we are all role models.
”Some athletes & celebrities say ‘I’m not a role model.’ I say ‘Yes you are, you’re just not a very good one.’” - Tim Tebow
If you spend time with children whether you’re a teacher, babysitter, parent, i can promise you that those children are watching you, trying to decide how to LIVE THEIR LIFE based on how YOU LIVE YOURS. We can be an EXAMPLE for children and people of WHAT TO DO and HOW TO ACT, or we can be an example of WHAT NOT TO DO and HOW NOT TO ACT. The choice is simple and the choice is all yours.
Some of you might be thinking, “there’s no way i’m a role model to anyone” and maybe we aren’t, but i can gaurentee, SOMEONE is watching you and what you do. Strangers watch us. I love to people watch, which means that others enjoy people watching as well, which means people are watching me and they are watching you. You have to the power to show them what KIND of PERSON you are by the way that you act, you have the CHOICE to show them how to BE KIND and how to BE HAPPY and how to be FORIGVING. Or you have the choice to show them that you choose the EASY way out in life. That you choose to be selfish rather than selfless.
Chances are that we all have someone WATCHING us and our BEHAVIOR, seeing what KIND of PERSON we are, deciding what they are going to do by inspecting our ACTIONS. We ALL have the responsibility of being a ROLE MODEL… it’s up to you what KIND you want to BE.
P.S. We will never achieve perfection. So try to do the right thing, but give yourself a break when you make a mistake, because we are human and we will all make mistakes for the rest of our lives. We all mess up, we all fall short and we all need forgiveness.
An unhappy person usually needs a change of HEART rather than a change of CIRCUMSTANCE.
imagination.
Children are easy to please, simple, HOPEFUL, optimistic, FORGIVING, BRAVE and creative and adults are… often the oppposite of all those things I mentioned. What happens to us along the way? Where do we lose our positivity? Our simplicity? When do we stop seeing the BEST IN OTHERS and instead start LOOKING for the worst? When do we stop FORGIVING and start HOLDING GRUDGES? When do we stop being brave and start LIVING IN FEAR? More importantly… Why?
Children love to day dream, to think up impossible scenarios and pretend like its their life! They love to be the princess or the superhero. They love to imagine the most exciting and fascinating things they can think up to imagine. Which makes them into big dreamers! Ask a child what they want to become and they will often say “Firefighter” or “Rockstar” or “Football player” they have big dreams and somewhere along the way, adults make them believe they can’t accomplish those dreams. What’s wrong with having a big imagination and being a FEARLESS DREAMER?! I admire children for their dreams! Adults on the other hand, we still use our imagination but we use it in the worst way. We use it not to wonder what COULD BE, we use it to wonder about the things that probably WILL NEVER BE. What a negative way of thinking and what a sad life to live. We don’t say things like “What if everything works out exactly the way i imagined and i live the life i always wanted?!” We say things like “What if everything goes wrong?” and “What if no one likes me, what if they judge me and laugh at me?” How foolish of us!
We could ALL learn MANY lessons from children! Get back to the basics, be a HOPEFUL DREAMER, forgive others over and over, be EASY TO PLEASE, be SIMPLE, be COURAGEOUS. Most importantly, don’t look at EVERYTHING that COULD go WRONG, look at EVERYTHING that COULD GO RIGHT! :)
Matthew 18:3-4
“And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.”
the latest trend: SPEAK UP. →
Proverbs 31:8-9 ”SPEAK UP for the people who have no voice, for the rights of all the down and outers. Speak out for justice! Stand up for the poor and destitute!”
Watching harmful or hurtful things be done to others whether physically or emotionally and not doing anything about it is just as…
EMBRACE ADVERSITY. Those are the times when you LEARN. Those are the times where you experience new things and GROW in areas you didn’t know you needed GROWTH in. If your life seems to always be calm, smooth, easy… you’re not growing. CHOOSE to GROW. EMBRACE the HARD times and the CONFUSING times…. LEARN from them!
