Integrity is something that I take pretty seriously. And yesterday due to a scheduling snafu at work I felt briefly that my integrity was in question. Here's the thing, I may not be fast in my new job. I may not always know what I'm doing. And I may not know what to do to keep busy during slow times. What I do know is I always show up when I'm scheduled to be there. In this case, what I was told and what was written on the schedule were two different things. In the grand scheme of things, I know it's not a big deal. However it did get me thinking about how much integrity society has in general these days. Take our federal government for example. And after thinking about that for 5 seconds I decided not to think about integrity and society.
The other night I was talking with my mom and the conversation segued into courage. Mom said she was thinking about me making this move and she realized how much courage it must have taken for me to get in my car that April morning and drive away. First of all, I was touched by the sentiment of what she said. (Thanks Mom!) And secondly, I think courage steps forward when one gets to the point where not being courageous seems scarier. I thought about making this move for a long time. Then the day came where I knew if I didn't just pick a date and set the plan in motion it wasn't ever going to happen. And no matter how scary putting the plan in motion was, I was at the point where not doing it seemed like a far worse fate. The other night as Bill Nye the Science Guy was voted off of Dancing With the Stars he said that he was grateful for the opportunity and that in life, "you don't remember the things that you did, you remember the things that you didn't do." Perhaps the opposite of being courageous is the things that you didn't do.
And finally, during my evenings walks on the beach there has been a vessel loitering around the inlet. At first I was sure it was pirates. Just waiting for the chance to come ashore and steal Jak and me. And then I asked an old gent what it was doing. It's a dredger! They're removing sand from the inlet to keep the channel open and periodically the dredger leaves the inlet and goes out into the ocean to dump the sand. Well that is far better than pirates. I am all about a good dredger, I just hadn't ever seen a working one. The ones I've seen were abandoned on land. I'm also glad the old gent clarified as the dredger is around a lot and I would've gotten super paranoid if I continued on with the pirate theory. Now I'm trying to figure out how to get on board so I can see how it works. That stuff fascinates me. Dred-ger! Dred-ger!
Peace, Love & Pirate's Booty,
Hope
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