Today, I want to talk about the importance of sharing your story with the people around you. Have you ever thought to yourself “Man, I’m not sure that anyone around me sees who I am outside of my Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, etc.” I know I have, I want to tell a story today that I believe will touch your lives and change your perspective.
About a month ago I was running through my small home town and I ran into a friend that I went to school with when I was in High School. This person was super excited and about ran me over when she saw me, I was enthralled. I said, “How are you?” she replied “It’s so great to see you” and we began to have a conversation as if time had never passed. We started talking about really dorky and comical memories that we had just a few years ago.
During this conversation, we got to a point in it that since that conversation has changed my entire way of viewing “myself, my brand, my logo, my online presence, and my person as a whole.” She said “Thank you for staying true to who you are, I remember when you were in high school and in some ways, you’ve changed, but in many other ways, you haven’t changed.
At that moment I almost began to cry, I realized that we live in a world where people are so fake, and self-focused, rather than building a future for the people to come, not just for ourselves. We live in a world where social media is the epitome of our lives, but we don’t spend time having a conversation with the people in front of us. We would rather spend time beating ourselves up because we don’t have “these many followers, this many likes” etc. or put hateful content out (tweets, posts, comments) to people that we don’t TRULY know.
This is both a problem and an opportunity for us to change the way that we view people, ourselves, and life as a whole. The only way that we can change this is by changing our perspective, and the lens that we view through. When is the last time that you said something positive to the people around you? Are your bringing people up, or are you bringing them down?
It’s so vital that in a world that is anti positive, we must be the change. As the conversation with my friend closed, I realized that friendship is more important than influence, that happiness is greater than a number of followers, and that positivity is what will change the world.
