I want to leave my mark on our world. I don't want the time that I am here to be a waste, as I'm sure none of us do. I want my words to reach people, I want to make things and change people and most of all I want these things at the ends of my arms to touch the hearts of people. I am not alone and it is this longing we have to help further some purpose that is greater than just ourselves that makes us keep trying to do something. At times, our lives can feel wasted; that day you spent on the couch watching Netflix just went down the drain, that day you slept in past breakfast and lunch or when we constantly miss out on opportunities to better the world around us.

Thankfully, in this world full of fear and hatred, these things at the ends of our arms bring us closer than ever possible to those around us. When we greet people we shake them, lovers hold them, we slap them with others’ when we’re happy and we use them to hold on to those we don’t want to let go. Within the physical constraints of our body, the closest we can get to someone else emotionally (without being a creep and making-out with random strangers and friends) is through these things at the ends of our arms.

Not only can we express our feelings through them, but we have done amazing things with them too. As humans we built pyramids without modern machinery. Stonehenge, while that may have been aliens, was probably built by humans. We drafted and signed a declaration that created a successful country and saved so many people from the tyranny of a King. The “Number One Best-Seller” has been written countless times. We create music with them. They make people believe in magic. Deaf people can talk with these and blind people can read. People can come together, holding these things at the ends of our arms when we are in times of hardship and struggle because, how much different are you really from the person next to you?

Every single day, these things at the ends of our arms are the comfort someone else needs. Because of this, and all of the things we have created, we cannot forget the power that resides in us to change the world we live in. We are the strong and we are the change. Almost everything that we know in this world can be attributed to the work that has been done and the lives that have been changed, courtesy of these things at the ends of our arms.

This world was given to us and if you do nothing with your ability to be a change, then you are being not only a disservice to us and the world around you, but most importantly you’re being a disservice to yourself.