Today’s blog topic is for the NAIEW Words Matter Blog Challenge is:

What speech or document do you believe to be most important?

This may sound high-falutin’ or fey, but the most important document is the internal one that guides our life.

We all have an innate belief about ourselves that guides our life. It may be a false belief: I am not worthy. I am powerless. Or it may be an overstated on: I’m king of the world! Regardless, it is an internal document that lights the path we trod.

Here’s the thing: we can edit it, rewrite it, trash it and start anew. We can listen to the message of that internal document and decide it’s false. I don’t have to believe I’m lazy because I don’t tat, iron, and polish silver while I watch television. The messages I took from childhood don’t have to be the words that give meaning to my adulthood.
I’m not lazy. I’m not worthless. I don’t have to settle. I can decide — today, this instant — that the internal document I’ve had since I was in middle school is wrong (and is there anything from middle school we should hang onto?). I’m going to rewrite it to better resemble my reality: I am a busy woman with limited time for myself. Sometimes, I’m going to sit down and watch Glee and not do anything else at the same time, not even make a to-do list or do crunches during the ads.

Will the new words change history? They can change my history, and changing my history can change my child’s. And maybe he will grow up to change the world because of it.