If life was a song...
Dancing Through Life
Life goes on. It’s a cliche phrase that I hear a lot.
When I really think about it though, sometimes I find it hard to accept that life does, in fact, go on. I was sitting in the lower atrium at my residence from last year the oter day, and saw some people that I knew outside on the volleyball court. Then I went and visited with some people that I lived with and went to school with last year. Life goes on without me at school. I mean, obviously, but it’s still weird to go back somewhere and see completely new people.
Then I think about how I got home from this crazy year-long adventure and I’m supposed to make my life go on? I feel like I’ve changed in ways that only my friends from my site can understand, just because they were there with me when it was happening. My best friends live provices away and I’m just supposed to move on?
I heard a commercial yesterday that was talking about some schooling system. It’s tag line was: better report card, better university. Better university, better career. Better career, better life. Um…? Careers do help with making life easier, I agree fully on that. But shouldn’t life be more than just school, career, retire, die?
If my life is going to go on (which inevitably it has to-I can’t live in past memories) I want it to go on in a way that means something.
I didn’t learn much theology on my trip to Alaska. But, wading in a glacial stream dyed red with spawning salmon, and watcing a bald eagle pluck a sea bass out of the bay, I did fill a few words with meaning. Words like: joy, and awe.”
Adventure in South Africa #3: Shark Diving
We went out on a boat to see Great White Sharks up close! The boat had a cage attached to it that we went in. This is a video of one of the sharks from the boat. I didn’t actually get to see a shark once I was in the water, but I think it’s okay cause I still saw them from the boat! This was in Cape Town, South Africa.
