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Thinking Ahead.
Work has been hectic/productive the past few days which has allowed time to scurry by unnoticed. Which is great because its already six days until I leave! (For those of you who don't know yet: On December 14th I leave for Myanmar for 17 days returning New Years Eve). During the seemingly continuous escapade of phone calls today I managed to fill-out and turn-in my request for time off sheet totaling 88 hours of vacation:
[(14 total work days missed) - (1 day comp. time for being on call this coming weekend) - (2 days for Christmas Holiday) = (11 days leftover) * (8 hours in a day) = (88 total hours of vacation time used)]
My boss kinda gasped and said, "well you better at least bring me back a picture of a monkey." My boss and I actually a had fairly good conversation about my trip the other day, which awkwardly transpired in the men's restroom. But he said that he wasn't surprised that I was going, and it would basically be a crime to pass-up a (possibly) once in a lifetime opportunity to travel to a place that most people won't ever witness.
I completely agree with him. I've had other people express their lack of understanding for why I would spend as much as I have (or am going to) to go some place like this, when the money could be better spent on other things. My response is this: Yes there are other things that my money could have been spent on: things such as paying off more of my student loans, car loan, or spent on fun things such as a new computer, tv, etc; But a hundred years from now I will be dead and those things will be either non-existent, hopefully paid off, or non-essential for a dead person. While this is an experience that I will not forget for the rest of my life and hopefully our efforts in the churches in Myanmar will affect generations to come both in Myanmar and my own offspring. If you can't draw the line between my trip and my offspring I don't blame you:
My Trip -> affects me and who I am -> affects how I live my life -> affects my treatment of and beliefs passed to -> my future offspring
Other connections can be drawn but that's the most obvious.
Which gives birth to another topic: How many people actually consider how their actions today will affect their kids and other generations to come? I know I never used to; Live in the now, Man. That expression is nothing but a worthless excuse to throw all morals and inhibitions out the window. Nothing good has ever or will ever follow that statement. In the words of Zach Galifianakis from the movie Out Cold:
"No regrets, that's my motto.......that and everybody wang chung tonight."
Of course no regrets means not regretting not doing something, but it also means not regretting doing something (get that?). If we didn't have any underlying morals silently advising us to choose right and not wrong, what would keep us from always doing wrong or never doing right? Chaos would ensue.
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Disciple of Christ, Husband, Father, and IT-guy.
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