Our world so big, its seems vast and infinite, we wonder how we can touch all of it. When we are small and growing our world extends as far as we can see, then we find out there is more and more. The boundaries of our world change as we grow. Infinite and complex, interdependent and balanced finely. Not just how we live now, how we lived yesterday, and tomorrow. For what has been done shapes our today and today and what we do, it shapes all tomorrows. We forget in our small world, that we influence all and every element to follow.

We don’t pay attention in our local village, our immediate days to the global village, the whole of our world. It feels too big, we prefer to be influenced and influence what we can touch, we prefer to change our local village to suit us and we make connection to that big world as we do, as if its remote and not necessarily influenced by us.

We buy some food in our local market, it comes from thousands of miles away. We eat better and with relish. We don’t think about the farming far away, where it cost less and the labourer who helped it grow cannot eat what we eat.

We buy a shirt, we need a shirt. We wear our shirt and keep it well. We paid for that shirt with money we earn. We don’t think a child made our shirt. When I was a child, I went to school, the child who made my shirt, has no school and barely has time to think of play or education. The child who made the shirt has no shirt to wear.

When I ride a bus, an airplane a car it runs on fuel. Most likely that fuel comes from far away. I don’t think about where the fuel comes from, I think about the journey and where I am going. I don’t think that the country where we get our fuel has millions in poverty, has millions without transport, has neighbours close who starve for lack of food and nothing to wear. I don’t think of my part in this, except I get where I need to go.

When I work and earn money, I think about my living and what it can be. I think about how to help family or family think about how to help me nowadays when work is not there. We think local to ourselves for we need be mindful what happens to those we love. And then we think of people far away, who have less than we do. And we give with charity, what we will.

We know there are many less fortunate, and we know there are many more fortunate. We forget in our daily living, where one has less and another has more. Some of us have enough and plenty, some of us has enough. Some of us don’t have much of anything and maybe they will never have enough.

And who are we here in our immediate world to know, what is ours is right, and what others have is right, and what others are desperate for is nothing to do with us?

We don’t want to look too deep at these things daily, if daily living is ok for us. In our world which touches us, we feel remote and disconnected somehow from suffering, unless it is our own.

All the same we are. We can see our world more clearly, we know there is much we can see, and we don’t see how much we rely on our immediate as well as far off communities.

When in our local world, my world of London so busy all day long with things we need and must do, our view is very close to home, and far off places are there to see as media pumps our heads with news. We know this world and what is happening and we help where help can be given. We patch our conscience as we may, and yet we focus most on our day. Can we do more?

I guess with change as change is happening, our local world is so connected, we feel the changes from abroad, that wider global village. Big changes are just on us now as we see our climate change. Some argue its not much we can do to make the world more safe and fair. Yet in principle I think I do.

As we get more of everything, we get to know the truth of living. Knowledge comes our way at first and then we consider what we may do, not just as individuals, but as nations surely do.

Our local global living times. We need our local focus. We need a broader context too, or we will see our world collapse again and ruin faces all.

Mankind in growing in number, and always beyond its means it seems. More people than our ways support across this global living. And yet we know with careful thought there is plenty for everyone who lives and basic living can be good enough.

Its not anyone’s fault our world is uneven as we look out and see the pain. We started from a smaller time where living was never bigger than family ties. And now our global family perceives what everyone has and many experience an end of life before it changes and feeds itself with simple basics. From plenty to famine our attitudes still stuck where we blame and out the fault on them.

In our world with ancient laws to live, we let millions go hungry and millions live in plenty, without regard to humanity. Although we react with humanity, humanity is lost to wealth. We know our imperfect world will never be the equal of human endeavour, until mankind can change its views and start to work together.

I have no answer to this knowing, for many have found when we try to impose new doctrines on the many, that self interest and the will of self, of nations and their Sovereign state, of anything which might infer a loss of status and reward, leads to utter chaos.

