Essay by Luke Foster
“Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.”
Malala Yousafzai
I felt deeply sad when I wrote this very short essay this evening but when I added this Malala qoute I felt lighter and filled with hope.
I’ve got to be a lot less self-centred in my art and writing and focus on the state of the world. The big issues are world peace, saving the environment and reducing global poverty and saving this beautiful blue planet forever. I should give small donations to charities and aid agencies when I can afford it and try to always come from a place of compassion and kindness and not selfishness always trying to figure out what I can get out of the situation.
I really hope I can get my second book: Am I Going in Circles? Published this or next year as I think there are some good ideas in it on how to address the major issues I mentioned earlier.
If I do my ten drawings a day project, I hope to build up positivity. However, it’s the world leaders and think tanks that I hope can try to build a sense of local and global community to work together with solidarity as this shall be the only way for us to conquer these problems with wisdom and compassion.
However, we are not alone as there have people working for decades trying to address these problems such as the Dalai Lama, all the Popes, environmental, health and poverty charities and aid agencies, and people like Malala Yousafzai, Doctor Suzuki and David Attenborough.
I feel that me alone with what I achieve is only a single rain drop. But if the global community works together then that makes up vast oceans of healing water.
“The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.”
Dalai Lama
In conclusion I feel its with great tenacity of spirit and global brainstorming that its completely possible to solve these massive problems.
