“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”

 Mahatma Gandh

        The first meaning this quotes is asking is to be introspective when I find things in life or in the world that I don’t like. In other words, analyze your thoughts, your behavior, and your feelings. For example, If I don’t like intolerance I should consider myself first in terms of seeing whether I am tolerant or not.  The second meaning is, once you analyzed yourself and you don’t like what you see, then change it for your well and you will see how you world change around you.

      This is one of my favorite quotes and I carry it every day on a pendant that my sister gave me 3 years ago. It remains me that if I want to change something that I don’t like in others I must start with me. To do it I need awareness of my own self, what I am doing, what I am thinking, what I am felling. It is very easy to judge people in relation to their behavior, or criticize them or complain. Have you ever thought about having those personality aspects that you don’t like in some one? For example, intolerance. Many times I have hardly criticized people around the word, especially Israelis and Palestinians relating to their territorial situation. Even thought I understand that both razes have their religious differences and relevant historical discrepancies, I cannot understand why they just accept each other in the way they are, their religion and respect their historical traditions and repair their problems and live happily ever after.

                When I see myself criticizing this kind of circumstances with such an emphasis and confidence as if I were some one that tolerate different behaviors of people, especially in NYC where diversity, in its whole context, is a predominant characteristic. It is difficult to accept people as they are their traditions or religions. It is easier to judge people where we are unable to see inside of ourselves first. If we really want a better world we must start to change the things we don’t like about our personality.