This past weekend I went with a friend to visit another good friend, Bobby Woods, at Bethesda Naval Medical Center in Maryland, just a quick metro ride from Washington D.C. Bobby was injured in combat in Afghanistan a little over a month ago and there is a feature about him in the Red and Black. He is recovering astonishingly quickly and amazing all of us. When your life changes like that in an instant, or even someone else's life who is close to you, it makes you think a lot about what's important.
The point of this blog is to help me figure out where I should take my career, but I feel like I should also take some time to stop and smell the roses, right? If I work hard this last year of college and enjoy myself a little too, a job after graduation would just be icing on the cake.
And we had cake, too, in celebration of Bobby's birthday. Superman-themed, of course, because 1LT Bobby Woods is a real-life super hero.
"You can't know how you would behave in a crisis until it drops out
of the sky and knocks you down like a bandit: stealing your future, robbing you of your dreams, and mocking anything that resembles certainty. Sudden
tragic events and even slow-burning disasters teach us more about ourselves
than most of us care to know."-Lee Woodruff, wife of Bob Woodrufff, a journalist who was seriously injured in 2006 while reporting near Taji, Iraq.
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