(As you know my blog entries always start with a recap of the week so here goes...)
(You see that boat in the corner, I'm feeling that small)
I have weathered the mighty storm this week, dear Reader and it feels good. But as they always say nothing last forever and now I face a bigger storm ahead of me. I know I should be enjoying my long weekend and celebrating my triumphant victory over my social presentation (my marks will say otherwise but I got through it) then I get hit with 6 major things to do. I have a physics lab, homework and an English essay due on Tuesday and a math midterm and midterm review due on Wednesday. What can I say, I guess our teachers wants us to succeed and beyond. On a very serious note, I am questioning if what I'm doing is worth it. Is it worth it me not being able to sleep properly (I get 6 or less a day), is it worth it not being able to spend my time with my family and myself, to validate my being academically? I guess I just have to live with decision I made for the time being.
Anyways on with the show..........
With all this ruckus and commotion happening all around me, I had a ray of sun in my week. It came as a form of a man named Milton Creagh. An accomplished man and a damn good orator. A man bigger than life and a light in a darkening world. Let me give you a little background of what I felt. Prior to him speaking to the whole school, my classmates were presenting their projects in social and we had just finished a back-to-back-to-back presentation about China. It took 45-50 minutes of our 1 hr and 30 min Social Class, it was grueling but I have to be an attentive listener (and I was). The whole school got called down to the gym and we all sat on the gym floor, which made me a bit grumpy. He started light with the topics, reminiscing his childhood and basketball days. So my icy and sassy attitude started to thaw and somehow I knew that he would be different from the multitude of speakers I had before. There was a lot of jokes and I laughed a lot which was great. He also compared his size with students which also garnered laughs from the assembly. I guess what stunned with me the most is his colloquialism and carefree attitude. There were subtle messages from the jokes but not too much and then he hit us (metaphorically speaking of course) with reality. And boy did he hit us good.......
The topic was alcoholism and its realities. Side note: It was absolutely striking how he manage to segue that from the jokes and laughter, just absolutely striking. He spoke now like parent and realist. Not withholding any information for us so that we could see what alcoholism can do to yourself and your relationships with other. He told us real-life experiences that one only watches on the television. He just spoke straight to my heart. A man who I barely know made me want to shed some tears. He explicitly conveyed facts and experiences on why alcohol and drugs are damaging for our society. He spoke of a meth-addicted father who let 3 men rape her daughter so that he could get some crack. Of a honor student who had his life ahead of him but was killed because of alcohol. Mr. Creagh formed an exclusive bond between him and the assembly that no other speaker had done before. It was thrilling and humbling to see this man speak and I hope he comes for a second time around.
‘Tis not the eating, nor ‘tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess.,
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