In this weeks blog post I am showing you a place that shaped me into the person I am today. I didnt take this picture but this picture symbolzies how Brockton typically looks on a daily bases. Busy and cluttered.
My four years at Brockton High School wasn’t all good but it defiantly changed my view on a lot of things and gave me a new perspective on life. Starting off freshman year it was a rocky year for me. I would say actually it was an adjustment because of coming from the 8th grade (middle school) to high school which is a bigger setting and different dynamic. Of course being a “freshman” you try to fit in and act out but that only gets you so far. Being in high school shapes you into the person you want to become in the future going forth. As it came to senior year, I really had to sit and realize what I wanted to do and who I wanted to be. At that time I was I was working the guidance office at my school, doing community service programs that was held at the Boys & Girls Club to give back to my community and doing things like that made me think not only do I love my city, but I want to see change. With reading “Knowing Our Place” by Barbara Kingsolver I defiantly agree with her when she expresses how its ok to appreciate the little things. She says, “People need wild places. Whether or not we think we do, we do. We need to be able to taste grace and know once again that we desire it. We need to experience a landscape that is timeless, whose agenda moves at the pace of speciation and glaciers. To be surrounded by a singing, mating, howling commotion of other species, all of which love their lives as much as we do ours, and none of which could possibly care less about our economic status or our running day calendar. Wildness puts us in our place. It reminds us that our plans are small and somewhat absurd. It reminds us why, in those cases in which our plans might influence many future generations, we ought to choose carefully. Looking out on a clean plank of planet earth, we can get shaken right down to the bone by the bronze-eyed possibility of lives that are not our own”. She emphasizes how we should love everything around us and that we should be more appreciative. I also feel like I am a city dweller (coming from a city girl .. actually a town) because I feel like growing up outside made me appreciate the finer things in life instead of staying in.
Coming back to this months later (because I missed a comment)… WOW ! We are in a pandemic and talking about place. Everyone is confined to their home and no one feels safe leaving their house. Empashis on appreciation. People are not appreciating outdoors and washing their hands more than ever. Loved ones are being cherished and people have finally been taking precautions. Since corona, the world is starting to heal itself once again. The damage we have done to this earth is finally being healed naturally. No matter how much power we think we have in the world, mother nature had ruled again! Due to corona we have been isolated in our homes and the planet is doing what is best for HER! GO GIRL! The wild wins again! We now can feel how stupid the things we once worried about are. Small bumps in our lives are dismissed because now there are bigger things to worry about. Food, water, shelter, and safety are now the main focus; along with loved ones !