Interesting day
11:58 PM
Monday:
So yeah I didn't run today as it is my day off. The count down to the Marathon is 4 days and a couple of hours.
I did want to talk about something else that happened today that was very inspirational. While many students in Berklee and at many other schools in Boston are doing midterm exams, one of my teachers did something different. We had a guest speaker which is nice any time but especially nice during midterms. It was even better because he was very inspirational. I eat inspirational talks like this up like candy.
I should first mention that the class I am talking about is my Exceptional Children class and as you might expect we talk about special education children and all of the "special" diseased and "disabilities." This guest speaker came and he told us of his personal experience of growing up with a disability. He has a rare degenerative eye disease, is now legally blind and told us of the hardships he has faced in his life. At first, you'd expect that he has been held back by his disability but achieved many great things. He didn't finish his high school degree because everyone told him he wouldn't amount to anything. But, he threw off a vibe I haven't gotten from many people. He was very open to describing his hardships and he had this zest for life that you could easily catch when you walked in the room.
People do treat people with disabilities differently because people are ignorant and only see the disability and not the person. Eventually I would like to help inform people of people with disabilities because we can learn so much from them. They process the world in a different way and are not disabled by it but come up with different ways to do the same thing we do. Just another perspective.
It is like running a marathon. It's a huge challenge to tackle but people should look at the pain one might endure differently. By looking at the pain in a different way they will enjoy the benefits of running that distance, the discipline and exploring the world much more indepth than if they just stayed home on a couch watching tv.
I just want to say I feel inspired to be me.
So yeah I didn't run today as it is my day off. The count down to the Marathon is 4 days and a couple of hours.
I did want to talk about something else that happened today that was very inspirational. While many students in Berklee and at many other schools in Boston are doing midterm exams, one of my teachers did something different. We had a guest speaker which is nice any time but especially nice during midterms. It was even better because he was very inspirational. I eat inspirational talks like this up like candy.
I should first mention that the class I am talking about is my Exceptional Children class and as you might expect we talk about special education children and all of the "special" diseased and "disabilities." This guest speaker came and he told us of his personal experience of growing up with a disability. He has a rare degenerative eye disease, is now legally blind and told us of the hardships he has faced in his life. At first, you'd expect that he has been held back by his disability but achieved many great things. He didn't finish his high school degree because everyone told him he wouldn't amount to anything. But, he threw off a vibe I haven't gotten from many people. He was very open to describing his hardships and he had this zest for life that you could easily catch when you walked in the room.
People do treat people with disabilities differently because people are ignorant and only see the disability and not the person. Eventually I would like to help inform people of people with disabilities because we can learn so much from them. They process the world in a different way and are not disabled by it but come up with different ways to do the same thing we do. Just another perspective.
It is like running a marathon. It's a huge challenge to tackle but people should look at the pain one might endure differently. By looking at the pain in a different way they will enjoy the benefits of running that distance, the discipline and exploring the world much more indepth than if they just stayed home on a couch watching tv.
I just want to say I feel inspired to be me.
