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| I’ve neglected to write as often as I liked this past year; I suppose the reason was just because there wasn’t much to write about. My days pass by rather uneventfully now. The cycle of sleep-eat-work-repeat is rather dull and monotonous, but at the same time relatively drama free and well… predictable. Maybe that’s what I want in life right now—a sense of consistency. Predictability is some how bad, yet dependability and reliability is seen as good; I don’t really see a difference. Surprises aren’t really what I need. The occasional change in routine is nice but I’m also okay with doing what I’m good at over and over again. Practice makes perfect, right?
As for this past year, 2010 wasn’t bad to me. As all of my horoscopes and other predictions have prophesized this past year was in all respects pretty decent, not great, not bad, but decent. I can live with decent. There were ups and downs, but in all honesty I can’t really remember in any great detail the low points. They happened, I got over them, life goes on. Life was decent. There weren’t any major triumphs in 2010 nor were there significant disappointments. I suppose living and learning is a triumph in itself. I met some goals others were put aside for another year and of many lessons were lived and learned. All in all I would not mind another year like 2010.
2011 brings an infinite number of new possibilities. There are, new goals to achieve, new people to meet, new challenges to overcome. All these new things will come with opportunities for both good and bad. They make up the lessons that make us who we are. I guess there is really no telling what 2011 could possibly bring, but I look forward to finding out. | | |
| Now that camp has ended. I am relieved yet there is a lingering feeling of emptiness. I half expect my alarm to go off at 7:00am and having to endure the sound of younger campers loudly parading through the halls. “Jihe” is no longer a part of my daily vocabulary nor is breakfast/lunch/dinner surprise. All in all, camp this year was a remarkable experience. I had fun and will definitely return next summer assuming my schedule permits.
Most importantly the campers had fun. Camp is always filled with its ups and downs. But ultimately no matter if you’re an advisor, counselor, ac, or staff, the most significant reason for ever coming to camp is to see the results of your labor. That you have in fact influenced someone else’s summer in a positive way. An inspiration that has longer lasting impacts then what can be witnessed in those few short days. It takes a certain passion to do this year after year. But each time I doubt my motives for returning I remind myself that the benefits will soon be reaped in the form of happy campers.
Five years ago I thought my tenure at camp had ended. After such a long absence being able to return as an advisor was an eye opening experience, tantamount to teaching a crash course in organizational management 101. It was nevertheless an opportunity. It was a chance to hopefully give back to something that had been a very important part of my childhood summers. | | |
| People think that if you love somebody hard enough, then everything is just gonna work out. People are wrong. | | |
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The Hope entry has gotten more random hits then anything else on my blog. I do find it slightly consoling to know that people all around have the same tribulations with this concept of hope. I apologize, if the post didn’t provide many answers. For those looking for solutions to their “hope” dilemmas the only advice I can give is to take life as it is. This overly simplistic realist approach seems to have at least somewhat reassured me these last few years. Life is what it is. It’s truly up to us to make what we want of it. You don’t always have to make lemonade out of lemons, but just know lemonade is an option.
We often spend lifetimes wanting and craving things that are unattainable or beyond the realm of immediate possibilities. If only we can accept this as truth, then maybe we’d better be able to understand hope. Life is what it is. Hope is what it is. Hope is neither bad nor necessarily good, it is an ambition that is often on the precipice of reaching reality, and whether or not this hope will ever be actualized is beyond us. I guess the lesson is keep hope but don’t obsess in hope. Our lives should not revolve around hope but rather hope should revolve around our lives. Does that make any sense at all? | | |
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