Inspiration...

Inspiration is defined as being mentally stimulated to do or feel something, especially something creative. To me, inspiration is something that makes you feel something or makes you want to do something. Almost anything can be inspirational, depending on the person being inspired and what they like. Words can be inspirational. Music can be inspirational. People can be inspiration. Inspiration is all around us, and it is our choice to let it inspire us or not. 

          One of the most inspirational things in my life is words. Words can have a huge impact on a person, depending on the tone in which they are said or written. To a writer like me, words can make you feel. They convey the emotions of the writer or speaker, and you start to feel their emotions inside of yourself. Words inspire me to write as well. When I see really good, powerful writing, it makes me want to take my writing to that next level and be just as good as the writer who wrote them. Words of joy make me yearn for happiness and fun times, and words of sadness make me remember all the sad times I have encountered in my life. Words speak to my soul; I can take them in for all of their worth and power and understand the true meaning behind them and exactly what they will inspire me to do. It’s an amazing process and feeling and I love every minute of it.

          Another thing that really inspires me is happy people. When I see people who are happy and smiling and seem carefree, I yearn for what they have. I want that kind of happiness and tranquility for myself. Their happiness inspires me to push myself toward my own happiness. It makes me reflect on all of the sadness and negativity in my life and it makes me see that I deserve better than that. I deserve to be happy, and the only person that can really make me happy is me. Their happiness inspires me to be happy and to spread my happiness to others as they spread theirs to me. They make me want to wake up happy and appreciative of life, and that’s something I’d never really wanted before. 

          Broken people also inspire me, as horrible as that sounds. You see, I myself was broken at one time, so I know what it feels like. I know how it is to feel like you’re shattered into tiny pieces and like nobody really even cares about you. I’ve been through some horrible things, and I don’t want anyone to have to feel the things I’ve felt. Broken people, or people who feel like they’re broken, inspire me to be a better person. They inspire me to help them and be for them, because they truly need someone to care. They make me want to help them and heal them to the best of my abilities. 

          Music is another thing that I find to be really inspirational. A lot of the music that I listen to has inspirational lyrics, surprisingly enough. Music also speaks to my soul the way words do, so I guess the two of them would go hand in hand in my situation. I listen to bands that have music that inspires me to do something, like be happy or work toward being the best that I can be, or even to just learn to let go. Music is such an amazing thing, and there are certain lyrics that when you hear them, you just know that you want what they say and you’re so mentally stimulated by them. Lyrics like “Somehow everything's going to fall right into place, if we only had a way to make it all fall faster every day," from Hallelujah by Paramore, inspire me to have hope and believe that somehow everything will fall into place and to stop worrying so much. Art inspires me as well. Seeing art, good art, makes me want to be more creative. It makes me want to push myself and see what I can do and what I’m capable of doing.

          Some of the most inspirational people in my life are my best friends. Truthfully, I haven’t known most of them very long but it feels like I have. They are all such honest, caring, trustworthy people. They’re all amazing people and they have always been there for me through everything I’ve went through since I met them last school year. It’s people like this that inspire me – those who put others’ needs and feelings before their own. My best friends inspire me to be a better friend myself. They inspire me to be more like them, to be more caring and to always be there for me like they’ve been for me. They also inspire me to go for whatever I want and to take risks, because life really is short. Everything they have been for me, I am inspired to be for them. I am inspired to be a better version of myself and do for them what they have done for me. I love them all dearly, and I thank them for making me want to be a better person.

          The most interesting thing that I draw inspiration from is my past. This may sound dumb, but I look back on my past a lot and I’ve realized that I never want to be like I was or go through any of those horrible things ever again. My past inspires me to work toward a better future for myself. It makes me want to break away from all of the sadness and negativity and pain I’ve felt and go toward happiness. It makes me want to push myself in the right direction instead of letting life knock me down. It makes me want to be a better, happier person and try to appreciate my life now and everyone that’s in it. Looking back makes me see that my life really isn’t as bad as I think it is, and that inspires me to make sure I always remember that and work toward making it even better.