Lets Make A Difference

I want to make a difference.  I want things to be better.  Not for me, but for the world.  And yet I feel so small.  So I am going back to school. 
I am getting very nervous as Monday Jan. 9 gets closer because that is the first day of school.  I have been out of that world for such a long time.  And in that time I have become less engaged than I ever was. 
I never really got involved in the world around me.  I was selfish that way.  I had my opinions as we all do.  Everyone has an option about something.  Even if it is only the temperature of the bath water.  And as far as my opinions go, some people agree with mine, some people don't, and a lot of people don't care about what I care about.  That is okay.  I guess what I am hoping to find is a way to reach the people who do care about the things I care about. 
I don't want to change there minds.  (Well, actually I do.) What I really want, though is to engage those people in a conversation.  I want those who disagree with me to try to change my mind.  And I want to try to change the minds of those who disagree with me.  With that type of dialogue I think the world could be a better place.
Right now it seems like everyone wants what they want.  That is not possible.  But maybe somewhere in the middle is were the world lives in peace.  That is why I am going back to school.  At one point in my life I had the skills to use (at that time) the latest technology to reach out.  To be  a part of "what was going on" in the world.  Then I fall behind.  Not because I could not keep up with technology and what was going on in the world.  It was because I became interested in only what was happening to me.  I think that was wrong of me.  We can't live in a shell and then be upset when events such as the economy pierce that shell. 
So now at the age of 50 I have decided to go back out into the world and try to re-engage.  How will it work out? I don't know and probably won't know for a couple of years.  My first goal with going to school is to learn a skill that I can put to use to make a living (Computer Technology). My ultimate goal is to get a Bachelors degree in Political Science.  Only time will tell how well I do.  Here's to the future.