Well, Here Goes Nothing

I'm sitting here in the Student Union, looking around at all the faces I see surrounding me. Some old, some young, all busy. Everybody's doing their own thing, myself included. Almost everybody is either on a cell phone, iPod or laptop computer. I'm not going to go on some rant about how much we all have while there are children starving throughout the world. But I could. I know how blessed I am to have the life I lead. The thing is, do I know enough to do something about it? Am I willing to step out of my comfort zone in order to affect some change in the world?

We all grow up saying, "I want to save the world." But somewhere along the line, we lose that idealism. We become so focused on our own lives, our own materials, our own success that we all too often lose that sense of responsibility. Every once and again, it comes back to us in the form of a song lyric, or an emotional television commercial, or even a unique StumbleUpon moment. We are shaken back into the reality of the world, where our lives suddenly seem so insignificant that we feel the weight of that responsibility placed heavily upon our shoulders. And what do we do? We think, "I'm just one person. What can I do?" And to be honest, we're right. We are only individuals. But if you are reading this, we're now more than individuals. We are a movement. The hope and wonder that we once felt as children are still deep within us. The question remains, are we going to let them shine through us or remain silent in a world that is crying out for help?

"Never doubt that a small group of concerned citizens can change the world.

Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."

-Margaret Mead