Sunday, August 19, 2012

Back Home at Last!!!!


*Sigh of Relief* Ah. It feels so great to be back home in Berea. I thought this day would never come and now HERE IT IS!!!! *Breathe In* *Breathe Out* Now I am calm. Now I can write about how excited I am without GETting TO HaPpY! Who am I kidding, I couldn’t do that!!! :)

Anyway, so I am now home in Berea about to start my second year at the college and so many new things are going on.
  1. New Year.
  2. New Friendships.
  3. New Goals.
  4. NEW ME!!!
So now let’s understand these four things before I start breaking out in song. :D

Indeed, it is a new year for me at Berea College. I am excited for what is to come as I reside in a different dorm, have a different job, and a great selection of classes that I think I will enjoy. In fact, I cannot wait to get into my religion course. Of course you can bet that I will have plenty to talk about this course as it seems that we will be understanding Christian love and I will be more than glad to share my thoughts about Christian love because so many people have seen nothing but hatred from people claiming to be Christians. If you are a Christian, do you not remember what the greatest Commandments were? Simply put, Love God. Love People. And that is what I want to do…but I am getting ahead of myself. 

Also this year, I have a different job. Wanna know the title? Of course you do! I am an Assistant Diversity Peer Education Training Workshop Coordinator. Yes, a long title, but a great one at that because I get to help people understand diversity and what it means to be different. But I thought we are all different? In fact, we all are different because we have different beliefs, morals, opinions, etc. etc. Hold Up! Wait a Minute! Put a Little Love In It! One thing that we all have in common is the fact that we all have the same color of blood running through our veins-BLUE! (I will wait to make Sports jokes in a later edition.) But seriously, we have the same color of blood running through our veins and we also have the common molecular make-up of Deoxyribonucleic acid. And when one dies, we will eventually decompose to ashes so we are all different people, yet we all are the same. The college that I attend says it best, “God has made of one blood all peoples of the Earth.”

Secondly, I have already made wonderful new friendships this summer but I know that I will make plenty more this school year. As I grow closer to understanding me as a person, I will grow in friendships. I love talking to people and caring for them. However, ultimately my goal for any friendship is to just be grateful for the friends that I am hanging out with in the now and not worrying about whom I want to hang out or the bad relationships that have ended in the past because most friendships come and go in this time of my life so I just want to be grateful for the many friendships that I will gain AND lose this school year.

Speaking of Goals:

I have a goal of updating this blog twice a week; hopefully on Wednesday and Sundays.
Another goal is get more involved in activities around campus including but not limiting to the great Black Music Ensemble, Berea Ambassadors, Berea Buddies, and hopefully take one quarter credit class of piano.

Another goal of mine is to get something started for college students nightly at the church that I attend. I agree with the thought of “Build and they will come.” Because college students get bored with not having nothing to do (or at least I do) and I want to be able to see programs for all interests of college students beliefs in God. But this is my goal and hopefully will come to pass in the near future.

A final goal that I will disclose to you, reader, is the fact of continuing with a bible study that me and group of friends had going last semester and I hope and pray for it to come to pass.
NEW ME!

Okay, so last year I was accused of changing in a bad way. I don’t think I was but this year, I am going to change; because we all should be in a progressive line of changing ourselves for the better. I will say this, if you think you are the perfect place of being a great …..I will not complete that sentence because NO ONE IS PERFECT and they are some things that you can change about you.

In fact one thing that I want to change is how opinionated I am because that does get me into trouble. Thank God for the greatest right of free speech! But seriously, I know that I can be opinionated about some things but my Momma taught me to stand up for what I believe in and I will NOT change that.

I also want to change the fact of being selfish and be selfless. I want to serve and care for people more starting with my family, close friends, and loved ones. I want them to be happy for this life that they have because there is always someone else who is hurting worse. I want to be selfless because really, I have everything I need right now and I am sure I have more than enough. I want to make people smile. I want people to enjoy this life they have because it is so grateful and such an awesome gift to have.

I just watched Evan Almighty and was reminded of A.R.K. Acts of Random Kindness. I plan on doing this to be selfless. My challenge to you is that you too brighten someone else’s life and participate by working on the ARK. :D

I am excited for what’s to come, I really am. New year + new friendships + new goals + new me = NEW MADNESS!!!!!!

Enjoy this lovely weather. Be kind to one another. And enjoy the MaDnEsS of life!
~Matthew


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