letters-to-lgbt-kids:

My dear lgbt+ kids,

If you’re the kind of person who wants to change the world, wants to do something meaningful, then you probably experienced the frustration before that comes with the thought that you’re failing at that.

It’s so easy to feel like a failure. Changing the world is a big and noble goal – and such a vague one. It can feel like you’d need lots of power or money or even the ability to perform miracles for that. If you don’t have any of that, can you even do something meaningful at all?

If you ever struggle with such worries, I want to tell you something:

You are already changing peoples lives, here and now. Without even knowing it.

Of course people with power and money can do big things, I’m not denying that. But you don’t need to be president for your actions to affect other people.

You make people smile. You make people feel listened to and cared for. You make someone’s day a little bit brighter. You make a dog wag their tail. You may even save someone’s life.

And if you read this and think “But I don’t”, then that’s because it’s not a big extraordinary thing for you to do. You just do that by being alive, by going through your usual day to day routine. You smile at a stranger or you reblog a funny pun or you send a good morning text or you hug your friend or hey, you pet your dog. Without even knowing it, you just made the world a tiny, tiny bit happier.

It matters. You matter.

With all my love,
Your Tumblr Mom