People will make New Years resolutions tonight. People will strive to be thinner, to be more successful, to be better parents, better boyfriends, better members of society...and like last year, most of us will feel we fall short. Another year will pass by 365 days from now and we will feel as though the world has gone on spinning with little input from us. We make these resolutions, these promises to ourselves in our attempt, though we think its futile, to have some impact on the world. And that concept eventually frightens us so we fall short of it. We will spend most of this new year, like the last one, feeling as though we have failed in that attempt, at any attempt...to change the world. But what Ive learned, the great revelation from this random character, Drew Dudley, is that there is no world...Theres only six billion understandings of it, and if you change one persons understanding of it, one persons understanding of what theyre capable of, one persons understanding of how much people care about them, one persons understanding of how powerful an agent for change they can be in this world, youve changed the whole thing. Another thing he mentions is a quote from a woman named Marianne Williamson, in which she states Our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our greatest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, and not our darkness, that frightens us. To quote The Stranger from The Big Lebowski...I dont know about you...but I take comfort in that. So go about your business...just live your everyday lives...and just by being you...just by being your average every day remarkable selves...you will impact the world. And I look forward to seeing how in 2015. Happy new year, my fellow world-changers.
Posted on: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 16:26:09 +0000
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