Live your life as if you're one

Today was just another reminder of how special life is, and how grateful I (and everyone, i suppose) should be for every day that we get. My heart goes out to everyone at Tech.

For anyone who isn't aware, there was a terrible shooting at Virginia Tech (Virginia Polytechnic University) which is a little over an hour west of my school. Because this area of Virginia is home to so many colleges and universities, all our communities are very much connected and intertwined. There are many on my campus who have friends at Tech, and I'm sure that many of our professors and staff know people who are a part of that community as well.

I cannot imagine how devastated those students must be; Our community being so small was nearly stopped still upon the passing of a single student in 2001 (she was a freshman, and was killed less than a mile from campus). Even still there are students and alumnae who decorate the Poetry Tree in her memory. While Tech is a much larger school, those students and others who were involved are no less important to their loved ones.

I was mildly unnerved to consider the availability of communication resources in the event that our school should experience such a security problem as a shooting, and I'm pretty sure it would be very difficult to lockdown R-MWC.

It's only appropriate that I mention this incident today; my very first road trip as a first year at Macon was to Tech, and the students we visited were living in West Ambler Johnson hall, which was where one of the shootings took place today.

Connectivity. Gets you every time.

This might also be a good time to release to you my word:
I have this word that I put up all over the place, because it perfectly signifies the way in which i want to try to live, and how i want to try to treat others....
The word is Edify and it means to uplift morally or spiritually, to instruct, establish and strengthen.

think on that.

And in the words of the wise Ferrick... "all is good today, and today is what I have."