Somedays

We all dream about Somedays.
Someday we will go to college. Someday we will get married and have a family. Someday we will become famous. Someday we will change a life. Someday we will make a difference. Someday.

Stop.

Big red octagon standing in front of you, daring you to move.

These dreams, these Somedays; they can be now. Obviously now may not be the time to get married and have a family. But today can be the day that you make a difference. The day that you change a life. The day that you change the world.
We are constantly looking for opportunities to raise us to a higher level and boost us to greater fame; looking for that good deed that will help us change the world. We look for something big. Writing on the wall, a booming voice in the sky telling us how we can save the planet.

Stop.

Another red octagon.

Look around you. Look at all the people you know. Look at all the people you come in contact with every day. These people make up your world. You help make up their world. These worlds. These are the worlds that you are to change. Not the whole green planet. Not the universe. This world that consists of a few hundred people.
Every time you dream about those Somedays, you are forgetting about your potential right where you are.
You are choosing to bypass your moment of truth looking for something....something...you don't even know what, but you think it will be recognizable when it comes along. But it is. And you are missing it.

Look around you again. Look at all the people you know. How many times do you ask yourself what you can add to their life instead of what they can give into yours? Each of these people has a journey and you, yes you have the chance to speak into their life.

And you say it's not big enough.

How many times did something someone say make your day. It's happened to all of us.
So be that person. That one friend who encourages, who tells people why they appreciate them.
And you will change your world. You will change their worlds. And they will be inspired to change others' worlds.
And then. Then you have changed the world.