I was raised, and still am a firm believer that actions speak more loudly than words. Sometimes though words can drown out the actions and we begin to forget the type of impact that our actions either as a group or as an individual can have on our friendships, our community, and our world.

I get that sometimes it is hard to see our impact, and when we don't immediately see it we come become disillusioned about the purpose of our actions in the first place. I mean that is how my generation is. We like instant gratification, we want to see instant change, and when it doesn't we move on to something that can provide that result. I know because I am guilty of doing it. I think to some degree we are all guilty of moving on to quickly or not investing enough time because we were not impacted right off the bat. I think that needs to change.

It is hard I admit to be able to commit oneself to a singular cause or to multiple causes. I mean to be fair there are so many things in our community, state, region, and nation that we can become a part of. It is fantastic. But, I believe we are better for it when we devote our time to focusing on one singular thing. Changes I admit will not come quick, sometimes they can be which is kind of rare, but we can't grow weary in our pursuit of creating change. When others notice that we are dogged in pursuit of something or some cause our actions begin to create the change we sought to make. Just don't give up.

I, along with my some of my peers and the support of faculty, formed an organization on my campus called the Centenary Political Union. The goal is to bring awareness to students about advocacy groups that are tackling local, state, and national issues. We know that we all live in our own personal bubbles that is easy to forget what is going on around outside. We want to change that. So, each month we bring the groups to campus to provide and inspire our peers to go out into our world in order to make it better than how we entered it.

A daunting challenge, but a challenge nonetheless that we have and will continue to meet head on. This month is human trafficking awareness month. Did you know that? If you would of asked me a week ago I would of said no. But you see knowing is only half the battle. We brought in an amazing speaker who spoke to fellow students about how human sex and labor trafficking is a problem here in our city of Shreveport, and in our state of Louisiana. It was definitely eye opening to have an issue like that hit so close to home. Literally and figuratively. The second half of the battle is the actual combat in regards to tackling the issue we have brought to campus.

We are fully aware that we will not beat this issue in the span of a single day, month, or year. We are aware though that giving this knowledge to our peers, and then providing them the avenues to take the knowledge and act upon it can create the change that we seek. That our community desperately needs. It will not be an easy process. Change is never easy even if the change is for good. It requires always some form of sacrifice.

Each month we will seek to provide the avenues and knowledge for our peers to help change the world around us. We owe it to the world to be agents of change, to help those who cannot help themselves. To be those agents, and to utilize those tools we must remember that when we act people will always hear. They may forget our words, but they will never forget our humanity founded in our actions.