Changes...

While the world is changing after the big revolutionary elections in the United States of America I am fighting my own fight on change. I learned that my biggest opponent in life will be me. Regardless of all the changes in the last 106 years that the new to become president Barack Obama referred to in his speach, I will have to be able to change myself. The slogan 'Yes, we can' could also be applied and turned in to 'Yes, I can', but it takes a lot of courage to say this.

As Obama said 100 years ago there were no cars and no planes. Al lot of changes were made in the many revolutions and now also black women are allowed to vote. This reminds me of the famous Dutch girl Aletta Jacobs. She had the guts to study Medicine amongst men and to change the world (at least in Holland) to accept women on Universities. Again this change was only possible because she had the courage to act against the opinions of others. To stand up for herself and keep believing in what she was standing for. For me it is sometimes really hard to keep believing in myself. Ok, I do not need to change the world, but it is already hard to change my very own little world. There are so many moments I feel insecure on what I am doing while I am often not showing. So I take life in little steps... one step first... The step that I take today is a little change in myself: try to get inspired by what others say on changes. My first step is to say: 'Yes, I can' to little things in life. Yes, I can make a small change. All it requires is looking at myself. With doing that I already change a lot!