So I had the honor of writing a post for Jason Clark's blog again and I would love for everyone to go check it out and comment on it! I wrote about the movie Little Miss Sunshine and how the father was redeemed throughout the movie and how he redeemed his family. It came from a church sermon I heard at my parent's church I visited a few weeks ago. I love movies and finding deeper meanings so it was right up my alley! Go check it out!
As I've mentioned in other blogs, I work at a residential treatment center for teens. I am officially a fill-in counselor so I have had the opportunity to work at the girls' house as well as the school and the boys' house. This last week I spent 3 days in a row helping at the boys house during the day. They were on their "summer break" where they don't go to school but still have to do something educational and/or recreational. On Wednesday, I had the honor of driving one of the minivans down to Denver to the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. We went to see an IMAX film that was about an expedition to the Titanic. The boys, of course, were bored stiff, but I thought it was pretty interesting. They not only talked about the ship, but the stories of the people on the ship-- the good and the bad. There was a man who will forever be remembered as the guy who didn't put enough lifeboats on the ship-- how's that for a legacy? But they also talked about the people who are considered heroic-- the telegraph operator, the musicians who played to keep people calm until the ship went down, the men who got as many people as they could on the lifeboats. The guy who was narrating (and on the expedition) said something pretty remarkable. He was talking about heroism and the people who were heroes vs. the people who took the fight or flight response and refused to go back to get more people on the lifeboats. He said "people as a whole are not heroic, it's the unique few who make heroes." (okay, that isn't a direct quote cuz I can't remember it exactly). But the point of it all was that in the last few hours/minutes of these people's lives, they were heroes-- and will be remembered forever as being such. What an awesome legacy to leave behind. The narrator said about one man, "2/3 of the people who survived have ____ [I can't remember his name] to thank for it." WHOA! That is awesome! What kind of legacy will you leave behind? What will people remember you for? Being stingy and a penny pincher that inevitably caused the unnecessary death of thousands? Or being the one who used his last few minutes of life to continually call for help and play music to help others stay calm?
I'm having a life-crisis. Now that moving is over (thank God!) I no longer have an excuse to not be thinking about and looking for a future job. And when I say job, I mean career. I graduate in December and I have yet to find any sort of direction in my life about what I want to do. Do I want to do this? Or that? Go here? Or there? The biggest issue is that I have no idea what I even want to do. I'm qualified to do social service stuff... and usually that requires a masters degree (ICK!) or a gazillion years of experience. I'm not even sure if I want to stay in that field. But if not, what do I do?? Anyone got a job they just want to hand to me and make this process a heck of a lot easier? No? Well, that's life. It's time to grow up. This is not what I thought it would be when I dreamed of being a "grown up."
Why is it that every time my computer (or internet) isn't working is when I have all of my great ideas for posts? Well, for those of you who read my blog, I am currently without internet so I will be posting a few soon. I never have enough time (or should even be on here) to sit and write posts when I'm not at home with my own computer. I just moved, so that is the cause of no internet, and currently I am just thankful I didn't end up in an insane asylum after a meltdown over it. So needless to say, I really hate moving and the thought of ever having to do it again really puts me in a state of panic! Thankfully that won't be for a while. So stay tuned, cuz there's more coming soon...
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