To know one life has breathed easier because you have lived. That is to have succeeded. - RW Emerson

Monday, January 11, 2010

Change

If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it. ~Mary Engelbreit

This is a quote that reminds me that if I disagree with something, if I believe something is not right, then I have stop, go back to it and try to change it. Yet, I have encountered many things that I have tried my best to change, but have been highly unsuccessful. For example, studying plants. I do not find plants interesting, I do not find that the study of them is particularly beneficial to my life, and there is really nothing that I can do that will likely change this. Except, I have discovered that if I think about them differently, if I look at them for the true miracle that God created, then they suddenly become beautiful. They still are not interesting, nor does the study of them pertain much to my life, but I can appreciate them and I am beginning to love them to.


Today, I noticed that a particular activity that was intended to foster school spirit, made me quite upset. It was absolutely hilarious, but it made me mildly upset. Ben, the person who always runs this particular type of school spirit event only ever picks the same people to do it, only every grade 12's, and only ever day students. At first, I was mad at Ben, but then I realized that I wasn't upset with him, I just disagreed with what he was doing. So I decided to bring up in Prefect Council, do something about it instead of fester about it, and hopefully next Monday, the event will be inclusive rather than exclusive. If it is still the same, then I will just have to keep trying until I exhaust every opportunity to change it.



Change what you can, accept what you cannot, but always be the change.


-Kaylynn

Monday, January 4, 2010

6 months

In 6 months I graduate, move on from uniforms and away from the place that I have come to call home for the past three years. Going to SMUS, to boarding school, was the best gift my parents could have ever given me, and I only have 6 months of it left. Everybody wants to graduate, dream about it as a child, and my day seems to be arriving quickly. When I was little I couldn't wait to be in grade 12, to be one of the "big kids" like my brothers, and now I am.

I guess I'm not really done though...I want to be a doctor, so I have 8 years of school left, and two more graduations after this one. Over the next few months, which are going to fly by faster than I can flip the pages of a calender, all I can really do is make the most of my days as a SMUdent: study hard, reflect, train, experience and most importantly, laugh.

"Graduation is only a concept. In real life every day you graduate. Graduation is a process that goes on until the last day of your life. If you can grasp that, you'll make a difference." ~Arie Pencovici

peace like a river,
kaylynn