Inklings

I was playing around with a story plot generator. The story ideas that this comes up with? Priceless stuff.

Here’s my favorite plot so far:

#thriving

You are not your grades.

You are not your math skills, your writing skills, or social skills.

You are not what others think of you.

Your value doesn’t come from the letters on your report card or the numbers on your GPA.

Those things? Yeah, they’re cool. But, don’t let yourself get caught up in them. Don’t place your identity in them. Instead, place your value in something that is worth far more. Let your identity be in your kindness, your generosity, and in the way you serve the people around you. Let it be in your dedication, your enthusiasm, your desire to make the world around you a little better than you found it. 

Someone recently asked me what I was trying to prove by working so hard. Me? I’m not trying to prove anything, I’m just trying to change the world. I’m studying, because I know that if I want to change something, then this is the way to get there.  

You want to live in better circumstances then you are in now? Study. You want your children to grow up in a better situation than you had? Study. You want your parents to be proud of the person you’ve become? Study. You want to change the world, making it a better place for everyone who comes after you? Study. You want to be able to look back to your time as a young adult, and be proud of how hard you worked? Study.

Who is it that you want your future self to be?

Are they independent, are they stronger than the fears that hold you back, are they more persistent and hardworking? Define them. You cannot become them if you don't know what it is that they are.

Once you know who you want to be, then start asking yourself what that person would do in the situations you are in. Constantly seek to act like the person you want to grow to be, and you will become them.