What do you stand for?

I'm still not sure what I stand for.

What do I stand for?

What do I stand for?

Most nights, I don't know anymore...

"Some nights" by Fun

What do you stand for? What is it that you fight for? What is it that drives you forward? That is todays question... In one or two words tell us what you stand for and why you fight for it.

For me I stand for Hope. Hope for others, hope for those who have given up on hope. I think hope is the most important thing there is, hope that tomorrow will be better than today, hope that if I can just make it over this hurdle it will be smooth sailing ahead. Without hope is depression, without hope we stop living and just survive.

I work with severly Autistic children, and I work so hard each day to give them a brighter future, and to return a little hope into their parents hearts. I often come home bleeding, and my body is covered in scars, but I am okay with that, it is a price I am willing to pay. Everytime I bleed I hope for myself that tomorrow will be better than today, (and that we didn't run out of bandaids yet) but I also hope for them, a hope that the pain and frustration that they feel each day is lessend, even a little bit, by my being in their lives. I return hope to the parents, hope that all the worst case scenarios that they have lived a million times in their heads might not come to pass. A hope that the mysteries that are locked behind thier child's eyes might one day be shared and understood.

Hope. If I stand for nothing else in this world that is enough. If that is to be my legacy, I can think of nothing else I would rather have it be.

Troy