Grammar, parts of speech and adjectives.
♥You’re an angel.
I spend a lot of time in the class room talking about grammar, parts of speech, adjectives and motivation. I found after fifteen years of teaching that not too many teachers actually brought up subjects like how to get good grades, developing good study habits, LIKING or even LOVING learning and one of my favorites, brushing and flossing.
Maybe that is why I started a blog, so I could spend more time thinking, writing and talking about what I find more important than grammar — inspiration, motivation and becoming a better person.
If you like what you are learning you are going to study harder. It’s just a theory. What do you think? Do you agree?
One of my friends asked me how I was going to measure the success of my blog. Well, I then ask you to define success.
Is it when I make my life better somehow, your life better? Is it when I make a certain sum of money? Is it when I get a lot of compliments or comments on a post?
Or, is it when someone notices a small detail like the perfume you are wearing or the color of the specks in your eyes. {if you answered yes here, please give yourself two points and a coffee break.}
How do you measure success?
Is it when you have fallen in love? Is it when you have a certain amount of money in your bank account? Is it when you are able to travel somewhere you have always wanted to go?
Or is it losing weight? Stopping smoking?
To me, success is stopping, enjoying the moment and living in gratitude. For some reason, I always got caught in the belief system of needing and wanting more. I worked, and worked hard until I obtained my next goal. For some reason, there is always another goal right around the corner.
♥The gift of the blessing.
Lately I read in a book by Gregg Braden, called IQ Matrix, that all words are just words given to us to label things as children and we just accept them.
I also learned lately that the opposite of whatever we believe can be proven true. So what is the truth? A collective consciousness? Is it when we have the house, the car and the family?
He also wrote some incredible insights about our DNA and how we are all interwoven in a divine, sort of holigraphic type way.
I think happiness is when we finally stop looking outside of ourselves for and accept ourselves exactly how we are; creatures of God, with our defects and our glory. Believe it kids, it’s self love at it’s finest.
I did not expect when I started this blog was that I would get an extremely supportive and loving audience to write to. I didn’t expect I would find a way to show off my art work.
I didn’t expect that I would be making and sustaining more new friendships than I have in a long time. In a way it’s a bit sad that our society so openly embraces internet relationships when what truly matters are the people you have in front of you.
I didn’t expect I would be able to provide the tools necessary to good or great people to help their ideas become even better while some truly flourished.
Somewhere along the lines, my real life and my virtual life are becoming blurred. A teacher called me out of class today while I was teaching. It was super strange and out of the blue. She had heard that kids were making fun of my accent.
I was six inches away from her face looking at her eyes and thinking what is she saying? Has she called me out because she cares? Because she wants to know me? Because she is reprimanding me? Because she is praising me?
For goodness sakes I was in the middle of a lesson, half way through the sentence on the blackboard: A lorry is bigger than a van. That sentence must be more important, right? Or is it the face to face contact?
I think it’s communication. It’s an attempt to make our current situation a little bit better by talking. That’s our job, right, Chass? Just to make this world a little bit more beautiful?
You truly ARE angels.
I love that I have someone to write to. I love that you share. I love that you have become part of my life, virtual or real. They are all just words anyway.
Julie
Now it’s your turn.
I’d like to know how you evaluate success? What are the labels that society has given you that you just don’t agree with? Do you think the teacher pulled me outside to praise me or to reprimand me? What’s your view on virtual vs. real life communication?
Mostly, what kind of things can you and I do to make this world just a little bit better or more beautiful?
Thanks for reading. Comments are not only appreciated, they are paid. 
