The world around us today convinces us we need to be, think, and live a certain way. We are convinced that if we do not fit in with what an invisible audience claims is the norm, we are somehow less. Ashton Kutcher's speech at the Teen Choice Awards speaks to us, young people especially, about how we are never less. Despite what society and our peers tell us, we are just as smart as anyone else and have the ability to do anything we set our mind to.
Kutcher says, "Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you, and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use." We often marvel at our surroundings without realizing that we are just as capable as those who have created the world as we know it. We are not hopeless - we all have the ability to influence change and improvement as long as we are intelligent and thoughtful - the most important traits - as Kutcher says, "Everything else is crap." Society has skewed our views of what we value as important but it is this ability to think, influence, and create that is most vital to the continuation and progress human kind. It is within all of us, though we may not realize it.
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