The great Oscar Wilde said 'We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars'.

In that short statement he answered this challenge far better than I ever could. But I will say this; we all share the same base instincts, and we all know of mans weaknesses, and of his soaring divinity at times of need.

We all like to think of ourselves as decent people, generous, sharing and caring, but a glance at any news bulletin will reveal a world at odds with itself.

War, famine and inequality about the earth are mirrored in how life goes on around and about the places we live, and though we all have ideas on how this world could be a better place for all, still each day heralds new destruction, new cases of hate crime, depravity and evil.

Maybe we can change all this, and maybe we can't, but we can at the very least try.

I'm not talking about huge sweeping changes in how we view our fellow man, but rather how we see the world, how we think and how we judge others, sometimes after just a glance. I'm not in the habit of preaching to others how they should live their lives as my own failings are self evident.

But I am trying to change myself.

Not in a huge way - that would never work as I am too weak for that, but in baby steps. Little things.

I started by learning to forgive.

Little things. Forgive.

Give hatred the boot it has deserved for thousands of years and start to see a better you, only a tiny thing at a time.

That's a moral choice in my book.