WorldSave

I realized that not everyone will understand what is meant by the WorldSave slogan: Find the bars to your cage… and break them.

Breaking a cage is obvious enough, but what about these bars?

The quote comes from paraphrasing the book Ishmael by Daniel Quinn. In it, he mentions how, if you don’t know where the bars to your cage are, how can you break them? You may want to break them, you’re raring to go, but you just don’t know how because you can’t see them in the first place. An example would be the hippie movement. They wanted to tear down something. Change something. But they didn’t know what they were fighting against. Not specifically. What were the bars holding this society together? How could they break them to bring the meaningless society down?

WorldSave hopes to help you identify the bars to both world and personal cages. We hope to help you figure out whats standing in your way of a better world. Once we know the problems, we can move to change them. When the problems go away, we’ve effectively broken a bar. Eventually, when all the bars are broken, we have demolished the cage, and we should find outselves standing in a bright, open, free world. An example of a broken cage and free world would be the eradication of poverty and/or world hunger. It would be a healthier world with healthier people, who are at least a little less pissed off at each other. It would mean less war and more global cultural understanding and tolerance. It would mean total non-violence. Everything and anything that would make this world a better place is a cage torn down.

As for your personal cages, I hope you can find whatever it is that is holding you back. Tear down that cage that makes you scared to do what’s right. Break the bars so you take responsibility for your own health and don’t settle with your sickness. Don’t just step out of your cage—break it. Totally tear down the walls so that you couldn’t run back into it, couldn’t be captured again, even if you wanted to. Set yourself up for success. Do what you know you need to in order to accomplish your goal not just today, but tomorrow, and the next day, and the next, until you find the cage has decomposed into nothingness.

Tips on how to succeed in your personal goals and break down your cages will follow in subsequent blogs. As for breaking down global cages, that’s what WorldSave is all about.

Lia Cross

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