Josh Waitzkin

As I sat and watched one of my favorite movies, the thought of reflection became more apparent. In order to grow people need to do things for themselves. For years I have done things out of spite. Ugh, is that tiring. While watching today, I started to realize what it was that I needed to really start working on. People give and take from one another everyday. It is what we take that is more important than what we give. I know it sounds selfish, but let me explain. By taking, we are listening, reasoning and while maybe not agreeing with also respecting others opinions, ideas, and actions. It is how we take what we observe and experience from others that starts to shape us. We are all little reflections of people we have met. The reflection is something that we want others to take from us. Paying it forward in a way. Our reflection is determined by our open mindedness as well as our personalities. The hardest part of this is recognizing our reflection and changing what we don't like about it. That part can be quite humbling!! Weird that I can come up with something like that while catching the end of a movie and giving the hammer a bottle for a nap he would refuse to take!!! Thanks again~~ while I have you though, my gripe...how does school start and a bookstore not have a book. Secondly, how do they justify charging what they do for books. Online I found a book 70 dollars cheaper, seriously, and we worry about people gas gouging. Hello!!! I have figured out why students are broke. It is not credit cards, binge drinking, or being wasteful. It is money wasted on a new edition, which should really read, "edited edition." Because we all know they just fixed a typo!!!!