Words

[image error]I went to a high school graduation last Friday night and realized that 20 years ago I too graduated from the same school. I sat and listened to all the speeches and noticed that even though 20 years had passed, it was the same type of message. “We are going to be the generation to change the world” or “Follow your passions” or “Keep reaching for stars!” The same speech of a bright and opportune future as I heard at my own graduation. As I listened my heart broke. These words are great words, but that is all they are. Just Words.

Words are powerful. But some words are also devastatingly harmful. Some words speak life and others dig you an early grave. It’s nice to soak up the cliche phases from the past, but unless you act upon them they are but meaningless Instagram posts. Just a chase after the poetic wind.

Millions of scholars and jocks, cheerleaders and glee club members, social elites and awkward outcasts will be walking across the stage signaling a closure of one chapter. A piece of pretty paper does not define ones worth. Hard work and determination does. Anyone can get a degree these days like a participation ribbon. But to use the degree for its intended purpose brings meaning to those words. Living your life with goals and hopes breathes life into that diploma. Dreaming and planning of the possibilities is what births purpose with that single sheet of paper.

Many words may be written. Many more words may be spoken. But if you don’t act upon what you read or hear, well those words are just as meaningless as praising a deadman at his casket. The deadman doesn’t care what people think about them after they are gone. They care about what people think about them as they are living.

May the words you read and words you hear cause a stirring in your soul to take a step uncommon. Foreign territories don’t have to remain undiscovered. It only takes one person following where the words takes them to drastically change the world.

You could be the one to change this generation.

But you won’t if you’re just reading this blog.

Let the words someone spoke over you in the past resurface and resonate like a phoenix. You may have felt it was too late, but it never is. If you’re breathing, it’s not too late.

Breathe in deep.

Take a step.

That’s all it takes.

Peace