Sometime into my first or second year of college, I got the distinct and lasting impression that, while I was working on improving my life through education, I was really just jumping the hurdles that lay before me until I finally hit the point, where I could say that I had accomplished my large goal or had "made it" as many people say. I felt like I just had to finish school and that then, in a sense, I would be done with the busy work and could move on to real life. Many people around me seemed to have the same feeling. Unfortunately, when I graduated, I felt like I still hadn't arrived and that there were still more hurdles to jump before… Read More

I just started watching The Bucket List. I'm about 20 minutes in, and it seems good so far. I mean, how could it not be with Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson? But, watching Nicholson's character vomit after receiving his first chemo treatment did make me wonder if my relatives and friends – that have gone through chemo and other such things – have felt the same and were also alone in dealing with it. My thought when I saw Nicholson acting out this scene was something to the effect of, "Be very, very thankful that your parents set a good example of eating healthy and being active and that… Read More