"Inspiration" by Nicholas S

     What inspires you? When we think of major inspirations some might think of Jackie Robinson or even Elon Musk for some. I asked this question the other day to a few of my friends with varying responses. A few said nothing inspires them, few mentioned real people, and the others just said Goku. But no matter how obscure some of them might be, they don’t mean any less than the more common answers. Living or not, anything has the ability to inspire and help shape the person that you are. The topic came across my mind recently when thinking about who I was, and how I ended up as this weird pile of feelings. When I first thought about what things might have inspired me throughout my life, I could not think of a single thing that I felt inspired me. But that was because I was narrowing down my options to only real influential people instead of thinking about the bigger picture. I might not have been inspired by some famous guy or girl but I found out that early on even now, what inspired me most was music. Music really helped inspire me to create and to go out and do a lot of things that I never knew I could do. It helps motivate and power through rough times and ultimately it helped shape me into the person that I am today. This was just a small example of how inspirations affect us but inspiration is important to our society as a whole even throughout history. The people that inspire a majority of us today were most likely inspired themselves to become the person that they are now. We don’t need to be inspired by people exclusively however. Even things like video games or cartoons might inspire some. Characters from media can inspire people to be brave or even kind to people. More recently, Marvel movies and their characters have been inspire millions even if they aren't real. I can imagine that millions of people either young or old have been inspired by the heroic acts Iron Man might make on screen.
     I believe it’s also important to strive to become an inspiration to others as well. You might already be an inspiration to some, and you just don’t know it yet. To be an inspiration you don’t necessarily need to be talented by any means, but of course you can’t just do nothing and expect people to be inspired by your actions. People might see the effort you put into your work or see how you manage to keep a smile on your face even through difficult times and be inspired by that. Your future or present job may even be inspiring to some, no matter the job. Of course i'm not trying to say that you should do things just to inspire other people. You should be doing things because you want to do them not just to inspire people, but we can also inspire people with what we do.