What is this even about?

I've always kind of wanted to start a blog, but I never have quite gotten around to it. I guess I never really found a good enough reason. I did have one of those Xanga pages back in middle school, but I don't even know how to access it now and it's kind of a phenomena that died with the times. Anyway, when my Journalism 101 class received an assignment to start and keep a blog, at first I didn't have the slightest clue what to choose as a theme. The instructions said to relate the posts to our "dream job," and that was my first issue with the assignment. I've never really had a "dream job." In fact, I'm a sophomore in college who still does not know what to do with her life. I've only just recently chosen a major, and I'm not even 100% sure about it. I think eventually that I would like to become a middle school guidance counselor, but I found out that in Kentucky and Ohio in order to earn a degree in counseling, one first has to get a teaching license and teach for three years prior. I never really imagined myself becoming a teacher considering I've spent the vast majority of my life thus far dreading the moments that I'm forced to sit in a classroom, but the more I think about it the more I realize that maybe going into education wouldn't be all that bad. I've always liked to write, so I would definitely choose English as my area of expertise. Maybe helping kids learn to love literature and become better writers for a little while would prove to be pretty rewarding...

...So anyway, a little sidetracked there but on to answer the title of this post which is what is this blog even about. When I was pondering over this assignment and trying to come up with some ingenious idea of my nonexistent dream job, all I kept coming back to was the thought of "I don't really know how yet, but all I really want to do with my life is something where I'm going to exemplify compassion and help make a difference in the lives of others." With that thought came the idea of creating a blog in which I record the little, tiny, usually insignificant things that I notice in my life that make the biggest difference. I don't know about anyone else, but in my experiences I've found that sometimes all it takes to make a day 100,000 times better is something positive happening when you least expect it; and this can occur in a wide variety of forms. Whether it is a newfound hobby, stumbling upon a fantastic new song, having an unplanned conversation with an old friend you've all but lost touch with, receiving a smile from a stranger, or having the pleasure of witnessing an act of random kindness. I think that if we only paid more attention, we would see that these tiny "differences" are happening all around us each and every day, and I would like to begin to take the time to notice them. This is kind of like a school project with greater value to me than originally intended. A project in which I not only HAVE to hear your ideas and experiences, I WANT to hear them..and want others to hear them as well. I am genuinely interested in getting the ball rolling on this thing. May I challenge you?

Here's a little something to start us off with:

Look what I ran across on the internet this morning- it's a short film sponsored by Liberty Mutual's Responsibility Project starring Tate Donovan that dipicts a father's incredible journey to find a lost teddy bear for his son...pretty sweet...check it out!

Tony <<<

Hai un buon giorno.

(You have a good day.)