Someone like you....

Let me talk to about inspiration.

Is it inspiring watching the "under dog" sports teams rising against the odds and beating the top leagues?
Is it inspiring listening to music that makes you feel?
Is it inspiring seeing your best friend achieve a dream she has wanted for so long?
Is it inspiring hearing the words you feel but just could never say?
Is it inspiring to see someone smile, I mean truly smile even when the going gets tough?

Short answer, yes it is inspirational.

But is it inspiring?

Inspirational is defined as "imparting a divine influence on the mind and soul"

But inspiring makes YOU INSPIRED. So what is inspiring about the list I have just given? The emotions your get from them? People getting what they want? The hope it gives people that anything is possible?

Or is the most inspiring things of all those stories something which you don't even know? Something which you can only guess? I'm talking about the underlying stories of how it happened. How did someone create such a beautiful song that can save your soul? How do people achieve there dreams when the world can throw so much bad at them? How did someone find the strength to smile after a bad day?

By writing this I was hoping I would get inspired or perhaps you would get inspired. But really what this is about applies to so much more than just inspiration! You get out what you put into things. You work hard, you make dreams happen. You can look at a story and think its inspirational. Or you can look a little deeper and find reason. It could be the harder route, you could get lost and get hurt. But you could help someone, you could be part of an inspirational story, you could find your self and your could make someone else dream come true. Now this is all only personal opinion, but you can roll along life scraping the surfaces and live a perfectly normal, satisfactory life. Or you can go through rough and tumble, dig a little deeper and have an utterly imperfect, brilliant life.

Go on, find your inspiration and be INSPIRED ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qemWRToNYJY

(Yes it was Adele who inspired this post, she it utterly amazing!)