As a student, how can you be an advocate of social change? This is a challenging question for me.

Being
an advocate is a previlege. Anyone can be an advocate in their own ways, it has no age requirement,
whether you are old or young as long as you are capable to help and make change. But I think being an
advocate is not easy.

There are a lot of dreadful things that is happening in our society. It seems that chaos and problems
don't want to leave us.

As time pass by, the situation of our society also retrogrades. The poor becomes poorer, bad people
continue to degenerate, corrupt government officials becomes more corrupt. The status of our society is
getting worse but I do believe that we can make a change if will hold the hand of each and together, we
will make our society better.

“Most people want to change the world to improve their lives, but the world they need to change first is
the one inside themselves.”- John C. Maxwell

Change must start first in ourself, if we can't change ourself, how can we change our society? I
remember the qoute "Be the change you want to see". This quote really create a bang in my heart and
beared in my mind. As well this story that I've read before in our module, which is about a man who
wanted to change the world but ended up realizing that he first need to change himself. Here is the
story:

"When I was a young man, I wanted to change the world. I found it was difficult to change the world, so I
tried to change my nation. When I found I couldn't change the nation, I began to focus on my town. I
couldn't change the town and as an older man, I tried to change my family. Now, as an old man, I realize
the only thing I can change is myself, and suddenly I realize that if long ago I had changed myself, I could
have made an impact on my family. My family and I could have made an impact on our town. Their
impact could have changed the nation and I could indeed have changed the world."

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” said by Leo Tolstoy.
Mahatma Gandhi also once said," We must become the change we want to see in the world". So, in
order for me to be an advocate of social change, I need to change myself first and be a better person to
be an example to many people. In order to make change, I will a be blessing to many people and spread
love as well as kindness. Because I do believe that if I do it, many people will be inspired to do it too and
it will have a domino effect. If all the people become good and care for each other, there will be a social
change.

If you were able to change yourself, you will be a living testimony that change is possible. Let us be the
light in this dark world and be a helping hand to other people because if we do, we can be able to lit the
fire in other people's heart and together we will shine and the light will invade darkness. Together, we
can make the world better.

It was the American author and speaker John C. Maxwell who wrote: “Most people want to change the
world to improve their lives, but the world they need to change first is the one inside themselves.”