Gordon Graham: "Let's make the World a better place!"

If the pandemic and the last (almost) 2 years has shown us two important things; just how fragile the state not only of our planet's tenuous grasp on balance is and our physical health’s need for care and attention.

However, it's also shown us a bit more than that.

Covid-19 has highlighted the many shortcomings of our society from a psychological and mental health perspective - which goes beyond purely staying healthy physically.

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So, with this in mind, I went searching for ways to make the world a better place. 

Of course, this started in a grandiose manner; you know what I mean, right? End world hunger, eliminate poverty, search for equality, and find a cure to deadly diseases.  

Sadly, the magnitude of this all made me powerless and unable to bring about meaningful change, so I decided to try something closer to home and well start small.

That's when I came across this list entitled, Little ways to make the world around you a better place!

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So here goes, how do we make the world a little better in little ways every day? 

Here are 10 tips on how to make the world a better place:

1. Turn off the lights when you leave a room
2. Find a dog. Hug it
3. Put your phone away when having dinner with friends
4. If you can, go and give blood
5. Pass on your favorite book to someone
6. Spend an evening baking. And take the results into work
7. Pick some litter up off the street and put it in the trash
8. Talk less, listen more
9. Support independent businesses
10. Give stuff away that you don’t use

For more ways to make the world a little better, visit. www.metro.co.uk.

Try some of these, hell, try all of them, and let’s find out if we can use little things to make the world a better place.

Good luck!

Gordon

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