Some­times I look at my life and ask myself why I don’t live bet­ter. Why don’t I invest in the worth­while things of life? Deep down I want to make a dif­fer­ence in the world; in people’s lives. I want to help, love, smile, laugh, give more.
But where do I start? What can I do? How can I do it? Am I alone in this? That’s what this site’s about – start­ing the jour­ney. Being a dif­fer­ence is chang­ing the way we live to some­thing bet­ter. It’s being the per­son we want every­one else to be. It’s more than just the money we give, the peti­tion we sign, the web­site we build but it is who we are when we’re at home, work, school, the mall, the car. Being a dif­fer­ence is being unexpected.

It’s when peo­ple expect anger, cru­elty, bit­ter­ness, resent­ment, harsh­ness, or humil­i­a­tion; when they expect pain, vengeance, hatred, or indif­fer­ence and yet are shown com­pas­sion, for­give­ness, and kind­ness. Being a dif­fer­ence is the oppo­site of indif­fer­ence. It doesn’t look away when peo­ple are suffering.

Being is more than doing and the scope of what is accom­plished mat­ters less than the heart it is done with. Being hap­pens in the great times and in the quiet times.

I’m at a point in my life where I’ve looked at where I am and real­ized that I want more. Not more money (although when the bills come it some­times feels like it), power, fame, glory but what I really want is meaning.

So, what exactly do we have in mind?

Here’s a start: When peo­ple expect your worst offer them your best. When they expect anger, cru­elty, bit­ter­ness, resent­ment, harsh­ness, or humil­i­a­tion; when they expect you to serve them pain, vengeance, hatred, or indif­fer­ence sur­prise them and instead show them com­pas­sion, for­give­ness, and kindness.

You can be a dif­fer­ence for good in the life of some­one today; right now. Life is too short to be mis­er­able and kind­ness is good for you.
Look­ing for some­thing good to do? Some­thing worth­while? Look­ing for a pur­pose? Try help­ing some­one. Try hold­ing the door for the next mother with a baby stroller you meet at the mall. Try giv­ing the slow fast food kid a smile and a kind word instead of a frown and a curse. Try click­ing here and giv­ing ten bucks to get a poor fam­ily a net to pro­tect them from deadly malaria.

Life seems a lot brighter when we take our eyes off our own two feet. Hap­pi­ness breeds hap­pi­ness and if you bring it to some­one else you’ll find some wait­ing there for you when you get there.

Gandhi said “We must become the change we want to see in the world.” That’s what we’re on about here. We want to be the dif­fer­ence we want to see in the world. We want to be and live the way we were meant to as human beings.

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