Wednesday, April 28, 2010

I was watching the movie up in the air recently, awesome movie, one of the best moviesi ever watched, highly recommended , but anyway, before i digress. A theme that was commonly expressed in the movie is the fact that many of us just sit back and watch life go by, surviving, and not living, we live our lives by reacting to events. We are shaped more by single events and moments, than by constantly improving ourselvesby our everyday activities. Now this got me thinking.

What happens then? When a revolution happens, when an idea is watered and nurtured by effort and it grows to shape the lives of many, if not all of us in the world. What happens to these people? These "special " ones? Were they born diffferent? And if not, what happened until then?

What makes these people tick? Is their purpose to inspire other people? Is it to inspire change as a whole? Are those two entirely different people?

If your work is to inspire other people, then you hold unimaginable amounts of power, because if what you say inspires them, then they will most likely do it.

If your purpose is to inspire change as a whole, then the only limitation you haveis that which you set for yourself.

Then there's the third kind of person.

The perfect creature. Defined by stereotypes, and averages, the statistic. The quintessential human. What does he do? Well, he lives, he takes everyday at a time. Dreams? Those are too heavy a burden on the conscience, besides, he heard about the best way to make God laugh, tell him about his plans. He reacts. He's the ant, follows the rules without question, but..

whats wrong with that?

every revolutionary needs his people, a king his: subjects, a leader his followers, an author, his readers. Does it make them less of people? Does it make them less important?

Many of the heroes we have, or had, say that they simply couldn't sit back and watch things happen, and not do anything about it. But what if they did? Would the world really be a worse place if everyone was comfortable with the current state of things, or simply unwillling to do anything about it?

The idea of this message , is to simply concede to the fact that we can't all be revolutionaries, and there's room for everyone in this world, and the thing is, this world will grow bigger, if our dreams do. If a message gets to only one person in the entire world, it has fulfilled its purpose, to inspire. He/she might be the only one who it really needed to reach.