If not you, then who?

You are responsible whether you like it or not.

To provide a bit more context - if you are someone that identifies a problem, figures out a solution, can see how to prevent something negative from occurring etc. then you have a responsibility to do something about it.

Once upon a time, I didn’t think it was my place to make a change on certain things. Why? I thought my opinion, thoughts and feelings really didn’t matter. Why would I expect anyone to hear my ideas? Why should anyone listen to me?

My eyes were opened when, during a conversation with one of my first bosses over a coffee, we were talking about something I had noticed in my week and didn’t like - maybe someone being rude on the train. He asked if I did anything about it and I replied no. The conversation was brief, but the end point was, why shouldn’t I have said something? If I don’t then someone else might suffer the same issue and the person in question may never change. If I don’t say something, then who will? If I can’t throw a mirror up to this person so they can see what they are really doing, then who will? The spiral goes on and on.

We are citizens of the world, we are from this planet. Other people have designed the world we live in from furniture to laws - people just like you and me. Society is something we are apart of and effected by, but it is also something we act on and change. We have a responsibility, inherently, as a human to make the world a better place - sometimes that can mean being mean, even hurtful. It comes with it’s negatives, but it also comes with a plethora of positives, even though they may not be seen or realised in the moment that you act.

If you have noticed somewhere you can make the world a better place, make a change that betters the world, then go and do something about it instead of sit on it, letting the idea and potential to die with you. Roll your sleeves up, get to work and save the day yourself. If you don’t, who will?