“It’s too far to step, but I could walk if you wanted me to”

Posted on February 17, 2010 by The Engineer

That’s what I told my teacher in 4th grade when she asked me to step outside.  Yeah, I was probably really annoying.

I’ve always something against authority figures.  I can distinctly remember thinking to myself about Mrs. Sesserego at Pasadena Elementary – “if I’m a person, and she’s a person, then we’re equal, why does she get to tell me what to do?”  I was 9 at the time.

But then again, we if just easily fall in line, where is that going to get us?  Probably right next to all your neighbors, coworkers, and the  majority of the population in your country – the middle of the road.  The middle class.  The middle wage earners, and the 1.5 kids, dog, and a cubicle.

There’s something to be said for doing something a little different.

Seth Godin says that in order to make change, in order to do somethingn different, to be indispensible, we can’t be ’sheep-walkers’.  We need to lift out heads up out of the sand, take a stand, and be a leader.

This is exactly what I’m doing with my life.

I’ve never been one to follow the leader.  Are you?  Or will you lead us?

Like Seth says, “Start a movement.  Something that matters.  Start.  Do it.  We need it.”