NPR has a serious called "This I Believe," it is a series of essays describing core values that guide people all over the world through their daily lives. To here some of them you can check out
I bring this up because one of the returning Academic Success Corp Volunteers (the title of my volunteer job, however she is from a different affiliate) brought these essays to our attention during orientation. She challenged us to write up our own and at the end of the week we shared them as a group. As I was driving home I began to think of one that I wanted to share.
I Believe in the 13 hour day...
I believe in the 13 hour day, you know those days where you wake up and hit the ground running! The days where you do not stop until you hit the bed again that night. I believe in those 13 hour days.
I believe that at the end of my 13 hour day I may be upset or even a little angry, but when I lay in my bed surrounded by the silence those emotions will fade and I will remember why I am doing this. I am dedicating my 13 hour days to these teenagers so that one day they will have a future that they would not have had otherwise.
I believe that one day the scholars will appreciate how many people dedicated multiple 13 hour days to them. As teenagers they do not appreciate it today and they will not appreciate it tomorrow or even next week, but one day they will. I believe one day when these teenagers are older they will dedicate a 13 hour day to someone they care for, someone they are fighting for, someone that they are dedicated to and they will appreciate the 13 hour days that people dedicated to them.
I realize now that many people dedicated their 13 hour days to me and those people may have never been properly thanked. So I thank you Teachers, Professors, Mothers, Fathers, Brothers, Sisters, Directors, Techies, Actors, Friends, Colleagues, Ministers, Youth Workers, and everyone else who has ever dedicated a 13 hour day to me and who ever does in the future.
I believe in the 13 hour day!
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