The big rocks

What is important to you? Do we really ask ourselves what is important to us, or do we let our society control us by having certain expectations for us? Yesterday, Sal was telling us a metaphorical story about priorities. An empty jar must be filled in with big rocks first before anything else because they might not fit in later on. After hearing this, I'm really conscious if my big rocks are my own choice, and not pebbles, sand, nor water that society expects me to have. Like in the movie we watched this week, "Tuesdays with Morrie." The movie is about a successful sports writer named Mitch Albom, and his favorite collage/sociology teacher, Morrie. It touches on Mitch's midlife crisis, and he's looking for Morrie's advice on love, and many other more. His dilemma is between the love of his life, and his work. Seeing as how Mitch values work the most because that's what he grew up learning, he realizes that his big rocks isn't as important as marrying his girlfriend. Why was he in this situation in the first place? I believe that our American culture has socially constructed our reality so that we numb ourselves with vulnerability. Who wants to get hurt right? With this thought in mind, who'd want to love? People avoid love to avoid pain, but at the same time we deprive ourselves of happiness we could've achieved. Like a good man once said, "The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.” - Bob Marley