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You Can Always Change The World

Despite What Everyone Else Tells You

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You Can Always Change The World
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I am so tired of hearing the sad words that no one feels that they can change the world we are living in. Poverty is stuck as poverty, how we view men and women will never change, war is always going to continue, and mean people are always going to be mean.

It seems as if the people who were supposed to change the world have given up! They have let this cold, dark, and depressed world consume them into nothing--they have let the world win. As the world just gets curler, this is understandable. I mean, who wants to stand up for what they believe in when millions of people are telling them no, or to stop? Who wants to share their voice when they know someone will tell them that they will regret it later, or that they're wrong? Those who were supposed to change the world are becoming hopeless because no one will listen to their words as no one seems to want to give anyone a chance anymore.

But I am here to tell you not to give up. There are people out there listening to you, and supporting you and hoping your voice will be loud enough one day to start an Earthquake of change. If you want to change the world or some aspect of it, you can as long as you never give up.

J.K. Rowling probably wanted to give up a million times when her story was shot down by editor after editor, but could you imagine if she did? My childhood, my late night movies with my dad, and some of my best friends could not have existed without her books. I would not have had anywhere to escape to when I was the one who felt like giving up on the world.

Did you not think Steve Jobs wanted to give up after his company basically left him on the side of the road--the company he had built and loved from his tiny garage? But he kept fighting because he knew what was right as he wanted to meet the needs of the people with his products, not the needs of the money everyone in his company wanted. Life without an iPhone, well those are days I would not like to remember.

There are doctors and researchers working every single day to find the cure to cancer--are you telling me that they don't want to give up? Every time they come across something that might work, it turns out to make matters worse, or just doesn't work at all. But do you think they give up? They know what they are doing may change the world one day, even if they won't be alive to see it.

Millions of people every day are giving up on what they are passionate. Instead of going to college to do what they love, they listen to their friends and family about how awful the job market is and how they need a degree that will ensure them of a career. Money and making others proud is more important, so they give up and they take the easy way out in this one life that God has given them.

We only have one life to live, so why not do something you are passionate about or work on something you believe in? Be the person who walks away from everything in their lives to do what you love. Be the person that proves every single person who doubted you wrong. Be the person that actually makes their idea a reality even though it was shot down a million times. Make life hard, but make it what you love because it is the only one you've got.

If you're unhappy about something, say it. If you don't like the way the world is, change it. Stand up and fight for what you believe in. This world is crumbling because everyone who is supposed to fight has given up.

If you fight we will follow behind you. You aren't the only one dreaming of changing the world, and I know as soon as it starts a domino effect will occur.

Stop yourself if you think you can't change the world. Why can't you? Why not you? I am so sad and tired of seeing these people with mindsets that the world is set and stone and can't change. Let's prove them wrong. Let's prove everyone wrong. The world can change because I see it happening. So if you want to make a contribution or change the world, don't let anything stop you.

If you want to say something, say it. If you want to do something, do it. I'm not saying it's going to be easy, or a rollercoaster of fun, but life is way too short not to do something you believe in. If you want to change the world, then simply do it and don't ever give up.

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