enough for the living
Make a little space, make a better place

If you want to know why
There's a love that cannot lie
Love is strong
It only cares for joyful giving
If we try we shall see
In this bliss we cannot feel
Fear or dread
We stop existing and start living
Then it feels that always
Love's enough for us growing
Make a better world, make a better world

Heal the world
Make it a better place
For you and for me and the entire human race
There are people dying
If you care enough for the living
Make a better place
For you and for me

And the dream we would conceived in
Will reveal a joyful face
And the world we once believed in
Will shine again in grace
Then why do we keep strangling life
Wound this earth, crucify it's soul
Though it's plain to see, this world is heavenly
Be God's glow

- Michael Jackson, Heal the World