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What Exactly Does it Mean to be Inspirational?

I decided I needed to get back to this blogging thing because doing this student teaching life i realize how much i am learning constantly every day about myself and about others. last week one of my students told me "my mom told me i need to look up to you because you are an inspiration" . hmmm there's that word again inspiration.  you know I've never realized how greatly that word is used around me until i was honored with the title of the most inspirational senior at my high school but the more i get called inspirational the more questions arise in my head: what exactly makes me inspirational? is it because i go through life with a disability? because if it is that then i don't know if i want to be called inspirational. according to the dictionary to inspire  is to fill someone with the urge or ability to do or feel something.  so then i tend to think to myself what exactly is it that i do or am to fill someone with the urge to do something because you