One Choice We Don't Have

For this week's reflection, I wanted to take the time and reflect about one choice we don't have.  This is one of the sections in our book.  "We have no choice about whether to be world changers" (118).  This quote from the book was very interesting to me.  This is true because people have to be world changers.  That is one choice that we don't have.  Later on in the section, Lappe says that "the choice we have is not whether, but only how, we change the world" (119).  This makes perfect sense because the world does not change on its own.  People can't just sit around and do nothing with their lives because our lives and our world do not gain anything from it.  Some people may thing we have that choice whether or not we should be world changers by simply doing nothing with our lives.  What they don't understand is that they are changing the world by starting a trend that people in the world.  For example, if I kid decides that he wants stay at home, then his or her friends would just end up staying at either their own homes or going to each others homes to hangout.  Another example that specifically applies to our class is the obesity rates in children being high.  According to kidshealth.org, 1 out of 3 kids are now obese or overweight.  This is because kids now a day would rather stay at home with their friends and play video games instead of go outside and exercise.  This is just an example that explains how what we do changes our world today.  There is one thing that we need to know.  We can't stop changing the world.  Each decision we make changes the world and the world will not stop changing.