This is the big debate in my head.
You see, I’m working on something - the beginning of this nonprofit that I’m setting up. And the potential ramifications of it are, well, staggering.
Or maybe I just think that ’cause it’s my baby.
Ya’ know when you visit those places that famous people lived and worked, and you try to put yourself in their shoes — the house that Van Gogh painted in, or the streets where the framers of the Constitution walked, or the bar where the scientists that worked on the Manhattan Project drank at? Ya’ know that feeling? That desire to connect with the past, to connect with greatness? The way people pour over every letter that Einstein or Mark Twain wrote looking for clues about what they really believed and how they developed their unique view of the world?
At small points in my life, I’ve had that feeling but on the other side - you know the side like someday people will be pouring over everything saved on my hard drive looking for clues about who I REALLY was. Arrogance? Maybe. I’ve always kind of assumed that everyone has these sort of feelings. This sense that their uniqueness is going to significantly change the world one day. That their mark on society will be felt for generations to come…
Maybe.
And maybe my vision actually IS unique. I guess only time will tell.
Either way, I would like to encourage anyone reading this (and those that aren’t) to pursue and express your unique vision. To determine what it is that drives you and make it real. To create the world as you would like it to be by living the way that you think it should be. This is where real change originates.
Let me know what you’re doing in the comments.
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