Every Life Matters

Have you ever just felt purposeless? Waste of air, waste of space, a waste of time?

Every day, i go through the same routine as 49.8 million kids across The United States. I wake up, go to school, and try to stay awake through seven hours of lectures, only to return home with books stacked in my arms and chores to be done. We go through this for 12 years, until finally we graduate, and our whole lives are ahead of us. However, even then most of go off to college or a university, only to get a degree and end up in a career, and yes, even a cubical.

But what i've realized, is that i don't want to do this. There is so much more to life than just the uniform things. Whats living if it consists of a daily routine of the same comforts? Where is the excitement? Wheres the joy and the thrill? What sets my life aside of the average Joe to encourage me to live a life filled with enthusiasm at every waking moment? Wheres the contentment of my day as the sun begins to set?
Where do i find my purpose as to set my life apart and be anything but normal?
I graduate next year, and then i will have to decide what i am going to do and where i am going to go. But recently i've discovered that though that might be the path for some, it is not the path for me. I need to find fulfillment in my life outside designer shoes, big houses and shiny cars.
There so much more to life than the things of this world which i am often guilty of clinging onto. I don't want to be "comfortable" anymore. I want to experience life with those around me, the good and the bad.
I want to make a difference, make an impact. I want my life to be meaningful. I don't want to be a superhero. I don't expect to save a whole town from a natural disaster, or to cure cancer, or even feed all of the hungry mouths. But maybe, i’ll start with just one life. One little girl who's lost hope, one boy whose heart is grieving for the loss of a loved one, one woman who has lost all that she has to her name. Every life matters, and to impact one life,would be greater than any designer jeans i could buy.

What a blessing it would be to turn crying into laughter, a saddened heart into one filled with joy, and turning a lost spirit into one of hope.

Just one life.

So maybe next year i won't go to college right away, maybe ill travel. Go to a place of need where my hands can be used. Where my joy is needed. Where hope can be given. Or maybe i will go to a university and study just as i had always planned to. All i know, is that wherever i go, i want to be able to use my gifts and talents to uplift those up around me, even just to better one life. Because every life matters.

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