You can contribute to organizations that help others. You can contribute, dream, educate, inspire, show kindness, persevering, and by setting an example. It is your choice, but there are lots of ways to help make the world a better place. What you choose to do depends on what you think is broken, or needs to be improved.
I support our military veterans through a half dozen organizations. I have donated both cash and blood to the American Red Cross. I have both worked and donated to Habitat for Humanity. What can you do to make the world a better place? I can’t speak for you, but what has worked for me is to become involved in groups which share my interests. The future is better, even if the progress comes with a few challenges.
Before that, it was a telegram or a letter. Before land lines were prevalent, you had to be a good friend of a neighbor with a phone if you wanted to talk. Before that, it was a land line or nothing. How many of you appreciate how much better life is in the era of cell phones? I grew up before cell phones, and marveled at the wonders of early car phones (any one remember the Miami Vice brick?). There might be some differences of opinion about what ‘better’ means, but that is a debate for a different day. I can think of no higher aspiration than to make the future better for the next generation, and those who will come after. You can do more, you can be better, and you can help others do the same. Regardless of what has happened to you in the past, the future is an open door. Why is working towards a better future important? We cannot unlive the past, but we can change the future. By changing the future, we can help prevent others from suffering through the same painful history we lived through. While we cannot change the past, we can, with courage, change the future. The quote also reminds us that we need not live it again. Whether it is your personal pain, or a pain on a societal scale, it is done and in the past. However happy, however painful, it has happened and is over and done. What has happened is done and gone, there is no changing it. This quote reminds us that we cannot change the past. He has helped make the world a better place for those who will follow. His legacy continues, on and off the field.