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​If you're service club has given up on getting one wheelchair in another part of the world, you'd better realize that this is not the club that will make more impact in the world. 

They would fold up in the first glance of a difficulty. It doesn't matter if it's organizing a dinner fundraising, advocating for better policies at the provincial level or sending life-saving equipment to another country.

This is not a difficulty question. This is an attitude and a mindset issue. 

You're wasting your time persuading this people who had been convinced that the way to go is to the same thing all over again, pat themselves in the back for their fortunes, and give some money to charity and call it a day! 

That's not service, is it?  That's not even impact!
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Recall at time when you watched a great performance.

I was at the conference a few years ago, and the speaker spoke in a TEDX style, with a picture of Martin Luther King's wife and her mother to signal that her family is very impactful and famous.

The crowd roared and rose from their seats after her speech.

The rest joined the bandwagon and applauded her for a few minutes.

For a hundred people in the room, I was the only one that didn't rise, there was no occasion to arise from.

The speech is good enough but not that great. 

The crowd wanted to boost their own egos by showing that they're part of that 'in" group.

That 'they really get it!"

This was the crowd's performance as much as the speaker's.

Two news that seemed to juxtapose the paradox of sainthood and humanity in a matter of few weeks. 

Pope Francis' death emphasizes the consistent life devoted to compassion and social justice.

An American pastor indicted for misconduct. 

The pope is regard as close to deity for the Roman Catholics but he's human too like all of us. He stumbled, made mistakes, makes enemies out of allies, and isolated those who found him too liberal. 

The pastor is well-respected in his congregation but he also needs forgiveness and redemption just like all of us. It was a fall from grace that even the best person on earth call fall into. 

The pope and the pastor are both in the spiritual leadership roles but don't put them in a pedestal, because one way or another, they will disappoint. There's no such thing as a perfect life or a perfect leader.

As everyone of us who strives in life,  we will disappoint too. 
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