“…is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
Long ago when I was young and impressionable, and believed quotes to be the ultimate truisms to guide one’s life by, I came across a long-winded thing — that I cannot now track down — that said about the same thing as the Emerson bit quoted above.
I felt this profoundly true. With a word processor in the 80s, I tracked and kerned the best I could, printed it out on pretty commercially-designed paper, and taped it up in my bedroom. For a long time it hung, where I could just see it from the bed, and I pondered it hard and often.
And then… yeah – after weeping many silly secret tears that I had no such someone in my life to bring forth the brilliancy that I knew was surely within me, I finally took the quote down with a shake of my head at my over-wrought sentimentality.
The purpose of quotes to live by couldn’t be to make us depressed. I decided I’d take this bull by the horns; instead of waiting for this someone to come along and inspire me, I’d be this person myself.
Looking back now, it’s been an amazing experience to see how a little of my dress-up magic has gone a long ways towards improving opportunities and changing lives of others.
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