Wisdom to Change

 

As I really start planning my game plan for how I’m going to bring all my ideas to life over the future, I find myself face to face with my greatest ally, but at the same time, in so many ways foe -Social media. It’s probably pretty clear to anyone that follows any of my social medias that I am currently attempting to build a name for myself on the internet. I seriously love the internet. It has video games, and education, and art, and music, and endless opportunities to join new communities, AND SO MANY VIDEOS OF CATS. What is there not to love?

Unfortunately on top of all of those really amazing things, there’s also a huge negative side of social media. I think partially due to my new sensitivity to blatant negativity when it was something I used to simply overlook, and partially due to the fact that I know everything from this point on in my life is going to be put on display for the entire world to judge, but I am finding it increasingly hard to scroll through my social media threads these days and not feel disappointed and honestly just all around yucky based off the kind of posts I see. It amazes me that we have this incredible tool at the tip of all of our fingertips and we’re using it to make statuses complaining about what other people are wearing or doing in their spare time. The internet is a gift for our generation. It is creating limitless outlets, careers, opportunities. Education IS FREE ON THE INTERNET.
Seriously, pick anything you want to learn, it’s there, somewhere. Someone has already put the work into creating an article or tutorial video for you to learn from and use for any use you can get out of it, and for some reason people are still using this precious tool as a way to alienate, mock, and tear each other down. Like, come on, you really don’t have ANYTHING better to do with your time then write condescending posts with the full intent to make someone somewhere upset and or feel bad about themselves? You can’t have watched all the cat videos already, IT’S IMPOSSIBLE. I’VE TRIED.

I’ve struggled a lot in the last year trying to find some kind of solid ground to stand on to start building my web empire of art because the internet is so intimidating these days. With so many people sitting behind their keyboards and phone screens waiting for the next person to fail , the idea of putting my projects that I pour my heart and soul and passion into up on the web is down right terrifying. which is sad because it shouldn’t be. A question I’ve struggled with multiple times over the last while is “am I trying too hard?” when the question that really should be up for asking is “when did trying hard become a bad thing?” SERIOUSLY WHEN. There are more opportunities today than there ever have been. There will be a thousand new opportunities tomorrow. This is the era of trying hard, we are the generation building businesses from the ground up, building entire careers based on passion not finance. If you’re not trying hard to utilize these thousands of tools and opportunities that literally surround you 360 degrees, then maybe you should be. Or at the very least please find a better way to spend your time then complaining about gym selfies, and what white girls are wearing these days.

The way I see it is there is a spark lighting amongst our generation, and we are quickly being separated into two type’s of people; the do-er’s. and the complainers. Do you want to be the kind of millennial that fits the entitled stereotype or do you want you be the kind that’s bringing new ideas to the table every day, that’s helping create a better world then the one we’ve been handed? I’ve picked my side. Have you picked yours?
I’d like to conclude this all by letting all of you know right now that my name is Brittany Ings, and I am going to be a content creator. I am going to be a photographer. I am going to be a vlogger. I am going to be a digital artist. I am going to be a music producer. I am going to be a performer. I am going to be a tri-athlete. I am going to write a book. I am going to do and be everything I’ve ever wanted to be because this is 2017 and I am privileged enough to live in an era where resources to help me do so are limitless. I am going to build a life entirely based on my own passions and helping other people find and create theirs. I am going to change how people think. I am going to change lives.
Or I am going to die trying.