Aspirations for Social Responsibility
As I look back over the past week (and beyond), my choices to go about daily life was highly influenced by convenience over social responsibility. My subconscious mantra was (is) this: “The more instant or convenient, fast things are, the better.” To justify that, I thought being away from the comforts of home is a good excuse for my disability not to think of how my actions may affect others surrounding me. After all, we live in an era of everything instant, from messaging, instagram, noodles or coffee. We are immersed in technology at its best and people behind it seem to never sleep just to make the most important breakthroughs. I am not saying I’m completely against such achievements but in a way I see we live in double standards, we are unaware of how the things we create and we perceive as something good may also destroy or even more so dehumanize us.
As an assessment on my social responsibility aspirations, I believe I should have a crystal clear idea on the things I act upon, whether or not they result to just material payoff or human value. My education at Hult may either end up being just a certificate instead of actual self-improvement intellectually, emotionally etc. to contribute to the seeming cliché, in making the world a better place. Everything is a matter of personal choice. It’s easy if I say, I prefer human value, but then again, I have to deal with human nature’s tendency to inconsistencies. I have to admit, It’s frustrating how trying to be consistent is already exhausting enough in itself.
I take the taxi over the metro in any way I could. I leave the lights on , air-condition on, stay under the hot shower as much as I please, not thinking about how people in other parts of the world don’t have access to either energy or clean water, or that I am causing environmental degradation every move I make. I dine in fast food chains not caring about how whether or not environmental sustainability in food production was