“The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do” Apple
Thinking about life can be kind of weird sometimes. Like how all of history is really just one narrative. We are all a part of it and yet our own main character at the same time.
Each generation improves on what the last generation did; their insights, innovations, ideas. All of it.
Both our parents should be passing on what they’ve learned so that we can better run the life ahead of us, and then we have kids, and do the same thing.
Being in the 21st century with many generations leading up to this very moment puts me, and everyone else, in an advantageous position that most people in the world have never known let alone been able to enjoy.
We have the ability and opportunity to make a difference. We have the tools and the education and the connectedness that change requires. We have stories and people who have come before us to inspire us.
This is especially true for everyone in the United States, where it is illegal not to go to school. I’ve told that to people around the world and they are just amazed.
The world of the 21st century does not look well upon the uneducated, and yet so many people take their education for granted. I know I did in high school.
College is a tad bit different. It’s kind of hard to take that for granted when you’re paying tens of thousands of dollars!
But this generation has an opportunity to change the world like no other. Think of all the innovations just in the past 20 years, and see how they have dramatically changed our culture and lifestyles.
Something like that will probably happen in our lifetime and is already happening all over the world.
You are capable of so much!!! Like so much. You might hear that all the time or maybe no one has ever told you that before, but it’s true.
The United States is the most prosperous country in the world. Remember that. I know there are real problems and real limitations that hold us back. I’m not trying to diminish those.
But we all have such opportunity because of when and where we’ve been born, and it would be tragic not to realize that and do something about it. Some people are more capable than others because of our pasts and where we’ve been or what we’ve done. But we all have intrinsic worth and just that fact alone should inspire you to do something about injustice in the world.
You are capable of making a difference!
The condition of your heart is of infinite importance though. What you do is important, but what you do flows out of who you are. Your identity is an amalgam of motives, desires, needs, ambitions. Those all shape how you interact with the world.
I believe that people aren’t great because they are remembered, they are remembered because they are great. And it’s your motives that make you great.
Why are you doing what you are doing? That might be the most important question you ask yourself as you go about life. You’ll learn a lot about yourself if you do.
But my desire to make a difference does not come from some sort of need to find worth or be remembered. My desire to make a difference comes from my identity in Christ and the fact that God already loves me and died for me to show me just how much I’m worth to him.
Everything.
That’s how much I’m worth to Him. And so are you and everyone else.
And that is why I can’t help but love people! The hungry orphan on the street is just as important as the president or anyone else famous for that matter.
Be warned: if you truly believe that then your life will never be the same. Your life will be full of risk, because there is always risk in love. But it will also be full of meaning and purpose.
All I’m doing is following Jesus! That’s really it. It has nothing to do with me but everything to do with him.
So do it! Trust Him!
Trust in who He is and what He’s done and you’ll never have to doubt again who you are:)
