365 Days Of Love. Day 110

Last summer, my mantra was, "follow the story." Under such a banner, I stayed calm while stranded at a Haitian airport, I picked up a hitch hiker outside of Chicago, I came wildly close to falling in love with a young man who was about to embark on an international adventure. It was a great and exciting summer and as I chanted this mantra into the school year, I endured more adventures, sometimes foolishly, but adventures nonetheless.

Today, though, I considered an evolution to this mantra. Instead of following the story, I want to create it. Often times when people compliment me, I think, "Yikes, they don't really know who I am, I'm not that great, I haven't done anything super awesome." Even more often, I point the complimenter to someone else who I consider far more awesome than myself. In this cycle of compliments and denying said compliments, I've realized a truth about humanity. 

We are full of potential. 

All of us.

I am not any more special than anyone else. I have been incredibly lucky to have such influential people in my life to look up, I am humbled by the experiences afforded me that have molded me into the 24-year old that I am today, but I am not special. Rather, these things have offered me a sort of potential energy, the energy that begs I do something. And, because I'm not special, this energy is not special either, it lives within us all.

 Our stories past create the potential we have in this moment. The love offered us, the love stripped from us, the love wanted by us. These are the things that provide the potential 

in

this

moment

 And the potential we have 

in 

this 

moment is the primer for the story that we can 

create.