How To Start a Revolution: Pt. 1, Introduction

Part 1 The Introduction: or What Are You Trying To Change

   This is as much for me as it is for anyone reading this blog. How do you start a revolution, how do you effect lasting change when you don't like the status quo? Where do you even start? These are things I have been asking myself. I am not happy with many of the things I see and hear around me everyday and I feel like I have no way to fix any of it.

   How does a normal, well sort of normal, person find the power first in themselves, and then in the world around them to stand up and make a difference. We have countless examples of people in history who have taken that step and we hear their stories of triumph, but what we don't hear is the road that leads there in the first place. We don't hear about the feelings of frustration and powerlessness that precede that first step. We don't hear the failures and false starts that come before the first triumph. And we absolutely never hear someone who has been there and made a difference tell the rest of us how to do it for themselves.

   I realize that some of this is because the road has to be different for everyone, for every cause and every outcome. There is no road map because the road changes every time. A revolution is a new way forward, a new road, a new idea, a new normal, and in the end, a new status quo which should then incite it's own revolution.

   So this is where I start, at the beginning, feeling like there should be some change and looking to make a map for myself that leads to a new way of life. I am open to suggestions, and comments, discussion or even criticism, but this is my road and my map, and I am going to see where it leads.