the osc blog: Submitting

Last week was amazing. This week shook me a bit.

Last week I went to Spain for the first time and it was amazing. My friend Yaya and I had blast cruising through Madrid and Barcelona enjoying the sites, food, and history of those European streets. The weather was very comfortable and I had a blast through and through. From the last time I blogged, which was a while ago, I also got to do a couple of “overseas visits” on a more local level. By that I mean that I was able to once again see my friends Mark and Brooke in Colorado, but this time and Durango, and got to see many other friends I met in Korea in Vegas. Time to give my luggage a little resting time as I try to figure out where the next trip should be.

Upcoming events include my brother’s birthday, who also graduates from college shortly after. The concept of someone who I swear is still (and forever will be) eight years old in my mind completely perplexes and boggles it all at once. He wants to take some time to intern and/or volunteer before he decides on a graduate school path, which I think will suit him well. This brings me to the topic of submission. I don’t mean it in the sense of giving power to someone else or adhering to someone’s commands, but rather in sending things out. One sends things out to many deciding parties and doesn’t know whether the correspondence from those parties will come back with good or bad news. A huge chunk of our lives have been based on submitting. Whether we submitted an essay to a teacher and didn’t find out the grade until weeks later, applied to college not knowing who or what was going to make your educational decisions for you, or applied to job not knowing if anyone was going to give you an interview or even give your resume a second glance…it’s a tough process.

As humans, one of our biggest frustrations is not knowing. We like knowing. Especially when it takes Google 2.3 seconds to come up with 10 million search results, it’s hard not to want to know. So when we submit, we submit to an air-like ether of not knowing, much of the time affecting major decisions.

With that said, I’ll touch a little on this week and some news I just got about some people whom I hold near and dear. They made a choice, and although it may be altering, I trust their decision, because it is better to know.

Side note: this Saturday I will be walking for Walk Now for Autism Speaks! http://www.walknowforautismspeaks.org/faf/donorReg/donorPledge.asp?ievent=1124950&lis=1&kntae1124950=3F3446622A4F4469906A4B21D4142266&supId=419673361

Since the last post, I've completed two 10Ks, I really need to start signing up for more races: