Making a Personal Change

The world looks to us such a mess
so we think we’re able to do a fix
but how we expect to change the world
it’s too big a prob for our few tricks

Take a deep long think inside
ponder a lot on what to do
take a real look inside your heart
maybe need to change you

You see before you change the world
there’s a little change you do need
and that’s within your own heart
now there’s a thought to ponder indeed

So go and change yourself within
only then this world will transform
now if everywhere were to do that
that would really cause a storm

(‘Everyone thinks of changing the world but no one thinks of changing himself’. - Leo Tolstoy)
Copyright © | Year Posted 2016


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Date: 7/11/2016 3:49:00 PM
This is so true...but what about those in denial of needing a change. I believe that this can happen one day.
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Gordon Mcconnell
Date: 7/11/2016 4:07:00 PM
Thanks Pace, so true what you say and like your positive reasoning that it'll happen one day. May it indeed be so!
Date: 7/10/2016 3:57:00 AM
A Thunderous and Massive STORM called LOVE.
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Gordon Mcconnell
Date: 7/10/2016 8:18:00 AM
Thanks Holly!
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