Hmm, so here I am again trying to come up with something clever to say. Maybe give you hope for desperate times, or discuss our current political system and its relevancy, maybe we should analyze Hollywood’s influence on pop culture in recent years, but somehow, that just seems cliche. Movers and shakers, that’s what I want to talk about. Remember those lectures we all had in high school about how we could make a difference or do anything we set our minds to? Well for most of us that may have been a lie in the broad spectrum of things. Most of us will never cure cancer, solve world hunger, or bring peace to the world. We won’t be “rich” or powerful, nor will we be superstars. Not a great outlook huh? However I have a theory (go figure). I think that our generation has grown up being told they can do anything, making us ideological and forces for change to a point. Then we reach that point where we start to pursue our dreams and something happens to us as it gets hard or we find out we just can’t cut it in the rat race because maybe we just aren’t willing to give up our souls. So we quit. We give up on dreaming big and settle into “our place” in society where we are insulated by the excuses that we tell everyone for how we ended up in “that” situation. Just look at your high school yearbook. Those superlatives that everyone voted on. Did the class clown become a comedian? How about the most likely to be a sports superstar, did he even make the bench of that college team he was “always” going to play for? My guess is no. That may be the problem with our country. Not that we don’t follow our dreams, but rather, when the going gets tough, we bail. Granted that one big dream may be unattainable, but when we stop dreaming all together, stop innovating, what more do we have? This country pulled itself out of the Great Depression in a matter of months, went to the moon in a few years, and has been a ideological and technological powerhouse that stood as an example for almost two centuries! We aren’t losing jobs oversees because its cheaper labor, we are losing jobs because they want it more, THEY have become the innovators, THEY have started dictating ideologues. All I’m asking is that if you have an idea: PURSUE IT! Yeah your going to fail…a lot. But when Thomas Edison was asked about all of his 1000 failed experiments while pursuing the light bulb, he didn’t say that he failed 1000 times, he said he found 1000 ways NOT to make a light bulb. Moral of the story: He eventually found a way, because he kept at it, and you should do the same.
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