Change Yourself to Change the World

I used to think I needed to change the world. I mean hey, if I could change the world people would finally recognize me! I'd finally feel accomplished! I'd finally have found what it is I've been looking for all this while. I'd finally change MYSELF!

And this whole time I've been trying to "change the world", I've been miserable.

Because the whole world is so big.

So full.

Of everyone.

So full of everyone trying to change the world.

I realized though that the only thing I was really after this entire time was changing myself. It was myself that needed the changing. I needed to change. I needed to accept myself, my quirks, my pitfalls, my weaknesses, my strengths, and to finally accept where I'm at right now. Accept what I actually enjoy doing, not getting caught up in the latest "new" thing.

There's "new" things every single second. Every single second we're slammed with the newest fads, the newest information we think will help us, the newest products, the newest posts, the newest problems, the newest solution to those problems.

And at the end of the day, all of these things that slam us in the face momentarily stun us. We're being hit so hard, metaphorically speaking, we can't stand up for one minute to get our bearings straight. We look like a boxer who's been punched so hard he's seeing stars, and just as he starts to regain his balance and momentum, he's hit again and thrown back into a state of momentary paralysis.

In this moment of information and technology overload where we feel like we're in the ring, we can make the choice to say "I'm not even going to bother fighting this fight." Because in this fight, the odds aren't in our favor .

But when we make the decision to step out of the ring, we realize there's more to life than getting punched in the face repeatedly. We finally have a moment to regain our balance, get out of the gym we've been unfairly put in, and have a second to look at ourselves. To regain a relationship with ourselves we lost long ago to screens and information.

And when we do this, we change ourselves. And the world is changed by our having changed.