A new way forward - Change your perspective.

Right here we go. I've not written a post in a while so if it's rubbishly formatted I'm sorry but you should get the general gist of what I'm saying, if not read it again. So changing perspective, it's a tough thing to do in this world of ever changing opinions, for example; One news station may give an opinion a story which you agree with as where another news station may give a completely different view that you also agree with and you feel torn between the two. Well this is kinda what this post is all about, a great way to start to change your own perspective is to stop looking from other peoples, looking at an issue from only one side is going to give you a biased opinion. Looking at any situation, event or issue from someone else's point of view is a very dangerous thing, it leaves you wide open to mistrust, disrespect and destructive criticism. You should always look at things from your own point of view, don't be influenced by negative and destructive views of others, keep focused on your own view, your own perspective. Own perspective is fundamental to a pioneer. You see you can't be a true pioneer with someone else's perspective because perspective provides vision and vision tells to where to go. Having someone else's perspective means that you also have their vision. Now I'm not necessarily saying that that is a bad thing, in church for example you need to follow your senior leaders vision but also need to make it your own. Most pioneers didn't just imagine a new way (some did but I'll get to that soon) they had input throughout thier life, they sought teaching's from previous pioneers, leaders and influencers. But these pioneers didn't just take in the teachings and apply them, they took it further, they had the mentallity that 'where we are isn't enough, we've got to go further' and they did, they took an idea/cultures/futures and ran with it. Bill Gates one of the world's richest and most influencial men saw a future where the computer came out of the science lab and into peoples homes and everyday lifes, he saw that future and he grabbed it with both hands and ran with it. He had a vision, he had his own perspective and through that he changed the world forever. Can you imagine if he saw that vision and just said 'nahh it's too much effort' can you actually imagine your life without computers, I probably wouldn't be writing this nor you be reading it. The scary thing is the mentality of 'nahh it's too much effort' is quickly growing in our generation and threating the future of our world, our generation needs to re-evaluate our perspective and insure the future of the next generation.

Thanks for reading
Aaron

Stand up and be counted

Stand up, do it, actually stand up (providing your sat down, if your not, sit down and stand up again)..done it? Feels good standing up doesn't it, no imagine what it feels like standing up for something, something your passionate about your faith, your beliefs, your family for example. Take me for example I stand for my generation, I stand for my faith.

There is a famous quote ' If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything' I don't want to fall for anything, I want to be able to go to the grave knowing that I stood for something, that I made a difference. I want to know that I was a man of significance and that I actually made a difference to this world. In that I choose to stand for the things that are close to me, for example; my youth group Two Twenty, my church TCC, my friends, my faith, my family. They're the things I want to stand for.

But in standing for something you can't just say you stand for something unless you actually live it, day in day out, it has to run through our veins. I guess what I mean is you have to be passionate about it, and the thing about passion is that no one should ever have to ask you what you're passionate about, they should just be able to see it in you.

This whole post was inspired by a talk from my youth leader and one of my closest friends who I've mentioned before so I won't mention him again. But in his talk about this he summed up what this entire blog is about when he said "I choose to stand for my generation" that's what this blog was set up to do, stand up and be counted.

You look through history's giants and world changers, Dr Martin Luther King Jr for example, he saw an injustice and he stood up and said something and shared his vision, although to this day his vision has not been fully completed as there are people who insist on dragging it down but he changed the way the colour of a persons skin or any other difference was treated, he truly set about equality.


Aaron
(Mr_Aaron_B Twitter)

We Are The Love Generation.

We are the generation. The generation called to carry a bigger responsibility than any generation before us, we're called to love and be loved. We are called to change the way society work, to go against social normality's and make a difference in this world. This is what this blog is all about, making a difference, being the change. 1 Timothy 1:5 (MSG) simply says ' The whole point of what we're urging is simply love - love uncontaminated by self-interest and counterfeit faith, a life open to God'. People are what drives me forward, keeps me going, seeing life for what it really is, not life surrounded by media and negativity but life with passion, love and hope. Life is impossible without these things, we can't thrive without it. If you read this, all i ask of you is that you lead your life full of passion, love and hope.