Essay

“If you are not making someone else’s life better, you are wasting your time.” (Will Smith)

Time — is something precious and every living beeing’s time is counted. We don’t know how much time we have in life. We just know it’s not going to be endless. So why should we be wasting our time if it’s so precious? We shouldn’t! But what can we do to not waste the little of time we have in life? What is considered wasting of time? Do we squander our time when we study? Or while we eat? What about when we hang out with friends?

Due to Will Smith a waste of time is everything, that does not make someone else’s life better.

But how can we make someone else’s life better? Actually it is not as hard as it sounds. You don’t have to cure cancer or fight world hunger. It’s not about providing world freedom or inventing the world’s newest technology.

Volunteering, helping in projects or donating money are examples how you could make someone else’s life better. But also little things like smiling at somebody in the street, giving up your seat in the bus, opening the door for somebody can make this person’s day. They will feel better. And after all you will realize that you will feel better too.

The best way to make a change in someone’s life is to invent something. It doesn’t have to be something big or expensive, it just needs to be something newly-created. Collect ideas, think about what people might need, try to consider lots of different people’s interests and after researching hard and putting many thoughts into it you will finally come up with something new. An invention, which could be realized to change the world or at least change some people’s lifes. It is inevitable to think outside the box. Inventions change the world and they change the people living in it. There can’t be progress without inventions. And a world without progress is a stagnating world, where people will find no place to fulil themselves. In this world of technology we need progress and therefore we need new inventions because we are not satisfied with the same things over and over again anymore.Hence making a real change in the world, which has an impact on someone’s life can only by done by doing something that does not exist right now.

After all this beeing said you now may think that actions like reading a book or attending classes at university are selfish things because they don’t contribute to somebody else’s wellbeing. In some way they are. But what counts is the intention. If the reason of studying is to be able to invent something in the future to help people, the intention is as well to improve someone’s life, therefore you are not wasting your time.

Why is everything selfish determined a waste of time? Because what would the world be if everybody would only care about themself? There wouldn’t exist one world with all people living together. It would be everybody living for himself. And how can somebody be happy without relations to other humans? We need to fulfil ourselves by building up friendships, relationships and connections to others to be able to live a happy life.

Therefore we should consider the following sentence a lot in life: Treat anybody like you want to be treated because you only get back what you give. If all people think like this and if everybody tries really hard to make someone else’s life better, we are going to have a better world, a world where all people are happier.

Obviously this is a perfect scenario, which is not going to be implemented like this in reality. But thinking that it is never going to be exactly like this in real life isn’t the allowance to act selfish.

At least trying to make someone else’s life better is a first step. Make an effort to do selfless actions. Think to invent new things. Put your own ideas into practice.

Be brave to make a change! Try it! Start it today! Do it right now! It does not matter how you do it, the only thing that matters is that you do it!

And you will see, life will give back to you what you put into it.