"All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong..." (On the Duty of Civil Disobedience)
Thoreau says that voting is somewhat a game to people, but the reality is that to some people, everything is just a game. I will never understand people that go through life with no moral conscience.. All of your actions mean something in the bigger picture, I truly believe that everything you do will have an affect on someone out there, and that someone could be a stranger, a friend, an acquaintance, someone you are romantically involved with, or that someone could simply be yourself.
What I'm trying to say is, don't treat your life as a game, you are worth so much more than that, there are wonderful things that each and every person on this earth can do but simply don't realize the magnitude of their actions.
Sometimes I get too wrapped up in petty things that don't really matter in the bigger picture and I forget to appreciate the things that really are important and really do matter. The truth is that your life is your chance at making a difference, each life is an opportunity, why waste your opportunity to make a difference? I myself am still trying to teach myself to not live in fear of judgement from the societal norm, live a life that I can look back at when I am 90 and be proud of my accomplishments.
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