Bus 110 Week 2 Reflection

This week we were asked to watch several videos and read some information about leading a life of meaning. This is an interesting concept to me. Before this week I had thought that living with meaning meant that you had lived a life in service to a greater cause. To have made a large impact on the world around you. I always felt that I was doing this by the very nature of my chosen career. I have worked in security for most of my life. I always said that I was making the world safer just via the fact that I was there doing my job. 

 

After watching the video about Randy Pausch's last lecture and the reading for this week it could mean something different than what I thought it did. I could live a meaningful life by constantly pushing up to and through the barriers that I found on my path. I did not have to focus on making one large impact. I could make several smaller ones and accomplish the same thing. Like Pausch I could reach for my dreams and continue to make small changes to the world around me through my efforts and will to succeed. I could show my family that if you want it and work hard at it you will get. You just must push past the "brick walls” that are there to stop the other people. 

 

There will always be something that tries to block your path. It is incumbent upon you to find a way to past it and move on to the next thing that you want to accomplish in your life. When we were kids’ people all around us told us that dreams could come true. What they did not tell us is that we hard to put the effort into them to ensure that they came to fruition. Dreaming is a very important part of life, not just for children but for adults as well. It is our dreams that give us the will to continue to push through the morass that we find ourselves getting stuck in. 

 

Dreams give us the fuel that we need to keep life on the tracks we set when we first began to look into our future and make plans for our lives. Our dreams should always be on our minds. The ever-constant friend and encouragement that we as people need to continue down our roads.