I’ve been wondering if the old adage that everyone has a calling could possibly be true. I personally am not a religious person, so I don’t feel a “higher power” telling me to do anything, but I do have a constant nagging feeling that there is something I am meant to do, but I’m just not doing it. I think many people feel this, but just don’t or can’t act on it.
I feel that my “calling” is to help people, especially those who are living in poverty in underdeveloped countries. I would love to work for a relief organization that gets food aid or healthcare aid to those countries, or maybe even a company that gets clean water to rural areas that desperately need it. Right now, as some of you know, I have an ok job with a good company, but it’s corporate and I just don’t feel satisfied (or challenged for that matter) at all in my current position. I feel that I have so much more to offer and I’m just not utilizing it.
If I could create my perfect job, or career, it would be getting vaccines, food or water to people in countries that are affected by money-hungry governments and corporations taking advantage of the small farmers and townspeople that have no choice but to sell their crops for nothing close to what they should be receiving. There are people in these countries that suffer from diseases that governments and people in the US and other first-world countries care nothing about until these diseases make their way to our people. Polio, for instance, could be completely eradicated, however the vaccines just do not get to everyone who need them. Cholera is an epidemic in some countries like Haiti, but because the US government doesn’t have anything to gain from sending vaccines to those countries, they don’t help (same goes for the EU). If H1N1 hadn’t come to the United States, the government wouldn’t have offered help to Mexico, I’m sure of it. If you look at the history of the US government helping other countries with either food, vaccines or other aid, it is usually for political reasons, and occasionally to give restitution to a group of people or country that they have wronged in the past.
I could ramble on and on, but my point is that I want to help people in some way, directly. What is it that you’ve always wanted to do or feel the strong desire to do, but aren’t? Or are you?
Open Your Mind! 