lookingforether:

Hello everyone! 

My school is going to be hosting two tremendously inspiring TEDx events in november; one for students and another for teachers. The theme for the students event is “Ideas that will change the world”, which as you can imagine, is going to be very exciting. We’re inviting speakers from all over Dubai to share their ideas and give the talk of their lives. But don’t worry if you can’t attend or speak as we’ll be streaming all the talks live. Check out our site for more details.

However, to make our event as extraordinary as it deserves to be, we need support from sponsors. Thus it would be greatly appreciated if you could like (and perhaps share) our facebook page in order to help us gain the publicity we need. 

Thank you! 

Support our school please! I’ll more than love you for this.

Everyone has memories of past occurences in their life which they’d wish they could simply blot out from the equation. Yes, in some instances it is so devastatingly dramatizing that the mere thought of such events is enough to send us in moments of pure disheartening agony. So do such melodramatic emotions serve as an allowance for us to discard these memories if ever presented with the oppurtunity?

Our mind is desinged in such a way where it takes into account everything that goes around us when while it develops, makes complex decisions and sends messages and impulses to the different organs and systems within our body. That includes ones physical, mental, social and intellectual development. Everything that we are, and will be, in our life is a result of what already has been. If you make changes to this constant, the core of our being, then you should expect a disaster to fall.

It’s not just one element you’ve deleted, it’s more like a missing link to an old aged bridge causing the entire structure to fall apart. How can you force the brain to produce the same output without all the ingredients. A cake will never taste the same if you take the eggs out, or the butter, the sugar and even the little pinch of salt and that’s because they all contribute to your end product.

Like mentioned in an earlier post, the brain uses the memories of past experiences, emotions and circumstances as a bases for further choices and challenges we face in life. It tries to remind us of the mistakes we’ve made and therefore act differently to avoid the same outcome. However, if we were to deny ourselves knowledge of such experiences then aren’t we liable to make the same mistakes again?

Out of all the potential individuals are human genome could have withstand, it is you and I that are graced with the unfathomable beauty of life. We have by mere luck escaped the eerie clutches of dreary non-existence and absolute nothingness to join the many other souls on this journey through the wonders of this boundless universe. How we spend every second of our time on this earth is of the utmost importance because you can never retrieve that fragile second again. You’ll never have another oppurtunity to use that moment in life.

It is rather disheartening to think that we will all, inevitably, return to our original form of oblivion. Yet, that is exactly why we should strive to make something of the life were living. So that when our time does come, in which it will, we can release ourselves with the peace of mind in knowing that we didn’t let the little we did have go to waste, because as Dawkins so powerfully put it:

“We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born.”

So in actuality it is better we not dwell upon a retreat from existence, but rather embrace the truth in it. There is only one way to beat death, and that is too live a life much too meaningful and distinguished for that frightening darkness to take away from us.

That we can do by utilizing each and every rare gift we’ve been given, sharing happiness with those around us, learning as much as you can about as many things as possible and most importantly to guide each other in right direction as we journey down the narrow road of life. Because eventually we’ll need some one to pick up the pieces - that we purposely left behind.

Hunger is in fact the number one set back to universal health today. One out of 7 people born into the world will not receive enough food to sustain a healthy and substantial life and will unfortunately fall victim to kwashiokor, malnutrition and other severe illness. Two of those seven people will face lifelong disabilities, stagnant mental development and even premature death due to poor nutrition and calorie deficiencies.

They are completely dependant on us and the sustainance we provide which is never enough.

The probability of citizens of these hunger and disease ridden countries ever rising out of the mud is little to non existent. With every new child born into such illnesses and mental incapabilities is one more helpless individual that the country is responsible for caring for. This greatly effects its economic output, making it even more difficult to compete.

As third world countries they suffer from the unsubstantial earnings they make from all their toiling of goods sold to first world countries. These richer countries claim that they want to help them, but companies refuse to pay them for their fill of work. Companies have been so caught up in their own personal agenda that many of them don’t stop to consider how inhumane it is to let real individuals live on alomst nothing. No matter how many jobs you provide it would have been better to employee one and pay him is full then to employee thousands who work for little to nothing.

They constantly take advantage of their vulnerability, and yet we are no different. We say we want to help provide food and shelter but turn our backs when the oppurtunity avalis itself. Will that small chocolate bar or new video game or additional pair of jeans make you feel more satisfied then providing sustainance to those who can’t even afford a loaf of bread? Statistics show that we produce enough food for everyone in the world to have three full meals plus snacks. Many of us will go insane if we miss so much as one meal a day and yet we can’t be grateful enough to try and make a difference, to try and promote universal happiness.

It doesn’t take a mob of protesters in the street rallying down in anger. It’s through the quite thoughts and small conversations and little discussions that people create awareness. It’s supporting a cause even when its just in your mind when you begin to make a difference.