Let It Matter

I don’t think we’re here just to make money or rack up accomplishments. I really don’t. I think we’re here to live on purpose. To wake up each day and choose something- no matter how small - that nudges the world just slightly toward better.

Not everyone’s purpose looks like changing the world. Sometimes it’s changing the energy in a room. Sometimes it’s listening- really listening - to someone who’s never been heard. Sometimes it’s offering kindness when you’re the one who needs it most. But that spark, that flicker of “this matters,” is everything.

I’ve seen what happens when we stop answering that spark.

Recently, I walked into a home I used to share - where a life I helped build was frozen in time. The dishes were stacked, the air stale with screens and silence. And someone I once deeply cared for had slipped into the soft gravity of avoidance. The couch, the games, the routine. It wasn’t malicious. It wasn’t even lazy. It was… empty.

And it broke something tender in me. Not because it’s my burden anymore - but because our children still walk through that house. Because I once believed in his potential. Because I know how dangerous it is when we stop caring, not just for ourselves, but for the world we’re part of.

It made me reflect on how easily we all can drift. I’ve done it too. I’ve numbed myself with busyness, perfectionism, even love. I’ve lost sight of purpose more times than I can count. But each time I return, I do it with more reverence- for what it means to live wide awake.

Living with intention doesn’t mean having it all figured out. It means being willing to ask the harder questions:

• Am I proud of the way I’m showing up?

• Am I creating the kind of world I want my children to live in?

• Am I making room for connection, empathy, growth - or just keeping the volume down?

We all carry the seed of something holy. A quiet calling toward integrity, toward meaning. And though we may forget it, or bury it under distraction, it never stops pulsing.

The truth is - time isn’t promised. But presence is. And if we’re lucky, we get to decide what we’ll do with this day. This moment. This breath.

So no, it’s not about being perfect or endlessly productive. It’s about choosing to engage with this life like it matters. Because it does.

When you live from that place- when you lead with passion, empathy, and honest intention- you change the world in ways you may never even see.

So whatever you’re carrying, building, hoping - let it matter.

The world doesn’t need more noise.

It needs more heart.

And maybe yours is the one it’s been waiting for.