you were not made for smallness

You were not made for smallness. 

There is a long tradition, older than any religion and present in all of them, of reminding human beings what they actually are.

The Zoroastrians called it the divine spark. The Stoics called it the logos within. The Sufi poets called it the beloved. The names change. The insistence does not: that what lives inside a person is not small, was never meant to be small, and is diminished not by circumstance but by forgetting... But we forget constantly. The structures around us are very good at producing the forgetting. 

This shirt is not motivational. It is not asking you to hustle or optimize or become your best self by Friday. It is saying something quieter and older than that: that the smallness was never yours to begin with. It was handed to you. 

You were made for more.