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Want to Create Change in the World? Here’s Where to Start

Want to Create Change in the World? Here’s Where to Start by Sophia Smith. Photograph of the Atlas statue in NYC by Siddhant Kumar
Photograph by Siddhant Kumar

If you want to make a difference in the world, don’t think you need to start big… just start somewhere

Change is a slow, patient thing. It never comes overnight, it’s never obvious until it’s already there, and it’s never about one grand act. Change isn’t in a single gesture; it’s a million seemingly inconsequential ones. It lives inside us every single day and needs to be nurtured the way you would a growing child — with love, forbearance, and consistency.

Changing the world for the

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