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Chump Change

How a chump was changed when he changed his mind about the real changes he needed to make.

By Thavien YliasterPublished 4 years ago Updated 4 years ago 4 min read
Chump Change
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I'm a chump. I need to change. I'm a chump that needs to change.

Since I'm a chump, I pick up change. I pick up chump change.

I'm a chump that picks up change cause' I desire it within myself to change.

I desire to change who I am. I desire to change my outcomes in life. I desire to change the problems I get to deal with in life. I desire to change who I want to be. I desire to change who I want to be with. I desire to change where I want to be. I desire to change what I want to do.

I'm a chump. I desire change. Everyday when I stroll by change that I see on the ground I pick it up.

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I'm a chump, therefore I pickup that change. I pick up that change that nobody else desires to pick up. They'd rather not even stare at it as they stroll by, because they see themselves better off without that change. As they stroll by, they can think that change is filthy, dirty, to small, and beneath them. They can see the people that pick up that change as beneath them as much as they see the change being beneath them. Why should they bother to pick up that change? Why should they bother to change?

All that glitters is not gold. Every coin, every bit of change that my grubby, chumpy hands pick up does not always shine and denote the value that that change truly has. It is more than a store of value, it is more than currency, it is more than a nation's exchange of goods and services from across the borders to country-to-country.

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Whether it's a half-dollar, a quarter, a dime, a nickel, or a penny, I will pick up that change. Why? Why do I pick up that change?

I see it in myself that I desire to change so badly that every little bit counts and matters. As I save the change that I pickup, as I save the changes as I type, as I save the changes as I further continue to write, I recognize that I'm a chump, and therefore I pick up that chump change.

I'm a chump, and I will no longer be a chump. As I pick up change. It is the change that I pick up that will no longer help me to be a chump. It is the changes within my daily life that I make to pick up that will no longer make me a chump. It is the change that is within me that resonates with the change that I see sprawled all about me that I pick up. It is the change that I picked up when I was less than a chump that helped to make me a chump. It will still be that change that when I am no longer a chump; when I am no longer a person who ever has to feel that my head is held lower, no longer as a person who ever has to feel that my store of value is lesser, no longer as a person who ever has to feel that I do not bring forth great commodities that are merely just my time and energy, that I will still continue to pick up.

It is that change that has helped me to change from way back when to the great now and to the even further then that I will pick up. It is that change that people have called chump change cause' they only said it's worthy of chumps that I have continued to pick up.

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It is that change that most of those ignorant, that have made me to feel indignant, that have warned that those chumps will squander that change. It is that change, that those chumps who did not desire change but were happy being less than the value of the change that they could pick up, that they have picked up, that was squandered. It is the change that I have picked up, that I have squandered before, that I squander no more, that I continue to pick up cause' I see, cause' I believe, in more of the value that it has as it adds to mine.

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It is the change that I continue to pick up that has been spread over into my life, possibly, likely forgotten by others that I continue to pick up. It is the change that others have told me to pick up that I pick up. It is the change that others have led me to pick up that I pick up.

It is the chump change that I persistently pick up. It is the chump change that I interestingly pick up. It is the chump change that earns me interest that picks itself up for me. It is the chump change that I continue to pick up with compound persistence with which I reap the rewards from such interests. As I have made picking it up to be of an interests. So, that interests compounds for me with such fervent persistence that I have yet witnessed. As I watch it continue to grow, I continue to harvest, to reap, to plant, the seeds that I continue to sow.

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I am a chump. I pick change. I pick up chump change. Someday I will no longer be a chump. So, one day that will no longer be a chump's change.

Author's Note: If you'd like to listen, please copy and paste the link below to hear my voice on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fsEwI_tidM

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Thavien Yliaster

Thank You for stopping by. Please, make yourself comfortable. I'm a novice poet, fiction writer, and dream journalist.

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