Goals, achievements, triumphs—people worldwide work to
attain them for themselves or the people around them. Even those that seem to
be driven to accomplish nothing have their own list of objectives—everyday they
aim to please their own downgraded ideas of what they ought to be.
You see, what we think is our “place” in the universe is
often inaccurate—underestimated.
Why, for instance, did Benjamin Franklin become such a
statesman, politician, and orator that he radically transformed the thoughts
and ideas of an entire nation? Why did Michelangelo contribute such a grandeur
of extraordinary artwork to the renaissance? Why did Albert Einstein
revolutionize the science of physics?
Part of what they did was a result of external
circumstances—Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling because Pope
Julius II requested it. All of what they did, however, resulted from who they
were. Albert Einstein may have had a genetic predisposition towards being
brilliant, but he put in the effort to be who he was—he worked to fulfill who
he was.
The common misconception is that because I’m ‘me’ I get to
be what ‘me’ wants to be. But while you may be content to live one way, there
are so many that have aspired to live greater, but can’t because of various
circumstances.
Society doesn’t just
need people like Einstein; it calls for it. Despite any varying religious,
political, or cultural opinions, we, as human beings, have been created to
reach beyond many of the low expectations we set up for ourselves.
To Be Somebody is to be human. Anything less just falls
short of what we are meant to be. This is the core of what Being Somebody is
about; and it is from this that everything that Be Somebody is about, expands
upon.
