Learning Piece by Piece and Getting Dirty Fingers

So my last post was “And so it begins!” as I turned 26 and immediately felt the clock ticking on my life. I am currently in a situation where thinking that way is not encouraged for many reasons. It doesn’t do anybody else any good to complain about your life situation. Nobody really cares about your life situation. And there’s plenty of time to figure out whatever you need to figure out. I keep telling people that’s not the case and if we want to “be change” then we should start now while we’re in our 20s, wherever that age might be. But nobody around me really thinks like that. So I end up thinking that way by myself because while everybody turns their back, my thought wrinkle in the middle of my eyebrows grows deeper, I concentrate harder, and I become more determined to not convince myself that I’m crazy, that what I’m doing isn’t important, and it doesn’t matter.

So I go to Home Depot and collect all these samples. I go to Google and learn how to build things (http://www.ehow.com/list_6827966_materials-build-model-house.html#page=1) . I eavesdrop on customer conversations as they talk about how to measure things on a house. Or how to build stairs. And I keep it in the back of my mind for later use with the GSO Compassion Mission because I’m not crazy. What I’m doing is important. And it does matter.

So what I’ve been doing (other than convincing myself I’m not mental), is trying to find the time to figure out how to build a model of the GSO Compassion Mission. I won’t post photos until later on when more things are in place, but I must say it’s a little difficult. But “a little difficult” never stopped me from trying to figure something out. I got a big piece of cardboard, found smaller and thinner pieces of cardboard (almost like cardstock) and started measuring out the dimensions of the house. As I built the first floor and the second floor, placed the green houses and the shed, things came together. However, seeing as it’s held together by small pieces of scotch tape, although it’s coming together, one small gust of wind or a step that’s too heavy, could probably make it come apart.

So readers (whoever you may be), this house is coming together, falling apart, coming back together and one day soon it’ll be a model. And that model will be a promise to everyone that a home is that much closer to being finished and made just for you. It might take a little while, but Rome wasn’t built in a day and I’m one person with two hands and ten dirty fingers.

“1) Forget about having an identity crisis and get some identity capital. –do something that’s an investment in who you wanna be next.

2) The urban tribe is overrated. –new things come from what are “weak ties”. Half of new jobs aren’t even posted.

3) The time to start picking your family is now. –“you can’t pick your family, but you can pick your friends”. Grabbing whoever you’re sleeping with when everybody else starts walking down the aisle is not progress. Be as intentional with love as you are with work.

4) Don’t be defined by what you didn’t know or didn’t do.”