Because we can!
This is the explanation form of, "Do what you can." If all you think you can do is talk and share, than do so. Start a blog and see what you can do. You'll probably be surprised what you can do once you start experimenting.
As a child I went to the zoo a couple times and enjoyed it quite a lot. However there was this one time I'm not likely to forget. A little over a hundred feet from the lion's enclosure. My mother was about a hundred feet ahead of me around a corner, when an idea came to mind. Could I get a lion to roar back?
Normally roaring, yelling, would get a kid in trouble. This would be no exception, but maybe my mom wouldn't hear that time went through my head. If the lion roared back it would be worth it.
Normally we wouldn't think a child of five or six years could get a lion to respond to a roar. It's just a little kid. Yet, if I didn't try I'd never know if I could.
Normally a child would get in trouble for disrupting others in a public place. With nobody closer than my mother, it seemed like that wouldn't be a problem.
It seems like a once in a lifetime set-up when I really think about it. How often does the opportunity, awareness, idea, boldness and ability come together? ow often does that lead to something lasting?
When I think about that, it makes sense how few efforts are actually started. Getting people together to talk about delicate information is hard. Finding possible partners is about as hard. Finding quality partners is even harder. Everybody is asking "Why should we?"
Paying attention to possible risk is good, but that shouldn't make you shackled by fear. If only the best are to do something, we'd be way understaffed and experience would be near impossible to obtain.
If you don't do it, who will?
Does it need to be done? Do it, or do your part to make it happen. Just because your efforts might not do much directly doesn't make it not worth doing. Just because others could do it better doesn't mean they will be enough, or even try. Just because you might do better at something else doesn't mean the task before you is any less needed.
Yet there is more to this than just doing what is needed, because there will always be those things and people standing in your way. There is no end to the obstacles that will stand in front of you; defying your goals and dreams. They will say it's impossible.
It would be a few years before people started saying that to my face. I don't boast about the victory I'm about to have. I don't insult them, or tell them about what they are doing. Instead I tell them, "Just watch." If I fail, I fail. If I succeed, I succeed. Had I been confronted before letting rip with a roar, that phrase might have entered my life earlier.
Experiment to learn, and learn you shall.
Just because you aren't good at something isn't a reason not to do it. The fact that you can do it okay is more of a reason to do it than not. When you're not good at something there is usually plenty of room to learn. It can motivate others who are more skilled/talented/whatever than you to help out. If you haven't done it before, there is a ton to learn about the activity and your reaction to it.
The point of the phrase "just watch" is that they don't know for sure what will happen, same as me. Even 1% chance of victory is enough if you're that 1%. Somebody has to be it. It could be me. I won't know till I try. You won't know till you try. They won't know till we try.
Standing there alone I roared with all I had to get a response from those lions. No real reason to believe I could, except that I believed. In response to a little child's effort, a lion roared back a challenge. If something needs doing, do your part, because you might be that person nobody has reason to expect something from, but still gets a reaction.
Have fun, spread the word and tell me what you think,
Igen Oukan
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