Inspiration

"Your voice was the soundtrack of my summer.

Do you know you're unlike any other?

You'll always be my thunder, and I said

Your eyes are the brightest of all the colors.

I don't wanna ever love another.

You'll always be my thunder.

So, bring on the rain

And bring on the thunder, and I said

Your voice was the soundtrack of my summer.

Do you know you're unlike any other?

 You'll always be my thunder."

--Boys Like Girls "Thunder"

Dear Diary,

I haven't talked to you much lately. I haven't written to you, and I'm sorry, diary. Today, I'm going to tell you something really important, though. It may not be as important to some people, but it's touched my life. It's really something so simple. Just a few words put together by people, but in a way it's so much more than that. It'll always be so much more than that to me.

They tell me,

You are inspiring. You inspire me.

It's funny how a few words can hold so much meaning. How a few words can make you feel like you finally accomplished what you've been trying to from the beginning, but they do. They mean everything to me. 

When I started writing to you, diary, I thought that maybe I could help. I thought that maybe I could make a difference, even if it was just in one person's life. I needed to make my mark on this world, but I think I've finally realized that I don't have to make my mark on the whole world. The world is a big place, and maybe I just need to make my mark on my little corner of the world, on the people in my life. It's not about inspiring billions of people, or changing the whole world. I probably won't ever inspire or change the whole world, and that's okay. If I have inspired one person in this world, if I have changed a small portion of this world, than that's enough. 

That will always be enough.
There is something though, something these people telling me this don't know.  It's something they may overlook, something they may not find important, but it is. It is important to me. 
They are my inspiration.
I'm not even sure they realize this, diary, but it's the truth.
And that, is one of the greatest gifts anyone can give me. 
That, right there, is amazing and important,
Amazing and important to me.

Love Forever and Always,

Me