In this day in age everyone’s voice serves an ultimate purpose, to make a difference. It could be to make a difference in one persons life, or to make a difference in a group of individuals lives. Either way, everyone’s voice is important, it needed to grow and cultivate our ever changing culture, but what happens after someone takes your voice? Is everyone really destined to make a difference?
In my opinion, everyone’s voice is destined to make a difference. Everyone is important enough to someone to create a noise within their should that will guide them to greatness. It could the friend that knows you and your needs best, your parents guiding you to your future, or your role model (fictional or realistic) showing you what your true ambitions really are. These are the people that want your voice to be heard, they want it to be singing in their ears that they can make a difference.They can help someone somewhere see that they are not useless, dull, or anything negative that pops in their mind, These role models become heroes to the ones that are trying to gain, and find that voice they felt like they never had.
Keep in mind that whenever there is a hero, there is always a dark side, a villain. Sometimes that villain can take your world and smash it to pieces. Your voice that used to represent a bold, beautiful message can turn into soft murmurs in the distance. The villain in every story is out for a purpose, and sometimes its to take every bit of confidence and truth in your life. That leaves you waiting there wanting a hero, your own personal superhero to come and save the day. You want someone to help make sense of your feelings that is rushing around in your head.
How do I know? For twenty- two years I’ve let two people take my voice after I was sexually assaulted over ten years ago. those two men are the arch enemies in my life. They took everything from me. The person I was before is gone, and I let the old me die along with my voice. I chose to be silent, to be scared of everything. I let myself be a victim and think that every bad thing that happened to me was because I was damaged. I even let people make me feel like I was nothing more than a damaged, worthless soul. I let my villains win and take victory over my life. That’s when I realized recently I am more than a victim. I am a survivor,I am a hero, like every victim of sexual assault is. You know why? We made it through that traumatic experience. We made it through to make a difference in someone else’s life. We all made, and we will be the voices of change in this world. We are all heroes because we survived. We defeated them. We have our voice.
No matter what in life brings you down, remember this, that your purpose is to be a hero in someones life that is battling the same battle as you are. It could be minor, like trying to be the best at something, or it could be major like fighting past demons.Once you fight those demons and see the beauty that your own words can bring to this world you become a hero and overcome the villain. When you find yourself cowering down to anyone, be a hero, be strong. Your voice will be found, and the beauty will follow right after it.
