Yesterday millions, if not billions of people across the world sat down and watched the premeire American sporting event now known as the Super Bowl. For the days and the hours leading up to the game there was the usual relentless media coverage of the individual stories within the overall story. Stories of how players and coaches went through various personal and career struggles to get to this point of their lives. We all follow it because in some way we are vicariously experiencing their struggles along with our own daily life struggles and challenges. It's both cathoric and inspiring to release the tention to our own struggles by watching or learning about somone overcoming their own. In this case it's professional athletes. It helps us find meaning and identify that we are not alone in our struggles and challenges.
I don't think we should depend or always cater to the challenges of professional athletes showcased at sporting events to inspire us, or provide a beacon to us. I think we should look at those around us, those close us - our mother's and father's, our teachers, police officers, firemen and emergency service workers to inspire us everyday. I think we should have a Super Bowl spectacular honoring those among us who put their lives on the line everyday like our soldiers and our coast guard recue personel. A mother of 4 children holding down one or two jobs. A father who goes out there and works two jobs to care for his children. A coast guard swimmer who rescues someone from a sinking boat, in high seas and gets them safely on board the helicopter.
Let me repeat - we need to have a day (if not daily) celebration, honor and observation of our mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers, cousins, aunts and uncles who wake up everyday and go out and do their jobs that helps our town, our state, our nation - running. Everyday they are out there working to save or protect our lives. They do this with no worries about their own lives. They do this to help us all live our lives.
How many of us have been to a hospital with great doctors and great nurses? Most of us have been to a bad hospital visit or two, but how many of us remember the really great ones that we've been to? A doctor or nurse who spent and gave that extra bit of themselves that made all of the positive difference in our visit. We need to honor those people. Give out some form of trophy for recognition. Perhaps inspire that other docotor or nurse that we went, who wasn't very good - to do better?!
Maybe we can have moms lined up on the one side and fathers on the other side. Have them square off in a wrestling match with laundry, dishes, event planning for the kids (with their smartphones and tablets of course) and still maintaining a night with each other and with their friends. I'd like to see a high definition, multiangle camera view of coast guard rescuers giving each other some high fives, or jumping up and bumping each other with their backs after they just saved some crewmen from a sinking cargo ship.
Better yet, I'd love to see a digital instant replay of some nurses and doctors doing an "end zone dance" after saving some car accident victims from certain death in the operating room.
Everyday life is tough. We all have our own struggles. As I sit here, a working father of four who must deal with his own struggles, I will be the first to salute all fathers and mothers who are out there getting it done everyday. I salute our soldiers, recue workers, teachers, firemen and community leaders. You are all out there working, fighting, struggling to get it done right everyday. We all owe each other that respect and salute. We all deserve our own Super Bowl for Service.
That's just my humble opinion. Have a great week everyone. More to come this week as my path towards my own website continues.
I don't think we should depend or always cater to the challenges of professional athletes showcased at sporting events to inspire us, or provide a beacon to us. I think we should look at those around us, those close us - our mother's and father's, our teachers, police officers, firemen and emergency service workers to inspire us everyday. I think we should have a Super Bowl spectacular honoring those among us who put their lives on the line everyday like our soldiers and our coast guard recue personel. A mother of 4 children holding down one or two jobs. A father who goes out there and works two jobs to care for his children. A coast guard swimmer who rescues someone from a sinking boat, in high seas and gets them safely on board the helicopter.
Let me repeat - we need to have a day (if not daily) celebration, honor and observation of our mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers, cousins, aunts and uncles who wake up everyday and go out and do their jobs that helps our town, our state, our nation - running. Everyday they are out there working to save or protect our lives. They do this with no worries about their own lives. They do this to help us all live our lives.
How many of us have been to a hospital with great doctors and great nurses? Most of us have been to a bad hospital visit or two, but how many of us remember the really great ones that we've been to? A doctor or nurse who spent and gave that extra bit of themselves that made all of the positive difference in our visit. We need to honor those people. Give out some form of trophy for recognition. Perhaps inspire that other docotor or nurse that we went, who wasn't very good - to do better?!
Maybe we can have moms lined up on the one side and fathers on the other side. Have them square off in a wrestling match with laundry, dishes, event planning for the kids (with their smartphones and tablets of course) and still maintaining a night with each other and with their friends. I'd like to see a high definition, multiangle camera view of coast guard rescuers giving each other some high fives, or jumping up and bumping each other with their backs after they just saved some crewmen from a sinking cargo ship.
Better yet, I'd love to see a digital instant replay of some nurses and doctors doing an "end zone dance" after saving some car accident victims from certain death in the operating room.
Everyday life is tough. We all have our own struggles. As I sit here, a working father of four who must deal with his own struggles, I will be the first to salute all fathers and mothers who are out there getting it done everyday. I salute our soldiers, recue workers, teachers, firemen and community leaders. You are all out there working, fighting, struggling to get it done right everyday. We all owe each other that respect and salute. We all deserve our own Super Bowl for Service.
That's just my humble opinion. Have a great week everyone. More to come this week as my path towards my own website continues.
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