Make A Difference (written for my brother)

"You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you" (Frederick Buechner). We are all made of moments, of negative and positive experiences that have molded our perception of life, of humanity, and our own value of self. All that is, has been since long before we were put here, and is only influenced through our interactions with each other. You carry a piece of everyone who has ever touched you. You may clean like your mother, write like that high school teacher that was deeply inspiring, comfort the way a stranger once comforted you in a time of need. We are pieces of others, yet we are greater than the sum of our parts. We have the power to give away fragments of ourselves and remain whole. So do it. Spend an extra minute to ask about someone's day, donate that dollar that you may have saved for your morning coffee, empower those without guidance. We make up the world that we live in, and a world lives inside of all of us. So who's to say that one person can't change the world? Who's to say that person isn't you?