Balance of power, there is never one true balance as this world forever shifts beyond its means. Human nature endeavours to consume, where and whatever it can as preference grows. We keep on finding we leave behind, great numbers in a state of ruin.

And even in our local dealing, we try to make ends meet. We try our best in our own back yard, and often fails great numbers close. Some poor in living close to home, most often blamed for their own situation, and we forget in our economy, there is always a limit to what we can have. Some get more and some get less, and some get next to nothing.

And some with conscience and a view would argue what we have is simply what we deserve. And for those with greatest wealth of all, their privilege will taint their view. And for those who can barely live, their view is one of poverty. It smacks of grasping for anything, and without surprise we might acknowledge its an attitude, which comes from having to barely survive.

Our attitudes at home reflect our wealth. Where we have plenty and can give, we do. Providing famine is a forgotten way of living. Or when we find that famine is close to our own history, we are mindful that in surplus times, we store for future famines.

We had no bigger picture back then, when we kept back our finite living, we kept our stores safe from others and left them to the elements. Survival of the fittest drove us hard and charity was never anywhere but home. And only in these modern times has our abundance been shared at all.

No wonder this world plays to our deep inside, where we look for safety. We know from nature how hard it can be, and only as we master our world have we had a luxury to see beyond our local borders and help our global community.

Our shift in conscience and attitudes, its taken thousands of years to develop from idea to actual living. It would be impossible to expect we can make our world perfect for everyone’s living in our lifetime now. Yet we hope.

And hope keeps us giving, even when we have least to spare, for memories are fresh inside, what it feels like when we are hungry and nothing seems to work. Old ways of living don’t change that quick, it takes some generations to see that surplus can be shared. And in that time we may find our hard times return and so balance shifts away from where we may have been.

This perfect imperfect world we have, as long as greed and avarice are prime will never satisfy it wants and need will lead to poverty, as compromise is never made.

Imperfect world, where some live well, in our local village, yet our little village knows deep down, our global village starves and lives in harms way.

Our lot is more by luck and birth, our lot is governed by our labour, our lot is helped by welfare of others and we have moved along the way to sharing more than ever. In a hundred years we see more wealth across this nation shared. Across the world its less than us and we cannot change the way of life. And life is changing anyway as we try to share our fortune.

People find their outlook fits with living in their local village. And outlook shapes their attitudes to neighbours far away. Not just in bleakest terms we help, we try as we may, but attitudes take time to grow and lifetimes come and go.

Our global local outlook shifts, when we feel the pinch of hunger. And our outlook changes back to where we were a thousand years ago. Our local living our global outlook, we change with little steps. Our contribution to this world is to be mindful of our connections and how we prosper where we are.

If we know where harm is done, we need not bolster how its done. As we get to know the truth, we will change our outlook and our way of connection. As our conscience grows there will come a time where what we see and how we behave will change to suit our global village, as we become aware. Until we know the harm we do, we need to make our local world safe. And we tend to deny our impact, when it goes against our needs. We tolerate too well our living when others have none at all and we benefit from their loss of living.

And we can only have this attitude of mind where we view our living with our surplus resources, for if we were starving and had nothing all we would desire is what we have now.

The world plays catch up all the time, in conscience and in attitudes, the same is often reflected in our economic and local well being. When we can fight above subsistence we see the pain of others lives. When we are in pain from our living we fight for what we can.

We know when we have the benefit of living and hindsight how difficult it is, to share the simplest basics of living, when we face attrition. We sometimes view with shocking views of people fighting over aid, and corruption takes it from the needy, and mankind faces its own greed. We see the truth of modern life has made no dent in the human mind, where desire and greed will let another starve and waste away from life itself.

Only when we make our world more safe and more plentiful will our human conscience grow to where we feel we might succeed in all our global village. No power on earth beyond mankind can shift our point of view, except we have not control to change, that’s nature and our climate. And we changed it forever now, we don’t know what we might have done, except the signs are clear. Unless we work together now, there will be nothing left of us, as nature shifts and we will perish, not now but in our future times. Our legacy is always forever.