What Do I Want to Be?

Not what you think.

People ask, "What do you want to be when you grow up?"

I reply with the occupation of my dreams, with my career goals and aspirations, but really, I just want one thing, and it doesn't matter how I get there.

I want to be inspiring. Not famous, not popular, but inspiring.

I want to be the person who introduces someone to their passion. The person who's name they'll remember until their dying day.

I want to say something that opens someone's eyes and makes them stop and think. I want to blow their mind away.

I want to do something that people haven't done before. I want to be the dictionary definition of originality.

I want to write things that stick in your mind. Things that give you chills, things that you read over and over and over yet you can still find more meaning hidden in the letters.

And as much as I want these things, I understand that they can't be planned.

These things just happen.

And they happen to some people way more than others.

I'm still here, waiting with the "others."

But it'll happen to me.

I can feel it.