"You're the future of the world."

Those are words said to almost everyone when they're growing up. You either allow them to have an effect on who you become, or you forget they were ever said. It's up to you to ask yourself this one question:

- Will I be satisfied?

As a whole, we constantly think of ourselves. The question above may seem to be self-centered, but it's all about perspective and how you comprehend the words.

When you ask yourself 'Will I be satisfied?' think about what change you can bring to the world. Will I be President? Will I volunteer? Will I give back to the community who's never stopped giving? Will I protect and serve? Will I try? Will I be a tutor? Will I stand up for those without a voice? Will I stay positive even if it kills me? Questions that we ask, but we never answer.

When we are children we often think of what we can grow up to be. We want to be princesses, lawyers, doctors, knights, ballerinas, and maybe even a ninja turtle. What we fail to do is grow up and become those things. Maybe not literally, but we had a reason behind it. We chose to be a lawyer to help serve justice, a doctor to save lives, a knight to help princesses in distress, a princess to save the animals, and a ninja turtle because why not? As we grow older, though, our dreams change and our young minds get lost.

When I say ask yourself, 'Will I be satisfied?', can you say yes? Can you wake up, look in the mirror, and say;

"I did it. Iconquered my fears, I gave back to the community, I stood up for someone who was afraid, I stopped bad things from occurring, I helped a friend in need."

If you can't say yes, to not just those questions, but any question that the young version of you once wanted to accomplish, then you're going in the wrong direction. Our child minds were honest and sincere. Thinking back I can already tell you that I am not satisfied. I want to leave my mark on the world along with many others, and I plan to do just that with the help of my childhood dreams.

"Shadows of the Living:

Don't let them be dark and filled with regrets, rather let them be filled with the gratitude and hope the world needs to live on."