I think we have so much potential.

As humans we have this amazing power to do so many wonderful things. We can create and build. We have so much energy and influence in the world which surrounds us. Our mind is even greater than all of that, with the opportunity and possibility of thinking up almost anything and more importantly the means with which to do it. We have all these resources to cultivate our minds and shape ourselves into something incredible. There are so many people on the planet that we could find someone that excels at almost every single topic that you can think of off the top of your head. We can communicate with people across the world at the touch of a button all from the comfort of our own homes. There is so much brilliance and beauty and good amongst all the hate and war that our planet fosters.

And yet we do nothing.

Or not enough of us do something. We can sit around and talk about issues that the planet is having, we can have intelligent discussions, we can complain about what bothers us, and we can sit around pointing fingers at who's to blame for each specific issue. The problem is that talk is all we do and most of the time we don't talk publicly or to someone that could possibly do something about it. No, we sit at home or in various comfort zones and talk about these things. These massive problems in society or with the world around us never taking into account the possibility that we as people of this wondrous plane might have the power to somehow influence or change the things that we speak of.

I'm not even going to include the people that are too busy worrying about their cars and living up to a particular social standard to even so much as acknowledge that there are problems beyond their short ivory towers. No, I'm talking about the smart people in the world. The people who have the mental capacity to not only inform themselves about different issues, but actually understand them and feel something towards them. Feel something towards problems that don't even directly affect us because we're human and we have an inherent responsibility to each other and to our future generations to leave this planet in the best possible condition.

I'm not saying you have to go out and dedicate your life to curing cancer. Doing something and making a difference is so easy. So simple. It can be anything from smiling all day, leaving a random note for the next person who picks up a book, organizing an awareness movement for united nations day, volunteering your time at a homeless shelter, writing a letter to a senator, random acts of kindness, and the list goes on and on and on. It's the little things that count because life is comprised of little things. Relationships, memories, love, all the little things that string together our lives. Our lives that seem so small, but have such an impact on the future. So, why not? Why not do something?

You're smart, spectacular, loving, and full of potential. Do something with it! Everyone can do something however small it might seem. Get off the sidelines because eventually sitting on the fence is going to hurt your behind. Do something.

Peace, Love & Pancakes
-Liberty