Confessions of a happy person

Family (for their safety and happiness) Strength (to have faith that it'll be alright) Patience (for myself and the journey) Peace (to live without judgement, anger, or fear) I pray for Family, Strength, Patience, Peace... Family, Strength, Patience, Peace... Family, Strength, Patience, Peace... Family, Strength, Patience, Peace... Family, Strength, Patience, Peace....

Definitely not posting as much anymore but still keeping up with the bi-weekly posts. Thanks for reading! -------------------------------------------- Back in high school, we had to read the ancient Greek play Oedipus. The story was about this guy Oedipus who kills his father and marries his mother without knowing that they were his parents. The reason he didn't know was because when he was still a baby, it was prophesied that this would happen, so the father trying to run away from this destiny left the baby on a mountainside to die. Of course, some couple finds him and raises him and then he grows up to do all those things.  Whenever I hear stories like this, I'm always left thinking... well what would've happened if the father didn't believe in the prophesy and raised his own son? Would Oedipus still have killed his father? Or did the father basically commit himself to his fate the minute he tried to kill his baby?  I don't think any of us believe ...

Maybe it's just me but it seems we have something controversial going on every other week. Whether it's a racist joke at the Oscar's, another white cop shooting a black kid, or Donald Trump running for President... tensions are running high and it seems like everywhere you look people are really angry on either side.  As usual, I've been thinking a lot about everything that's going on and I'm always hesitant to have an opinion... But it doesn't feel right not to say anything either.  And then I was thinking about what I had been through this past year and started thinking that perhaps our country is going through a growing pain much like the one I went through. Maybe I'm just being optimistic, but to me, Trump running for president just shows how desperate and how hard certain groups are fighting for the way America "used to be". Because they know that it's dying.  Metaphorically speaking... it's like how forest fires are ...

A year ago, I got involved in this organization at UC Irvine, CampMed. I received an email that said they were looking for counselors for this camp who's mission was to inspire high school students from lower socioeconomic areas to pursue higher education and careers in the medical field. I'd been involved in a community service org in college so I thought it would be fun plus I felt guilty that I hadn't done any community service in years. They accepted me and next thing I know, I'm at the first meeting with about 60 loud and cheering undergrads having flashbacks to my own college days and thinking, "I'm too old for this" and "what did I just get myself into." It turned out to be a really great experience and reminded me of why I need to make the time to give back.  I know I'm still relatively young, but there's something about working with young people. They have this optimism and energy that I had somehow lost in the fiv...