I want to be a change maker.

"Social entrepreneurs pave avenues of opportunity for those who would, otherwise, be locked into lives without hope." This week was a week of discovery. Everything I had to read and listen to has helped me form an idea of what I want to do in my life. I've always had the dream to make a change. I've realized that I want to be a change maker.  I want to work with the social entrepreneurial heroes of today. I don't have one great big idea to save the human race but I want to work to make this world a better place. That has always been my dream. Today listening to Rob Tonks you could feel his passion. One thing that I loved was when he discussed the fact that this movement is God inspired. We are part of this great generation and I couldn't help but think, "what am I going to do to help with this God inspired movement?"

When I first headed off to college I was trying to find a major that would fit with my passion. I wanted to find some way I could make a difference. Any major can make difference but I wasn't sure which way I wanted to go about it. I started with humanities, I enjoyed some of the classes but it wasn't my passion. After my second trip with an organization called Outreach360 I decided to switch my major to elementary education. Took one class and knew that this major wasn't for me. After returning from my mission in the Dominican Republic I found that my major needed to be Sociology and I did find my place in a certain major. What does this have to do with what I want to become? I want to make a difference, my passion is helping with education in underdeveloped countries and also help change the sex industry throughout the world. I've found that it will be hard but that through my major I can push to make a change and become involved. Even if I don't exactly know how yet. 

When I first heard of the word social entrepreneur I thought, "that's exactly what I want to do." Not even truly understanding what that meant. I'm not someone with one big great idea. The end of the article "Not Everyone Should Be a Social Entrepreneur" was exactly what I needed to read. "They needn't be founders of new organizations to have an impact on the world. But they should be founders of their careers." I've realized that I need to make a change with my major. I don't need to start up my own organization because their are a lot of others out their that have grown and are already pursuing my passion. Why not go in with m talents and be the change maker that I want to be?