changing the world

Is it somewhat lame that I keep chinese fortunes on my mirror to inspire me before I start my day? Each piece of advice lead to some lightbulb moment within me at a Chinese restaurant sometime this semester. I love the little slices of wisdom.

It was perfection, it really was. I was cleaning up my desk the other day and found eight inspiring words linked together underneath my stack of unread psychology books. Change your thoughts and you change the world. It was as if God was whispering how to accomplish all the scattered ideas and unstable plans inside my head.

Lately I have been thinking about changing the world. A lot. I'm in a class that brings social work issues to life and I'm absolutely in love with the world's problems, in a way that makes me want to tackle every one of them. This desire is to help everyone everywhere from every situation. I find myself in the library or at coffee shops looking up different programs in the community and how they got started. Whenever I have free time I go to the library to read books on social work issues. I have seriously fallen in love with wanting to help people.

And then I read a blog post the other day that summed up everything that I had been thinking for the past few weeks. Her words involve a little more resolution behind them because she's 22 and is at a different point in her life, but as someone who isn't in the 20 year old dreamer category yet I can still relate!

Change my thoughts and I can change the world. I have a lot to change, I have a lot to conquer inside this brain of mine. It's these eight words that really keep me going because I know how capable I truly am of changing lives. I'm a human and I am only one person, but I can make a difference.

Inspiration through Chinese meals are the bessssssst.