Who is your Spark?

A while ago, i have been asked by a university to write a 900 words essay answering "Who is you Spark"
I though i would share something :)

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

     This is the quotation that I want to start my essay with, but it does not mean that Mahatma Gandhi is my spark. It is quite hard to find a spark as a person, but rather as a personality, which might, after all, not exist; A personality which works as a trigger for you to start something new, or make a change in our world. A spark for me is the person who is full of creativity and eagerness, fully believing in himself and ignoring all sentences that include the word impossible while staying realistic to a large extent. My spark is a person who is able to make something out of nothing, a person who is able to make things possible and has the ability to convince people that it is possible.

My Spark should not have a spark, rather should be the pioneer of the original, the pioneer of the belief of a new world full of peace and understanding. If you have a Spark, then you are depending  on others, you wait for others to say things that you will obey, you wait for others to do things so you can copy, you wait for others to go somewhere so that you can follow. A Spark should be oneself, the one that we can trust the most and the one we can expect the best from. It should be a person who never hesitates to do what is right, since hesitation is the enemy of the mind and creativity.

    My spark is myself, I am the one who believes in himself, who believes that whatever he aims for can be achieved and can be done. I had a hard life and a struggling childhood which showed me that impossible is nothing, and I decided to start from my life as a source of inspiration,  convincing myself that I will be the change I want to see in the world, starting from within, my family, friends, society, country and the world altogether.

I struggled a lot in my life in order to support myself and my family financially and to pay for my school fees and transportation. I sacrificed my time, my chances of academically succeeding for the sake of my family even though I am the youngest. I sacrificed my creativity, filled my time with school, work and sleep. I never had time to do extra academics, or think of an invention or write an article about politics or life. This is what I had to pay so that my family can survive, and so that my brother can go to college. My spark is myself who was able to make sacrifices and suffer in order to give value to its achievements and give a possibility for his dreams.

 Since the age of ten, I had clear aims and goals, which were as simple as that nobody should have the childhood that I had, my country should not go to war anymore, and children my age should go to school for free, enjoy peace and proper education. Living under war never made me think that I should hide or that I should surrender, it made me start thinking how to make peace and give up a lot so that all the coming generations have peace. I made my plans to make a change in our world, and they are all achievable. I am the one who will face the unknown where I have to face reality and make a turnover in my life. I trust myself for being able to change; I aim high and try to achieve. I aim to be in the position where I can force peace and sustainable living for the country and the society. To make sure nobody will suffer what I suffered. My spark should not be afraid of dreaming big, having great ambitions and working for their realizations. This is what made me come to a place I have never heard of, and take an international education with all its stress and demands, and now I have great projects and dreams in mind of success and leadership. I have never failed before in trying new ideas, but the moment I failed, it meant it was a moment to learn and keep on succeeding. It is not impossible to be what you want to be as long as we decide to and take the challenge. Impossible is nothing, nothing is impossible.

        This is why I do not have a Spark, for the spark for me is myself not somebody, not a book, neither a movie, nor a leader. If I believe in leadership, I should be the leader, if believe in change I should be the change, if I believe in something, then it is myself and my abilities and my responsibility towards the globe which provided me with everything I needed. A spark should not be afraid of recognizing its limits and should be ready to admit its mistakes even if it might be embarrassing....A spark lives inside each and every one of us but we need to search for it, it is never somewhere else rather than our will and ambitions and our belief in our capacities.

And I will end my essay saying “Be the Spark you wish to see in the world…”