Good Help

On of the things I have a problem with is the lack of self-worth being promoted.  It seems lip service is paid to the value of the individual.  But to me it is always in the context of worth to “the man” and has a very limited scope.
My question is how can an individual see themselves as important and unique and a wonder of nature when being told from youth they are a merely the result of a process stumbled upon?  Anyway it seems in this day there is a scourge of self-harm due to in part the attempted homogenising of humanity and the bottom line lack of self-worth espoused.  It is no wonder hope is a sought after commodity.
I am a great believer in assessing an idea based on the results produced.  Where improvements in the human experience are produced – not just for some but for all I am interested in pursuing that idea.  I was interested to read a while back where someone said at least in the past “left field ideas” began in hope and ended in despair.  Now days so much begin and ends in despair.
For me ever person is a wonder and full of potential.  Everyone though it seems has things that hold back or things that prevent a successful launch.
It is from here different views produce different results.  One view says someone is nothing more than atoms combined together, and I am what I am and will never be different.  Another view says my difficulties which I acknowledge are too big for me can be overcome and I can be different.
It is that view I hold too.  Not as an unfounded hope but as a lived reality in my life and those I know personally or heard tell.  There was a guy in Townsville I knew.  I will never forget it.  He was one guy I really thought could not change.  But low and behold he did.  Another guy I heard tell of his experience in the porn industry.  He was highly regarded and received the highest industry accolades.  Yet with each success he felt there was something missing.  Eventually he found it and left the porn industry behind – not just because what he had been doing was incompatible with his new lifestyle, but also because he wanted to.  He knew he needed the help he had found was available and willingly made the break from destruction.
That is the sort of thing that means heaps to me.  All humanity has hope – not just as a now thing, but as a forever thing.