Having developed a short-lived interest in film production, I took a class in high school called \u201cElectronic Media.\u201d We had an assignment where we watched a video interview with the then graduating class of 1991 in order to witness the advancement of film editing techniques over the past ten years. When asked the unavoidably generic question ,\u201cWhere do you see yourself in five years?\u201d most replied with the equally generic answer of having the job of their dreams, getting married, having kids, blah, blah, blah. But there was one student who said she hoped to find an alternative fuel source to crude oil and that she also hoped to be part of this solution.<\/p>\n

Emily Dickinson said \u201cForever is composed of nows.\u201d It\u2019s more than likely that fresh-faced teenager who wanted to be part of a solution for a better world became an adult preoccupied with raising children and paying a mortgage, and let those youthful ambitions fall by the way side. Not that there\u2019s anything wrong with a change of priorities, but what happens between youth and adulthood that makes people stop caring?<\/strong> I guess one could argue that taking care of a family and securing a future for said family are more important than ending world hunger. To me, that seems a little selfish.<\/p>\n

Take Chris Mburu , the Harvard law graduate from Kenya featured in the HBO documentary, \u201cA Small Act.\u201d<\/a> After receiving his law degree with the help of a Swedish benefactor, Mburu could have easily become a successful lawyer and live a cushy, problem-free lifestyle. Instead, he chose to focus his career on human rights activism and pay forward the generosity he received to create a foundation for Kenyan to receive scholarships to prep schools in their homeland. Mburu was an activist while living in Kenya and after receiving his education, he continued to be an activist by working with Amnesty International, Global Rights and the United Nations to train human rights activists in different parts of the world to become more effective in human-rights advocacy.<\/p>\n

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