A Theory About Who and What Matters

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You can start fires with your ideas and jump start the human race with the things you say.

But can you though?  Can you, a singular person in this world of seven billion people, really make a difference?

Usually, no.  The majority of the people that are born aren't going to make a significant difference.  In certain lives, yes, you'll make a difference, but in the scheme of the whole world, not really.

I mean, Time magazine only recognizes a 100 influential people a year, so does that mean that every year only a hundred individuals make a difference?  But maybe those 100 people didn't make as much of a difference as we think.

What I'm wondering is who made this list.  Who has the right to decide what constitutes a person who matters versus a person who doesn't?

My opinion is this: different people matter a different amount to everyone.  Someone I've never met, as of right now, doesn't matter at all to me, while my mom & dad and friends matter a lot.  But this person I've never met could end up being my college roommate.

The thing is, you don't really know someone will be important in your life until they are.  People like to say, "Oh, when I met my husband for the first time I new right away that he was the one."  I'm fifteen and I've never been in love before, but to me it just doesn't seem like that's how it works.

But maybe it is, and that's beautiful.  To know the minute you lock eyes with someone that they're going to matter is an amazing thought, but from my experience that's not quite how the process goes. There are people in my life that are super important now, that I never would have thought I would even see on a daily basis.  The relationships I have now are not the relationships I thought I would have had three years ago.

Take for example Beyonce.  I love Beyonce and so does the rest of the world.  But that doesn't make her anymore important than someone who isn't a famous singer.

A lot of people may know Beyonce, but she hasn't mattered as much as say a brain surgeon, who has saved dozens of peoples lives.  People who were husbands, wives, mothers, father, daughters, sons.  The people that were saved by this brain surgeon and their families probably love him a lot more than they love Beyonce.

What I'm trying to say is it's all in perspective.  You may feel like you aren't that important in the big picture of things, but you are.

Just think, when you were born, you're mom was happy.  She smiled at the bus driver her first day back at work.  That smile made the bus drivers day.  He was going to go home tonight, and like every other night, watch tv while he fell asleep on the couch.  But since the women getting on the bus gave him the most genuine smile he'd seen in years, he decided to go visit his daughter.

And all because of you.  Because of you, a father and daughter reconciled.

Every second we're alive, our lives are being changed by people.  We may not realize it, but right now someone could be doing something that in ten years will come back to you and it will completely change your life.

We're all in this never ending cycle of affecting and being affected others, and to me that's amazing.  The fact that somehow we're all connected by the choices we make.

So just remember, that even though it may not always seem like it, you really do matter, and you really are important.

In hindsight, Time's list of influential people should be seven billion people long, because every person alive, has made a difference.

Elise :)

Here's Why Socks are an Underrated Birthday Present

Look at your feet right now.

Chances are, unless you're barefoot, or wearing flip-flops or sandals of some kind, you have socks on your feet.

There's a variety of types you could have on: fuzzy socks, knee socks, tube socks, black socks, white socks, polka dot socks, striped socks — the list could go on forever.

The point is that socks are something that every human being, at one point or another has most likely worn, and if you think about, that's pretty cool.  It brings a million different cultures and mind sets together simply because of the fact that we all put fabric on our feet.

Socks are the only universal truth we have.

Courtesy of: youne

Socks are also a pretty important indicator of who a person is.

For example, I own a lot of colorful socks with patterns, but I also own a lot of plain black and white ones too.  And if you ask someone what they're socks look like, there will probably some sort of relation to their personality.

This may sound really dumb, but I think socks mean a lot more than just being socks.

Just think, every morning you make a decision, no matter how conscious or subconscious, in what socks you decide to wear.

Now I know it's not quite the same as looking at ink blots, but its a pretty good indicator of how you're feeling.

If you're bummed out, you'll pick dark socks, but if you're excited, you'll pick bright ones.  Or you'll just grab them in a half-asleep haze and not really care one way or another.

In conclusion, I guess I just think that socks are a lot more than just socks.  Just like shirts are a lot more than just shirts, and pants are a lot more than just pants, and so on and so forth.

So there you have it.  The tale of two feet, that need two socks to keep them safe and warm.

Elise :)

I'm Boycotting The Cats

There's this app called Neko Atsume that a lot of people I know have.

Pretty much the whole point of it is that you have a bunch of virtual cats that "live" in your phone and you take care of them and collect rare ones and name them, etc.

I could see how this game could pertain to the lives of six-year old cat lovers, but how it relates to my teenage friends I can't figure out.

I have three friends in particular that constantly seem to be engulfed in this game.
Here are their blogs: Kenzie, Ashtyn, and Kira.

The thing is, I just don't get the point of it.

Staring at cats on your phone all day just doesn't seem rewarding or entertaining at all to me, and it seems like a waste of time.

Now I understand that there are a lot of things I, and everyone else in the world, do that are also a waste of time like watching TV, being on the computer etc., and these things are probably not the best use of of one's time either, but the cat game, in my mind, is just the epitome of an unproductive activity.

The cat game.  Credit: the verge.com

It's literally staring at cats.

I just don't get it!  It makes no sense to me, how could somebody want to just stare at cats!

And it's not just that. The people that have this app are completely consumed by it.  All they talk about with each other is the cat game, and every free moment during the day they whip out their phones to check the cat game.

Honestly it seems kind of stressful.  I know I couldn't live with that kind of anticipation always resting on my shoulders just to see if my lump of pixels that I named was doing ok.

I guess my whole point is that the cat game was probably not the best idea, but if you enjoy playing go right ahead, because who am I to tell you how to spend your time?

So thank you, for sticking with me through that whole rant.  It feels to good to get it off my chest that I HATE THE CAT GAME!!!

Anyway, have a good day and thanks for listening.
Elise :)