It is not trivial and it is not uncontroversial to want to make a difference, to strive to make a difference -- and to eventually end up making one. But you do. And that is why this scholarship is for people like you. Such capacities are rare, and it may well be far too mechanic to try to break it down. But we see that people making a difference tend to share some traits. They are passionate, affectionate and humble, and they never stop searching for inspiration from others in the world that surrounds us all.
You have passion for life. It manifests itself in a drive that makes way for things that other people only dream of. Passionate people are often controversial because they make their own footsteps -- they have to and they want to. They do so with unquestionable resolve and drive, which adds a twenty-fifth hour to any day that needs it. Passion makes people educate themselves to be better tomorrow than today at what they do. And passion is always best seen by the bystanders, for it is the natural humility in the passionate that makes it so.
But no passion without affection. Without affection, you run the risk of only attending your own needs. Affectionate people can devote themselves to others and realise that there may be another purpose in life than their own. Those other purposes, they make their own, and that is at the core of being affectionate. These people are often your children, your brother or sister, your partner, your parents or even your pet. But affection extends beyond that to include everyone and everything; the biggest problem for the affectionate is that you cannot save the entire world at once, and that prioritisation becomes the necessary evil.
Still, affection requires that you are humble. Affection does not guarantee that you do not take yourself too seriously or put yourself at the top of a pedestal. Being humble does. Being humble lets you meet other people with respect and at eye-height. Humility lets people benefit from new impressions -- they face the world with an open mind knowingly that their view may not always be at the core of truth. Real humility requires that you are not only reactive, but also proactive in seeking challenges to your view of the world. One of many ways to do this is to go abroad. Because one knows that one will only gain from getting a different perspective on the world from interacting with new people in new places and in new ways.
Finally, passion, affection, and humility culminate in an insatiable desire to seek inspiration from other people. Naturally, you are an inspiring character to other people, but that will cease to be so, lest you also let yourself inspire. And only people who pay attention to their surroundings can be inspired by these; only people who try new things will get inspiration; and only people who share inspiration will continue to grow. In that way inspiration is a gift, and a self-reinforcing one, once you share it.
You want to make a difference. And you will.