point blank

"If you do the right thing well, you avoid futility. . .'You have to believe that small gestures matter, that they do add up'" (295)

Step by step, little by little, we will eventually get there. As Dr. Seuss once wrote, "A person is a person no matter how small." Many people do not realize how much power or significance they truly possess. Even a small statement has its own effect in the world. If people realized their ability to make such differences, maybe they would not be so hard on themselves. In some cases, instead of just not acknowledging their potential, some people are crippled by the fear alone that they are capable of change. "Why me? I am just an average joe or jane." People need to fully embrace it and recognize that they are really are the masters of their own destiny. It does not matter whether you are a male or female, young or old, black and white or rainbow. Several of us tend to pass aside the torch of responsibility once they are given it. In contrast, when we lack power, we tend to try and achieve it. As this colloquium class learned from reading Love and Power, it displays the same epic battle between love and power. It is difficult to find the desired happy medium of the two mentioned subjects. In the book, it is mentioned continuously that stumbling and falling happens frequently during the process of finding the much yearned for balance. These trips and whatnots are almost like requirements for such change to occur. Relating back to the original point, it is key to realize that sometimes a fall during the road of success can also help you not delay you as some tend to act as such. A trip or fall or stumble could only delay you or disable you if you let it. They could be the assets or stepping tools for such progress, such development, such change. Realizing one's true potential or even the tiniest thing could do so much, maybe the world would be a better place. It would not just be a place of reluctancy and hestitance. TAKE A STEP UP!! LOOK AT YOURSELF NOT THE GUY NEXT TO YOU! If one desires a change so bad, realize instead of expecting one, be the change. As the quote goes, "be the change you wish to see in the world."