There’s a video that I first saw this past Sunday. In fact, we ended up showing it later that night in our youth service. It’s an incredibly heart-warming and laugh out loud pep talk you won’t want to miss. If you haven’t seen it yet, seriously, take a second to go here and watch it and then come back. We’ll wait for you. No worries!
There were so many great points in that pep talk, but I want to concentrate on one. It was one of the laugh out loud moments for me.
“What will be your Space Jam?”
I mean, Space Jam was hardly what we were expecting to hear there. When it comes to Michael Jordan, I guess I was anticipating something about…I dunno…his remarkable basketball career!! Apparently that mid-90’s movie meant a lot to this boy who hadn’t even been born when it was produced.
That’s what’s kind of funny about it. Space Jam wasn’t Michael Jordan’s most glowing achievement. It wasn’t what he’d be most known for. But it mattered to someone. It made a difference and impacted someone. And that someone is encouraging and challenging more and more people every day as the play count rises.
What it shows us is that what we may be wrong in our assumptions. I think most of us figure that the big things are what matter most. That our biggest achievements will be the only significant ones. It’s like we’re playing king of the hill. We’re going after that one thing that’s going to get us on top where everyone (or maybe just the right ones) can see us and what we’ve done and appreciate us.
Perhaps it’s not so simple. Maybe we need the side projects in our lives. I know many of my blog’s readers come from some incredibly varied backgrounds. I realize that we have diverse jobs and hobbies. Some of us have a habit of downplaying what we do for either of those. We feel what we do is somehow insignificant. It’s not that important.
Nonsense! We’re adding flavor to this world. We’re trying new things. We’re improving old things. We’re expressing thoughts and emotions. We’re creating. We’re crafting. We’re at least trying. Maybe what we’re doing won’t make us famous. But maybe it will bring happiness to our lives and even to a few others. That’s good, right?
So what will be your Space Jam? What will be your small thing that you do that will potentially impact others? Don’t be ashamed of it. Enjoy what you’re doing and smile because you are making the world more awesome!