Every day we see so many facts, motivational things and all but do that really influence us much? Just yesterday, I saw news saying two whales found in Germany whose belly was full of plastics. What do you think, this big news gonna motivate thousands of people to not through the plastic on the ocean? You may answer No. So, what is the solution if we can not change ourselves or our mindset after knowing the facts? For me, maybe friendship can help in such a situation.

Let me Explain

Convincing someone to change their mind is as hard as changing someone's religion. You can not make others change their minds no matter how much true fact to present in front of them. This happens in terms of everything; from personal habit-changing to political-diplomatic policy changing. It's really tough to influence someone if you can not make them feel you are in the same tribe. Like if you first make friendship with them to achieve what you want it will work better.

Friendship helps to make influences. people usually agree to someone who is close to them even if the fact is not that ethical. But on the opposite, it's really hard to convince them to believe, follow, inhabit something if you are on the opposite side of the table. As I said earlier, no matter how much concrete fact you present to anyone or to the society, they will believe or behave what they believe, what they feel good, comfortable or what they usually do.

So, only presenting facts will never gonna work to change society, help the earth or even a single person, if I say it more precisely. Sometimes different facts blow our minds like the percentage of deforestation, the bad effects of drug addiction or the side effects social media addiction, the war situation around the world, the number of people die every day because of hunger and many other things. But those do not motivate us personally, that much, to do something actively. In that case, we have to befriend the person, the Government has to befriend us, there should be friendship among world politicians and all. We all know that those are not always possible.

But there is no boundary to start doing something from our personal level, right?