Whaddup beauties!
The topic for today's Motivational March begins with a little story! Settle in with a cup of tea because this one is gonna get a little deep. I was helping my little sister with a project for school, I think the issue was Global Issues. The simple thing to do was choose an organisation of your choice out of the list provided and go into depth with who they are, what they do, why they do it .. you get the point.
I told my sister that she should do UNICEF because that was my favourite out of the list coming just in front of World Vision. Being very excited since leaving school last year, I haven't done any kind of project in a long, long time!
When I was researching with my little sister about UNICEF, what they do, where they do it, why they do what they do and how it helps; I realised just how amazing they really are. I knew in the first place that they were great, but I hadn't done my research. Providing simple things such as education, health, protection amongst other things that we all take for granted.
UNICEF supports almost every place I can think of besides:
- Bahamas, Brunei Darussalam, Cyprus, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Malta, Mauritius, Monaco and Singapore.
Basically what I got out of this research project was total amazement and a strong sense of motivation to do whatever I could to put my two cents into helping others as well. I found it so heart warming that so many people can come together and help others in such a huge way. It's the hardest feeling to explain, I wish so much that I could travel, blog and all at the same time make a huge difference in poverty stricken people's lives all over the world. Honestly, if I had a magical wish to use, I would wish that I could do just that. The amount of accomplishment you would feel by helping others and also that warm, fuzzy feeling in your heart because you KNOW you've made a difference.. ahh, bliss, I WANT that feeling!
It can be as simple as taking out the bins for the elderly lady you live near, helping elderly cross the road and then it goes right up to going to, say, Africa to help out the underprivileged individuals. It DOESN'T matter how big the task is to you, it could mean everything to that person even if it is just helping someone reach something on the shelf in the supermarket, it doesn't matter! Yeah this got deep, but sometimes I think so much about something and get lost in the whole world of it.. don't we all sometimes? Don't deny it :)
I thought it would be fitting seen as I was bursting with motivation this afternoon that I should do my second Motivational March post! Drawing inspiration from Nikki Phillipi's videos this year (each month has a topic), I thought I would create my OWN version. I am in no way trying to take all of her ideas, I was inspired by her idea, so I adapted it to myself.
I know money is the main thing we all aim for in our worlds as content, middle-classed individuals with a family who are all healthy, have a roof over our heads, food, water .. etc, but I want to volunteer my time (being unemployed) to volunteer for places who want people to help! I'm sure to some people the thought of spending so much time doing work or "slaving" over others is a waste of time because they aren't being paid.. I know how that feeling is, but, I know that the experience of helping others would be worth it. Whenever I'd watch 'World's Strictest Parents', the really annoying and troubled kids would be sent to a religious family who are devoted to helping others and countless times the kids have been sent to a soup kitchen and all they do is complain about serving the homeless. I remember thinking, wow, why are YOU complaining?! You have a couple hours serving food to then go home to a bed, a house, food of your own choice and technology.
There was this verse in Philippians 2:14-15 in my bible that I read not too long ago:
"Do everything without complaining and arguing, so that no one can criticise you"
That spoke so clearly to me, since reading that verse I have applied it to my own life. So far, so good! No, I'm not trying to push my religion down your throat, take of it what you will but please don't bash me for being open about my religion. I believe that each and every person has a RIGHT to openly show their religion but I think it's wrong to completely bash someone down with your religion and really shove it in their faces.
I found that my favourite verses in the bible come with meaning that even people that are not religious can take from them.
Anyway folks, I think I began to babble there :P
I hope you don't mind! My whole feeling about my blog is totally changing.. I feel like I want to do motivational posts AS WELL AS beauty and fashion. I am having a hard time mashing it together, ha ha ha! Please forgive and let me sort it out :)
Hope you enjoyed this and took some motivation from it!
Au Revoir!
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