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We need mentors. I don’t care if you’re eight years old, 18 years old, or 58 years old. We all need people whom we can look at and say, “I admire them and the way they live their lives. I look up to them, because I know they are living their lives with a purpose and with truth.”
A mentor can be someone alive or dead, they can be someone famous, or they can be your best friend. But you have to be able to recognize something in them that you genuinely know is good and true.
Martin Luther King Jr. has always been one of my mentors for the simple fact that he gave his life to serve others. He sacrificed a great deal–ultimately his life–because he believed in a cause, and it was clear that his life served a greater purpose than simply entertaining himself or accumulating wealth.
The fact of that matter is, we need more positive heroes who not only remind us of what it means to live a noble life but who also MOTIVATE US TO BECOME BETTER. Some people I look up to and admire are below:
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Jesus Christ
- Buddha (Siddhartha)
- Bill Gates
- Rosa Parks
- Bono
- Albert Einstein
- Abraham Lincoln
- Nicholas Glab
- Nelson Mandela
- And many more…
My favorite videos to produce are ones where students get to display their talents and artistic abilities. Maybe that’s why I had so much fun making CAG Idol. It focuses on the musical gifts of students from my school and demonstrates how freakin’ good some of them are. Children rock! Literally.
Oh, and congratulations to the first ever CAG Idol, Javier B!!!!
He escrito sobre la perspectiva en el pasado. Pero estoy perdiendo perspectiva. ¿Por que? ¿Cómo? Es fácil. Cada día me despierto y tengo un apartamento muy bonito. Vivo en un apartamento con dos niveles, una buena vista, y en un lugar muy seguro. Despues, voy a mi colegio que es magnifico. Los estudiantes son los mejores en Guatemala, el campus está manteniendo perfectamente, y hay muchas personas que puede ayudarme y los estudiantes.
Y, cuando estoy en cualquier lugar, la gente me da respeta y las personas son amables porque yo tengo piel blanco, ojos claros, y pelo rubio.
Entonces estoy perdiendo perspectiva un poco. Pero, hoy, tengo mi pura perspectiva otra vez.
¿Por que? Porque ví una película se llama Recylced Life. La película es sobre la pobreza de Guatemala. Mas specificamente, la película muestra imagines de la personas que viven en el basurero. La gente tiene el nombre de Guajeros porque ellos recogen la basura y toma la basura a sus casas o ellos venden la basura.
Mi perspectiva se cambia por la mejor, porque yo estoy suerte. Yo estoy en una posición muy raro y necesito estar feliz que tengo todas las cosas yo necesito.
Ahora, recuerdo porque estoy aquí!
Yesterday, August 2nd, 2007, was my mom’s birthday. She is now 57 and I can guarantee that when she was my age she never envisioned her life turning out like this. Unable to walk, unable to feed herself, unable to live in her own home. The reality though, is that none of us foresee this for ourselves. But suffering happens, it’s natural in a variety of ways, and it’s how we deal with this suffering that eventually makes us who we are.
For my mom’s birthday, I have made her a video. It’s not much, but I hope it captures the moment in some small way.
We are human and it’s human nature to learn from each other. The problem though, is that we don’t always learn the most beneficial lessons, and we certainly don’t always teach what should truly be taught.
One thing I think we should all learn more about is death. Not so much the death of a soldier, or 200 people dying from a catastrophic airplane crash, but the slow, insidious death that most of us are going to succumb to. And this is why I’m drawn to Morrie Schwartz so much. He devoted his death and life to teaching others. He was, as he said he wanted to be, “A teacher to the last.”
And it’s so seldom that we see, or spend time with elderly people anymore. You rarely see them in movies or on TV or in advertisements. So where do we get our lessons about life? We get them from young, ignorant people who are still as confused as we are. Who still think that the most important thing in life is how attractive we are, or aren’t. We learn to be selfish rather than giving, we learn to fight rather than to swallow our pride and forgive, we learn that death is something that won’t happen for a long, long time rather than something that could realistically take place any minute now.
Worst of all, we learn to be apathetic towards others rather than taking the time to care about them.
Through listening to Morrie Schwartz though, and reading Tuesdays with Morrie, I have learned valuable life lessons that have stayed with me, and will continue to stay with me until my own death. It’s true you know, “Once you find your way to such teachers, you’ll always find your back. Sometimes it’s only in your head, sometimes it’s right along side their beds.”
It’s 12:14 a.m. and in three hours I’ll be flying to Boston, New York, and Washington DC for a week with my brother. In a perfect world I would be sleeping right now so that I could be well-rested for the trip. Since the world is not perfect, and neither am I, I cannot sleep so I’m writing in here.
My brother, Nick, and I are going to the Live Earth Concert in New York on 7/7/07. You can watch it on ABC on Saturday, or just look at the website. The concert is designed to promote awareness about global warming and the list of musicians who will play is incredible.
Without the earth, there is no music…among other things. On the positive side, no more earth = no more George Bush.
Art can be found everywhere…even on YouTube.
If you watch this entire video, it will inspire you. One father. One disabled son. And one extraordinary story. I can’t imagine how much different our world would be if the news focused more on stories such as this, rather than the negativity and ridiculous drama it focuses on now.
YOU ARE WHAT YOU CHOOSE TO PAY ATTENTION TO.
