I’m pretty used to applying myself to a bit of well-articulated navel gazing but for today’s blog post I want to talk about something a little different. A couple of months ago, I found myself following a link from a re-tweet on Twitter about an organisation called FOURYEARS.GO and watched a video on their mission statement: WATCH:
The first time I clicked the play button on that video, it gave me chills. The second time I cried. Ive just watched it again and seen something I believe in with my whole heart. If you skipped over the video to read what I’m writing: WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU? CLICK PLAY!
The internet is full of links we follow and forget about. Issues that seem important while we read an article and then don’t bother to follow up. I can only say, please don’t let this be one of those links. Let this be a moment that changes your life. A link that changes your outlook. A video that makes you do one small thing that can contribute to changing the world and the way we live forever.
It’s so easy for us to say that just one of us can’t change the world. Perhaps not but perhaps we have forgotten the power of the collective, when we band ourselves together and decide to make a change. It doesn’t take so much to convince your workplace to take part or to begin a project with your friends that CAN make a difference. It doesn’t have to be a big thing. Stepping beyond recycling to check that the packaging of our products is recycleable, buying fairtrade, cycling to work instead of driving.
They all seem to be small insignificant things on their own, until you think of the fact that so far nearly 3,000 people and 878 organisations have verbally comitted to making a small change to their lives that can make a huge difference to the world we live in. That’s a large chunk of a town making a commitment to our ecology, to sustainability, to living an ethical life – but in the grand scheme of things, that’s not a lot of people.
So, I know that the people who come by and read my blog are good, intelligent, ethical people. SO I urge you … go and have a look at the FOURYEARS.GO website, and pledge your commitment, however big or small, talk to your friends about it, encourage your workplace to get involved. This is a world that we’re part of, a world that we live in. We are the greatest force for positive change it has. We’re relying on you.
THANK YOU, thank you for posting this piece and for writing so passionately about the work of Four Years. Go. This one organization, harnessing the power of thousands, eventually hundreds of thousands and, I can only hope, millions of people worldwide to make small, incremental changes in our daily lives, has the potential to change the world in just four years.
Imagine living in a peaceful world, all six point something billion of us, in harmony with the Earth and each other, with full bellies, medical care and opportunities to be the best each of us can be. We already possess all the resources we need to make this happen. Four Years. Go. is pulling together the people and organizations from the ground up to show we have the will.
Again, tipping imaginary hat, thank you.
Thanks so much for stopping by and commenting. It’s so lovely to see that other people have also been affected by the 4yg message. I just think it’s so inpirational and achievable, if only we can find a little time to apply ourselves. I think we’d be happier people within ourselves for it, as well as making substantial changes to our environment.