A community of youth working towards something meaningful to them
bring forth their own strengths, virtues, and, of course, issues
to build a campaign that will not only help them but also others.

What is more important . . . themselves or others?

Now there’s a non-question for you.
Importance should be measured in effort
the effort put forth here can and will help in many directions.

Whether self-centered or something more global
these avenues should not be individual,
but part of a greater whole.

I think that is what we uncovered here.
Individuals communing to produce something that can only
be a product of a something collective and, hopefully, is universal in importance.

The whole is greater than the sum of its parts
we are the parts and the whole is our mission
we are whole and our parts all contribute to our missions completion.

Written by Get Real NationWide Participant Todd, 21, Yukon Territory