Just today, I had someone (not on Rethos!) comment on the “credibility” or “institutional backing” for my personal efforts to introduce the new Symbol of Sustainability to the world.

I was shocked.

I thought to myself – “this is one of the reasons we’re heading toward a bad place in the world” – “People’s first reaction is scepticism and at worst cynicism”

Unless something or someone is ‘BRANDED’ and endorsed by media or existing industrial / political institutions, we are suspicious of the motivation. We are jealous of the public regard. We pull away human kindness and support of personal creative efforts.

We somehow believe that our support of these unknown agents of change “takes” something from us, instead of the TRUTH, which is that they are actually “gifting” us with their energy, focus and passion to provoke change.

Many people (and Rethosarians) around the world are investing their energy and efforts to address the complaints of the majority, but sadly remain unsupported by the very people they are passionately wanting to help.

The majority of people seem to have lots of time to criticise, and complain about the sad state of the world, but when unsupported agents of change come into their lives and communities, the first reaction is “who are you, who is really behind you, and what EXACTLY are you are doing?”

Change happens organically.

How can we know EXACTLY what we’re doing? – or even what influence we are having? We need the KIND, POSITIVE feedback of moral supporters on how we can improve our message, otherwise, how can we continue?

Rethosarians deserve LIFE SUPPORT to compensate for our energies expended on helping humanity first, and KINDNESS to confirm our acceptance and personal security as Agents of Change.

Everyone has their own valuable contribution to solve the problems in the world – they may not be perfect – completely planned out – or even have a very clear idea of the final objective … but let’s not extinguish those little flames by exhaling cynical corporate CO2 attitudes.. let’s “Conspire” (breathe in together) to feed oxygen to each little cell that can change the world.