Here I am sitting in front of a computer updating this blog of mine. I am no longer in New Jersey. Actually, last night Grandma and I flew to the other side of this huge thing that is the United States of America. I will not talk about my flight because who really wants to hear about that right? Haha.
So, here I am, hands shivering as I write this entry. Wearing the same clothes as I wore when I flew in last night. Can not take a shower as my aunt's place is a real mess at the moment. Clothes were hanging in the shower so I am unable to take a nice longer warm shower to make myself feel better. But, no worries right?
There is one thing I must mention about the flight though. They showed this great movie, "Freedom Writers" I believe. It is about a teacher who gives this class a new outlook on life and helps them move past the issues of rich vs poor, racism and discrimination. The movie has helped reinforce an idea that has been with me ever since I started school at HEdCen. Sometime after I graduate, I would like to be a teacher.
This is really a big choice for me because I have always wanted to be rich. Not for selfish reasons, I do not want a big house or expensive car, I do not want the hot outfits or the fancy food. Money comes with power, power acts with influence. I want to make a dent in this world. To make something happen, something good. And after I die they do not even have to remember my name but what I did, will stand. What I did would have made a difference even if those who benefit from it do not know who made that change, made that difference happen.
I have always been happiest helping people even when I may not get anything significant in return. I may not get paid for what I do, not in monetary ways but knowing that I did something good, that is all the return I'll really need. People reading this may believe that I am naive. That I really believe all this crap about one person making the difference. About doing good always gets its worthy returns in the end. That what I say is impossible. Saying that something is impossible is failure at the very first step. Anything is possible. That's the way it has always been. It just takes a little bit of belief and a whole lot of work.
I would like to teach. There are several teachers over the past years, my high school teachers that have inspired me to become the person I am. They have been the greatest role models a guy like me can ask for. Everyone needs a hero. I've found mine in them.
After I graduate college I intend to get work experience, somewhere, somehow and then take over my grandfather's company, construction business. But somewhere in the great plan I have for my life I will fit in teaching. Maybe only part time, perhaps full time but as long as I can make my mark.
People say that changing the world is too big a task for an man to attempt. Then do not attempt at the whole world. Attempt at your world. You do not interact with the world as a whole you are born, live and eventually die in a small corner of the globe. I will start working in my little corner and if you'll join me in your little corner then if someone else joins us and then another and another, that's a lot of little corners. Then, a corner is not just a corner, its a whole chunk, its a whole town, a whole city, a state, a country, a continent, a lot of little corners equals the whole world. This is the power of you, this is the power of us, our power to make a difference in our own little way. This is what we must strive, hope and live by.
Be the difference.
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Tuesday, May 22, 2007
