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Page 2: Create life of Meaning.

I recently watched Randy Pausch's Last Lecture ( https://youtu.be/yVIvHKTNsqg ). Man! Where do I begin? There is only one word that I can use to describe it, inspiring. I was amazed at his genuine love for life. Cancer is the most feared word in every language, and even though he got hit with those dreadful words, he was still able to hold his head up high. Living his life to the fullest, and even cracking some jokes along the way. While watching the video there were two things that really stood out and resonated with me. The first thing was the impressive words that Jon Snoddy passed down to Randy, "wait long enough and people will surprise and impress you". As human beings, I think it is part of our nature to quickly jump to conclusions, and get frustrated or angry with other people when they do the opposite of what we want them to do. If you feel like you do not act this way, try having children. I have noticed this in my own life with my children. As a parent you cons...

Chapter one: The first post (I guess I'm a blogger now)

Every great story ever told began with the first word. In this case the word was "every", which is great because I will be posting in my blog "every" week. When I first read that I should do a blog post reflecting on the work we did for the week a lot of things went through my mind. I am not a social media guru, I mean, I don't even have Facebook and I have never done a blog post before, so its only natural that the first thing that went through my mind was "how am I going to do that!". I am not someone who usually runs away from my problems, I like to face them head on and come up with manageable steps to solve them. I went back to my initial question of "how am I going to do this?" and really sat with the question. I felt out of sync with the assignment, and felt uneasy because its something new to me. Because this was new to me, I really wanted to feel comfortable with what I was about to do. However, I couldn't find that comfort. In t...