To me, change means a lot of different things. Change can be anything from a change in lifestyle to a change in hair color. No matter what it is, something is obviously changing. Depending on the context, change can be good or it can be bad. The change I like to think of would be a good change. Change that motivates you more. Change that opens the eyes of others. Change that makes a true difference in anyone's life.

In my life, everything is about to change. I have been used to living at home for the past 19 years. I have been with my family. I have been in my house. I have ultimately felt safe in this routine. Now, I am moving out to go to college. Sure, it isn't the BIGGEST change I could be facing, but it still is a change. When thinking about this upcoming change, I feel a lot of different emotions. I am nervous yet extremely excited for what the future holds. While this is a change in my life, it can lead to a change in many other lives as well.

This change puts me in a new environment. With some new people that I have never seen before. Better yet, never even heard of before. Being new in someone's life opens so many doors on how you interact with them. I haven't grown up with them, so they have no idea what I am like. I could be their least favorite person or one of the best people they'll ever meet.

YOU can be a change in someone's life. Sure, donating to a charity or helping out somewhere is being a huge change, but even just a simple act of kindness can make all the difference. Try something like buying someone else's coffee. You'll make their day but this could also inspire them to pay it forward to someone else which makes so much of a tiny change in people's lives.

You don't have to have everything in the world to make a change.