Make the world around you bigger or make your inner insecurities make you smaller.
There is always a choice.
Within all of us, there is an opportunity to strive for challenges and inspire the next person. Going towards this path often helps others seek it, even when they can, by all external accounts, be further along than you. Everyone, no matter how far along they are, can feed off of good energy.
That is why an organization like the Special Olympics makes the world bigger. Differently abled individuals strive and can influence someone like Arnold Schwarzenegger.
One of our weaker paths, like the person below, makes us smaller. It succumbs to the need to be liked by others. The cheapest route is being cynical, spending time belittling those who seem like “easy targets” for the other bullies. The result is a net negative. It doesn’t make the world bigger; you just make some people laugh and shrink the courage of those around you. You also do it to yourself, because you don’t want to be “other.” That means you might be next, so you better not be the tall poppy.
When given a choice, strive. You’ll be much more memorable that way.
From the desk of Adam Thomas 