There is a video on the Internet called “There are reasons to believe in a better world.” It shows quantitative relations between good and bad things that happen in the world at the same time such as:

- For every battle tank manufactured in the world, 131 teddy bears are made;

- For every corrupt person, there are eight thousand donating blood;

- As an engineer designs a new weapon, there are a million mothers making chocolate cakes;

This initiative lets us, human beings, have more hope in the world we live in and that, after all, there are more people wising well than evil. Have you ever stopped to think that, when a person is dying, another is being born? It’s so much more comfortable to think that in spite of tragedies that happen every day, thousands of good things emerge to make up for them.

If there were only tragedies or just good actions in the world, we would take life for granted. We would not have so many medical and technological advances. Or, imagine how bad it would be if there were only sunny days and never cloudy and rainy days? Then there will be no more days for watching movies, reading books, drinking hot chocolate. That would not be right, wouldn’t it?

That is, there must be this balance, yin and yang, black and white, cold and hot, good and bad. These opposites form people with different characteristics that complete each other, though. Let us seek a better world with actions that are beneficial to society. It doesn’t have to be something complex; it may be a simple “good morning” said to people or even adopting a helpless animal. These things are not far from our reality but we need only a nudge to get used to new ways of living.

In the end, we will realize that, if we count, the number of bad things will be small if compared to thousands of positive actions. 

That’s why, react.

Watch the video that caught so much attention