Dear Parents

Being a parent is hard, I know it's hard, but it is oh so important. Children are the future of the nation, so raising one is quite an important task. You can't be strict, because then your children will eventually fly free-er than an eagle, and you will lose the grip you once had on them. You can't be too lenient, because then they might fall into trouble that they might not be able to get out of. So what is the perfect balance of strictness and lenience? Is there even a perfect balance? Well let me tell you, there's not one perfect way to raise a child, each one is different and should therefore should be raised differently. I don't know how you did it ma, but you did one hell of job raising 11 kids. I didn't understand it at the time, but now I completely understand why you'd have different levels of strictness for each one of us. I would get so mad at some of the things you would do, but I know that it was all done for a reason, and with love. Respect to all parents out there, because its a rough job.

Frankl-y Speaking

When I started my new job, my mentor gave me a poster that said "ATTITUDE IS EVERYTHING" in big, bold, red letters. She gave it to me so that I would walk into my new job with confidence that I would complete any task assigned to me and overcome any obstacle that I would face in my time there. In reading Man's Search for Meaning, I felt that Frankl was expressing exactly what my mentor expressed to me when I began my new job, but Frankl did so in a much broader manner. What I take from this book is the realization that we have full control of the situations we face in our lives. We can't control what happens to us, but we can definitely control how we are affected by it. We can either have it make us, or break us.