A beautiful young lady called Dora gave me a call a short while back. She lives on the other end of the planet in a far far country, and she happened to hear of the incidence which shook Egypt and wanted to speak about it and understand what happened. Although remote from everything here, she felt involved somehow owing to her original ancestry from this country.

At the end of the call she said “I want to help, but I’m not sure how. I don’t think I can do anything; there’s only me here who believes in this, and I cannot do anything alone from a distance.”

Her words really moved me! Not only because it’s amazing to find a 14-years-old interested somehow with Egyptian internal stories, but because she’s also thought about the idea of help and was wondering what to do - even worrying about it being ONLY HER.

She made me feel somewhat ashamed as I’m sure many people would if they heard her. We all live RIGHT HERE and all what’s happening is affecting us directly. Yet only a small handful ever bothers to ask themselves “What can I do to help” in fact most are probably wondering “How can I get out of here and leave this mess” or worse “Let them all burn in hell whoever they are.”

“What can I do to help” really is the theme of the day! If each thinks for one instant of what is the biggest issue they care to get involved into and just ask this question, they’re sure to find ways to help.

The next thing that amazed me in Dora’s conversation is this feeling that “it’s only me” and that’s most common among people who even wish to help. “What can I do in all this. It needs an army” and many other similar impressions about the smallness of any action vs. the bigger and collective action of the many. Here I found only the famous reply

“The flap of a butterfly’s wing in one part of the world creates a hurricane in another.”

There’s nothing called “it’s just me” or “what can I do when I’m so small.”

This world we live in is a complex combination of small, in fact very infinitesimally small things! As long as you’re larger than an atom or a nucleus, you probably have a larger chance of influencing things your own way.

I proposed to Dora one thing she can do to help: she can connect with friends from Egypt, young ladies or young men her age, and start chatting about the topic and asking them to also get involved here locally.

What do you think would be other ways to help? Can you make some more suggestions for Dora?

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