Week 3 Reading-Chapter 7 ... It Is Life

It is great to have goals and dreams. Sometimes, that is how we get places or find new destinations in life. However, in life, we can't focus of what have been done. Instead, we need to focus on where we can go from here. One major event in recent news is the BP Oil spill in the gulf. It was a couple of weeks ago now, but there were several different people doing interviews and they had interesting takes on the oil spill. One person being interviewed was stuck on the phrase "What the government should have done is ...." and "What they should be doing ...". Another person interviewed was over what the government should or should not do. That individual went on to discuss how he gets up every morning and does what he can to clean up the beach, because it is his beach, figuratively. It is amazing the difference in those two interviews. One person is completely focused on what should be done and the other is focused on doing it. Whether you whine and complain about how things should be done or not, it still needs to get done and it will get done a lot quicker if you just do it.

This book is very intriguing to me because it describes a lot of my personality and my brother questions me about my personality all the time. In general, I don't worry over much and I handle everything pretty calm (at least on the outside.) Last week, I was babysitting my 4 month old cousin. I had just changed her diaper and when I picked her up off the changing table, she spit up ALL over me. I put her back on the changing table and went ahead and changed her clothes. I called my mom and left her a voicemail asking her to bring me clothes.When my mom brought me clothes, she explained that everyone at her work, thought the voicemail was priceless because I didn't have any emotion other than a little bit of laughter. It was just plain and simple. They were all amazed at how I handled it. I didn't see why or how I should have reacted according to any one else. I mean, there wasn't anything I could do to change the situation. She spit up and I needed clean clothes. Complaining about it while I was waiting for my clothes wasn't going to change the fact that I was still in dirty clothes. It wasn't a preventable situation. All I could do about it was laugh and provide a few people a good dose of laughter for their day.