a moment of passion
I have never stopped believing that I can do anything, this one belief, this one fact, is something I take to the grave. There are so many things I believe that I can do, and so many self-fulfilling prophecies that I wish to see realized.
There are two scenarios that I see comming from my life. The first is to go to grad school, get a phd in social pyschology and add a pretty large share of substantial research that could maybe help people in their own lives. maybe, hopefully. This scenario involves getting married, raising a child to believe in themself as I do, and to they change the world positively.
This scenario is hypocritical. It assumes that I am fed up with the way society works, and while i will somewhat be helping it out, it doesn't nearly cover the things that I can believe I can do. There are so many issues I KNOW that are fixable, so many foms of oppression that can have obvious solutions, that I just can't forget them. I have ideas in my head that I consider magnificent, I just never know how to apply them, where to say them, when to bring them out. I believe I can be so much bigger than a person who feels frustrated, who is tired of hearing our officials ignore the problems at hand, the long term issues that have short term adversaries who are making the big bucks.
(In reality, most solutions for society are derivatives of putting more regulations on businessess, and not allowing so many things to be driven by the "freedom" of making as much money as you could possibly need to wipe your ass with gold leaf.)
I think I can be a leader for social change. But I am tired of saying that I think I can do that. I have been making contributions to society as much as I can, volunteering my time, and being a passive leader by example. But this is not enough. That should be the standard people live by, volunteering is in my eyes not an excessively noble idea.
I sit around and dream of ways of getting people to listen to me, thinking of how to attack arguments, and educating myself on the world around me. At this point in life, much of my actions are in preperation for my hopeful strike at the heart of these problems. I am frustrated with myself for not being able to do anything besides admit to these desires, but this frustration does not cloud the belief that I can do it. The only thing I need to do is to somehow become a more active leader, and that I cannot do alone. I would probably end up with scenario one if there was no one who believed much of what I do. But the fact is that you are reading this and are thinking of things that make you frustrated, and I am calling us both out to stop just thinking about them. You don't have to agree with my beliefs, that is regardless.
Sometimes you just have to make life mean something, and this is how I feel: if you can believe you can do anything, you need to find out what you want changed, what you want to have a positive impact on it, and work towards it. And, if you believe you can do anything, then what's going to really stop you?
There are two scenarios that I see comming from my life. The first is to go to grad school, get a phd in social pyschology and add a pretty large share of substantial research that could maybe help people in their own lives. maybe, hopefully. This scenario involves getting married, raising a child to believe in themself as I do, and to they change the world positively.
This scenario is hypocritical. It assumes that I am fed up with the way society works, and while i will somewhat be helping it out, it doesn't nearly cover the things that I can believe I can do. There are so many issues I KNOW that are fixable, so many foms of oppression that can have obvious solutions, that I just can't forget them. I have ideas in my head that I consider magnificent, I just never know how to apply them, where to say them, when to bring them out. I believe I can be so much bigger than a person who feels frustrated, who is tired of hearing our officials ignore the problems at hand, the long term issues that have short term adversaries who are making the big bucks.
(In reality, most solutions for society are derivatives of putting more regulations on businessess, and not allowing so many things to be driven by the "freedom" of making as much money as you could possibly need to wipe your ass with gold leaf.)
I think I can be a leader for social change. But I am tired of saying that I think I can do that. I have been making contributions to society as much as I can, volunteering my time, and being a passive leader by example. But this is not enough. That should be the standard people live by, volunteering is in my eyes not an excessively noble idea.
I sit around and dream of ways of getting people to listen to me, thinking of how to attack arguments, and educating myself on the world around me. At this point in life, much of my actions are in preperation for my hopeful strike at the heart of these problems. I am frustrated with myself for not being able to do anything besides admit to these desires, but this frustration does not cloud the belief that I can do it. The only thing I need to do is to somehow become a more active leader, and that I cannot do alone. I would probably end up with scenario one if there was no one who believed much of what I do. But the fact is that you are reading this and are thinking of things that make you frustrated, and I am calling us both out to stop just thinking about them. You don't have to agree with my beliefs, that is regardless.
Sometimes you just have to make life mean something, and this is how I feel: if you can believe you can do anything, you need to find out what you want changed, what you want to have a positive impact on it, and work towards it. And, if you believe you can do anything, then what's going to really stop you?