We've queried some of our favourite celebrities and asked them what they would do if they had world changing capabilities. Here’s what they had to say …..
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If you could change one thing about the world – just wave a magic wand and bring about some sort of global transformation – what would you change? Just pause and think for a moment. What would you do? Would you eradicate poverty? End world hunger? Establish equality? Bring about world peace? Delete Fifty Shades of Gray from the collective human consciousness? Make chocolate a basic human right?
It’s an interesting thought experiment, but it also leaves you with you a very sad realization: the world really does need change. But where do we even begin?
We've queried some of our favourite celebrities and asked them what they would do if they had world changing capabilities. Here’s what they had to say …
If you could change one thing about the world, what would it be, and why?
If I could change one thing about the world, I would eliminate all weapons and guns from the world. No human being should have access to guns or any kind of weapons.
Areej Chaudhary
If I could change one thing about the world, it would be [that I’d make a] money free world. Everything that is happening is all because of money. So I would like to create a system without money where nobody has to face any kind of problem. Only love and humanity will exist.
The thing that I’d want to change about the world is jealousy. I wish that we stop getting jealous of each other and we start living in certain peace with all the gratitude. This is why there are a lot of problems in the world, and the one thing I’d want to change would be this.
I would like everyone in this world to be somehow associated with some kind of sport or play some sport. I would make it compulsory for every person to play or do sports or be associated with it because I feel like sport teaches a lot of values and helps you judge a person as a human being first – there are no racial, cultural, religious, political boundaries. It would definitely make the world a better place and a more peaceful place as well. As a sportsman I got to learn that. It would make major changes if everyone could be part of sports in one way or the other. It would make the world a better place for sure.
I would ensure] that people with power would be more responsible and ethical and judicious in the exercising of it.
If there’s one thing that I could change in the world, it would be having no borders, because I think we all are one on some level and there should be no discrimination for that.
One thing I would like to change would be hypocrisy. If we can see the true faces of the people around us, a lot of mess in our lives can be cleared up.
I would change the way people think of each other and make them stop telling lies. People are not loyal to each other (and they should be).
I'd like to eliminate the need or rather hunger for power; all kinds of it. If you think about it, the battle for power is the root cause for the world's greatest evils. Corruption, injustice, inequality even wars... all so that one becomes more powerful than the other. In an ideal world where everyone has equal access to opportunities, there will be no single person or entity that would be able to dominate the others and hence there will be peace.
I would put a chip in everyone that prevents them from thinking “I am right all the time”. This would be applicable to all friends and relatives, governments ... and mothers-in-law.
