As we go about life here it is easy to forget or overlook all the development happening around us. Sometimes we glance, but don't really look. Look, but don't truly observe. I looked up at the bus station where I transfer buses every morning and was surprised to be greated by the sight above. Huh. Didn't even notice that they had started to demolish the buildings and now they are clearing out the rubble. And the crazy part is that in another week the rubble will be gone. But this lot won't stand empty, oh no, before long it will be another apartment building or office tower. But as I snapped the pic, and it got me to thinking about all those I care about around me. How often do I glance at them, but not really see? Ask what is happening in their lives, but not hear the deeper stuff. Because life marches on and if we don't stop sometimes to just be with a friend or our kids, then those opportunities are lost. And that is my vow (or hope or whatever you what to call it), to take the time, to show others that I care, and not just be swept up by life. How did I get from building demolition to here? Ah, this is what happens when you have time to ponder life when taking the bus.
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So (which is really just a way for an abrupt transition), school has started again. Level 4. Yikes! Am I really ready to study level 4 Chinese? But here we go, ready or not. I must confess that I was super excited to buy my school supplies. No clue why. Maybe it makes me feel like a kid again? But I went a couple days ago and got new pencils, erasers, notebooks, and character books (kind of like handwriting books, but made specially to write characters in). And after only 2 days of class, I have a quiz on my 40 new vocab words tomorrow. On that note, I am off to write these words several more times and just maybe they will stick in my brain.
Hope you as well can take the time to show those you care about just why they are important to you.
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