Words of Confusion?

YOU (by Andre Bohrer)

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//fifty-two weeks of design

I think this week’s design speaks for itself.

The photograph was taken in the beautiful town of DeLand during their annual Christmas parade. Families gathered around. Friends chased each other in the grass. Little kids stood in awe with all the flashing lights. It was beautiful.

While I was attempting to figure out what message this design would attempt to convey, I was stuck. I spent close to an hour solely changing the text around.

Then, I saw Tin Tin.

It certainly changed things — quite a bit. There was specifically this one quote I couldn’t get out of my head. It was directed at Tin Tin when he was determined that he had failed.

Failed. There are plenty of others willing to call you a failure. A fool. A loser. A hopeless souse. Don’t you ever say it of yourself. You send out the wrong signal, that is what people pick up. Don’t you understand? You care about something, you fight for it. You hit a wall, you push through it. There’s something you need to know about failure, Tintin. You can never let it defeat you.

So listen here: You are not a failure. The things you once did do not have to define who you are now, or who you can become. No matter what your age, you contain the power to change this generation — the future of this world. Don’t let people discourage you. If you need someone to believe in you, I believe in you. Now stop settling for the common in your life. Stop watching, and start doing. God has a wild imagination, and he wants you to be a part of it. Don’t let words, things, or people stop you from what you were always created to do — it’s in your DNA.