"While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about."
- Angela Schwindt
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Thursday, January 10, 2008
What do you say to taking chances?
"Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you."- Richard Bach
Another year has gone by. 2007 was a pretty good year. A year of big leaps and changes, and taking chances. I have been drawn into a whole different world with JVC and post-college life. I am discovering new things about myself and about human relationships every day. I am learning about what I like to do... and what I don't like to do. I am seeing a lot of compassion in a lot of strangers and figuring out how strangers can become friends, and even how important "strangers" can be in our lives.
I have formed a relationships with my "regular" bus driver, with adult students in my morning classes, and the children in the after school program. Sometimes people push my buttons and I don't know how to react. Sometimes I feel like maybe I'm getting too close, like maybe I should keep my distance. And sometimes I can really see the impact that simply taking the time to listen to others can really give them hope and joy. Relationships are complicated, no matter what kind of relationship they are... complicated, heartbreaking, and wonderful all at the same time.
Each moment we have we can choose how we respond to the people in our lives, and the situations that arise. The quote at the beginning of my rambling appeared in my email inbox at such an appropriate time, as I struggle with the balance between closeness and distance. How you can be close to someone in location, but yet so distant, and then again so distant in location from a person, and so close to them. Really it boggles my mind. It's one of those things I guess, one of life's great mysteries.
Another year has gone by. 2007 was a pretty good year. A year of big leaps and changes, and taking chances. I have been drawn into a whole different world with JVC and post-college life. I am discovering new things about myself and about human relationships every day. I am learning about what I like to do... and what I don't like to do. I am seeing a lot of compassion in a lot of strangers and figuring out how strangers can become friends, and even how important "strangers" can be in our lives.
I have formed a relationships with my "regular" bus driver, with adult students in my morning classes, and the children in the after school program. Sometimes people push my buttons and I don't know how to react. Sometimes I feel like maybe I'm getting too close, like maybe I should keep my distance. And sometimes I can really see the impact that simply taking the time to listen to others can really give them hope and joy. Relationships are complicated, no matter what kind of relationship they are... complicated, heartbreaking, and wonderful all at the same time.
Each moment we have we can choose how we respond to the people in our lives, and the situations that arise. The quote at the beginning of my rambling appeared in my email inbox at such an appropriate time, as I struggle with the balance between closeness and distance. How you can be close to someone in location, but yet so distant, and then again so distant in location from a person, and so close to them. Really it boggles my mind. It's one of those things I guess, one of life's great mysteries.
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