I've been thinking lately and i have mutured a good bit with the help of ALL. i've come to relize some people can't accept a person for who they are no matter on how many stides they've made to make themselves acceptable to groups that really shouldn't have been worried about in the first place. People can't see what you've become but only remember the past and can't see the present and bare to look towards the future. Everyone is guilty of ignorence but can't admit it and i'll be the first to say that i can be like that at times but when it comes to the point that i have to change myself to be accepted by someone who can't see the real person that they are and has to judge them for what they think should be acceptable to them.
Im not saying im perfect because im nowheres to being GOD, but i've decided to learn something from everyone i've meet or seen. im level headed enought to learn from everyone to help mold the personality that i have gained today. In my short career in EMS and my high intrest in local and national news i can say im one lucky dude as of right now. Everyday im brought into tragies of other peoples lives and get a first hand look at the real world and helps me move out of the bubble i secure myself in and teaches me that my life can have some low points but there is always someone that has it worse and they still seem to manage to see the positive spectrum at the end of the tunnel. Everyday i turn on the news or read the local paper and i hear how bad our economy has become with no hand in sight to help other get pulled out of a hole that seems to get deeper as time progress. There are individuals that lose their lives everyday over pity things that could have been worked over with just a little communication before the extreme measures had to set in. There are times when i ask myself how can i be so lucky to have grown up in a community that has become home of one of the stongest economies in the greatest country in the world, or a region like the south where its been known for it racial profiling but also known for its charm and hospitality, or in a country where there many disagreement and disaster but can pull togeather after events like 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina and team up like champions to cook meals for the needy or donate blood for the injuried.
Sometimes the path laid before is not the path i would have like to have taken but is smoother than the path of anothers. Im not a preacher, im not a president, or a movie star, but i am a 20 year old who's an EMT who is also a little league coach and has the chance to be a positive role model everyday. Its not a job, its a journey and if i died today i would want to be remembered for the fair treatment and compassion i've showed others and not for the way i could've belittled and downgraded others. Ive been blessed with friends, family, people who dislike me for whatever reason, people i don't know, and patients. Everyone has played a role in who i am today and i thank you all for being you.
