Saving our friends from a storm is easier than picking next years classes
For the most part, today was like any other. I woke up early and went over to my grandma’s to help at her garage sale. Afterwards, my family and friends had a big party to celebrate my brother’s upcoming wedding. But at 5:00 p.m., we all gathered around the television to watch the segment that Channel 6 News had done on me last week.
It seemed extremely odd to see myself on TV. Sort of surreal, I suppose. It also seemed a bit displaced, too, because this was a day of celebration for my brother. Of course my biggest cheerleader is mom, and she was having a grand time being proud of him and me.
The celebration was a lot of fun, and later on we went frisbee golfing. Let me just say that I was absolutely terrible at it, especially since I missed the first hole because a friend and I got lost on the trail trying to find our group! We caught up with them before the second hole and continued the game, but storm clouds were moving in and the sky was growing darker and darker. Soon a cold wind blew and we could feel the terrifying power around us that the sky held. A fierce storm was very near.
All of us took off running back to the cars, trying to get there before the rains soaked us through or the winds blew us away. A friend and I took the shortcut but everybody else went the long way. Of course we made it back to the cars before them and since we didn’t know where they were, we drove around trying to find them. We imagined them all huddling beneath a tree and getting hit by lightening…for sure our imaginations were working overtime!
But everything turned out good with everyone all safe and sound.
This got me to thinking. Sometimes seems upside down. Things that should be the hardest to do, like giving up our own safety to help our friends, is easier to do than picking out electives for the next school year! Sometimes we wonder if we’re doing the right thing, or whether we’re on the right road and if another way would be better. It’s pretty easy to second-guess ourselves, isn’t it?
Anyway, my life is changing all the time, too. And my guess is that yours is, too!
Hang in there, everyone, take care, study hard, have some fun and I’ll write more later.