IT DOES MATTER, YOUR VOICE MATTERS
On May 15th bloggers from around the world, will be uniting around one issue, to fight for human rights.
By all indications, including the fact that Amnesty International is co-sponsoring the event with BlogCatalog, May 15th should be the largest gathering of bloggers to unite about a social cause in the history of the blogosphere.
Yet despite this potential, I get a feeling that there are many more bloggers who are reading about Bloggers Unite for Human Rights and thinking, “why should I blog, on May 15th, as no life will be changed and no one will listen, to me”.
This simply is not true. Don’t deceive yourself. Words, on a blog, in a newspaper, on a protestor’s sign, have the power to influence behaviour. Your words have the power to cause another person to say enough is enough. To cause that person to take action, perhaps an action as simple as sharing her newly found inspiration with another. The chain of events that ensues may ultimately save a child’s life, a family, a community, perhaps a nation, and since we are all connected, save our world.
If you read this, please join bloggers from around the world, on May 15th, and blog about human rights.
We all at some point fall into the pattern of thinking that it just maybe doesn’t matter.
Yes, you may hear the voice in your head saying, that “it won’t matter if I don’t blog on May 15th.” When you hear that scoundrel, remember these words: IT DOES MATTER. YOUR VOICE MATTERS. Together with thousands of bloggers we can change our world.
While you may not see the direct results of the lives you touch. And while you may be troubled by this, given that we live in an instant gratification society, rest assured that as a result of bloggers uniting on May 15th, and as the result of your blog post, at least one life will change. That life, very well, may be yours.
And because you were changed, ask yourself the question, “how will it affect the world around you, your children, your friends, your blog readers?” Yes, it does matter, your voice matters!