After watching the short clip of Ashton Kutcher's acceptance speech what did you take away from his advice? What does this quote mean to you -"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."
To me, this quote is a call to action. It's meant to shift the paradigm that we have lived in for as long as we can remember. It calls attention to one of the greatest questions of all: what is life about? The first part of the quote is much more interesting to think about. Society has been crafted by average human beings since man first used a club to defend themselves from dinosaurs (and yes, that is accurate). No higher power set the rules on society that humans would live by forever; the way we live is influenced every day, and with each experience. "Life" is constantly changing as new ideas, new products, and new conflicts force us to adapt and change the way we live our lives. The latter half of the quote is what I referred to earlier as the call to action. Now that our eyes have been opened to the impressionable world we live in, Kutcher encourages people to leave their own mark. People should strive to improve the world they live in both for themselves and the people around them. So go out and act. You can make a difference.
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