Light To Others: Offering Hope To Others In Times Of Challenges

One of the purposes of light is to provide assistance to help people see their way through. In the thick dark night, just by introducing light of any intensity, the room will be illuminated to the intensity of the light that is shone and the people in the room will feel better. There is nothing as frustrating as being in darkness without hopes of having light, but at the introduction of light, the frustration will fizzle away. You will agree with me that light does not struggle with darkness but just disperses it. In the same way, the light you shine to the world in terms of your acts of kindness, goodness, help, charity, will definitely go a long way to restore hopes to the dying world.

In the time of crisis and at the times of challenges, what will make a difference is the good acts of good people that will come as a light. The darker the darkness, the more impact the light will be. Similarly, the more cruelty that is experienced in the world, the bigger the impacts of your kindness will make. There was a time, some weeks back, I was trying to go from the bedroom to restroom in the night but there was a power outage. Just to go from the bed to the bathroom which is just a few steps, but because there was no light, I stumbled more than once while going. This was when I understood the potency of light.

Your good actions to your neighborhood can significantly affect the world at large. When you light a candle at night and someone else comes to light their own from yours and it continues, before you know it, the whole place will be full of light. In the same way, your acts of goodness that you do to one person is like a ripple reaction which will also extend to others and this will lead to the world becoming better. You do not solve the problem in the world by complaining about it but by acting in your own capacity and doing well at least to your neighbourhood. It is true that you cannot change the entire world but you can change your immediate environment and the effect will be felt far and wide.

One thing that strikes about light is that even in the deepest of darkness, the effect will still be felt. In fact, the value of light is more amplified in the midst of gross darkness. The value of help you render is not necessarily a function of the size but the relevance and of course, its availability when it is needed. Take this instance; if you are very thirsty on a hot and sunny day, what will make a difference in your life at that point is not something very big or expensive but something as seemingly little as a glass of water. At that point, the value of the help (which is the cup of water), will become increased and it will have more effect than a pack of pizza even though the pizza may be costlier than water.

Doing good and acting kindly is not reserved for some selected few but for everyone as a duty of our humanity. You do not need to wait until you are rich or until you have abundant of material resources before you do good - even with what you have and from where you are, there is something within you or from you that can serve to help humanity. As long as it is in your heart to do good, you will discover that it will find a place in your heart to do it and you will see that you have things to help humanity with. Even a smile, a kind word, a word of advice, an idea, etc can be what someone needs to make their day worthwhile. Trust me, it does not cost much to be good but only when your heart is involved.

When you have stayed in a place and left, what will they remember you for? As a matter of fact, you cannot force people to create a good memory of you, but you will be remembered by how you have lived. That is, your memory will be remembered by one of these: either the problems you created or the ones you have provided the solutions to solve. No one is born and given the exclusive gift of being good. Doing good and showing kindness is a function of the choice that you have made to become a beacon of hope and to shine the light to the dark world.

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