Seananigans

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I can only teach the life experiences of things I have done and learned. Likewise, my parents could only teach me what they knew. Reading through this book called Living, Loving, & Learning has pointed out this important idea to me.

Think about it.. many kids complain about how they had it bad with their parents. And maybe rightfully so. Maybe their parents were verbally (or physically) abusive, or quick tempered, didn't provide as much as other kids parents. Well, this is unfortunate indeed, but if you stand back and look at it, their parents could only teach what they themselves knew. In almost all the cases, your parents act the way the do because of their parents or peers who influenced them. Sure there is extenuating circumstances. I think anyone can raise their hands and say, "Wait a sec, I know kids who were raised with great parents, who ended up going totally haywire" or the opposite, bad parents but the kids ended up persevering through. There are going to be many examples of this.

But the point is, I can only teach others what I know. YOU can only teach others what YOU know. Example is the only true teacher. You can teach from a worksheet or book about morals, but if your life doesn't back up what you say, then no one will really listen.

You can't teach what you do not know. Therefor, I can not teach about God, if I do not know Him and about him. I can not teach you about love, if I don't love myself. Now I could know about the IDEAS of love and God, and they might sound great on paper. I could give you the definition of love, but if that is all I know, I can never teach you about love.

I central theme to this book, is the idea of BECOMING. He says, the best things we can do is to BECOME the most wonderful, understanding, compassionate, caring, discipled person we can be, SO THAT we can share it with others. Because we can only teach what we know, words are never enough. I can not give what I do not have. I can not give you love if I do not have love myself. So we have to focus on getting (becoming) as selfish as that might sound, but think about it. See if it makes sense.

If you disagree then say why you disagree!@

In case you cared, this is what I have been up to this summer:

I have been working at Wonder World as a tour guide. This has been good experience learning how to get in front of groups of people, and public speaking (for like 3 hours every day-that will get you comfortable real quick). I get paid $4.50 / hr + $3.75 commision per tour + tips. Not to shabby.. I will not be working there after August 13th - I have to get a job probably as a waiter during this upcoming semester.

I've been doing a good ammount of reading (although not as much as I had intended to). Read 'Way of the Peaceful Warrior' which was great, "Living, Loving, and Learning' (which im not quite through) but quite possibly one of the best books i've read, 'The Road Less Traveled', and some 'Jonathan Edwards'. Quite honestly, work took up more time than I thought, but in a good way.

I've spent a good ammount of time hanging out with the likes of Coal Beirswhalehiliaramalamdingdong, Matt Luna, Kyle English, Austin Dykes, Michael Rice, my roommates, Sandy, Lindsay, and yes Andrew Schwiklerhawkaloogihippo. We recently floated the SAN MARCOS RIVER, which was sa-weet.

Other than that, trying to figure out the direction I want my life to go on. So if you know a good direction to go, please, please give me directions :)

I am not taking school this next semester, so I WILL be working, librariazing (aka reading), and hopefully hanging out with cool people... alot.

That is NOT all she wrote folks. But that is all I am going to write for now.

Sean