We Will Return to the Regularly Scheduled Baffoonery After This Brief Message From My Serious Side

Here's the thing. I like you, you like me. We should probably get together and do some good.

And here's another thing. It is really difficult to get other people as impassioned about something as you are...especially when it does not involve winning the lottery.

I'm not sure what has come over me lately. I have become a highly motivated do-good machine. If not for the fact that it is fiscally irresponsible of me, I would to quit my job to volunteer. Even with my microbiology degree within grasp, I'm eager to put myself further into education-induced financial crisis in graduate school, just to be able to officially help people who really need me. Probably more than anything, I have to physically restrain myself from beating the Bmore Involved page upside each and every one of my facebook friend's cyber-heads.

Perhaps it has been all the long soul-searching chats that Forrest and I have had lately. (He's sporting the Warrior helmet, btw. Quite dashing, I must say.)

I have so much more than I need, really. I'm a spoiled suburban brat, to be quite honest. How fortunate I am to live in a country that affords me such liberties! And yet, there are children literally down the street from me who have families that are either unwilling or unable to care for them. There are men and women living on park benches in the city, sweltering in the summer heat. The list is endless. (This is Baltimore--we need help.)

I like that I am a bit of a dreamer. I do believe wholeheartedly that if everyone gave just a little of their time in service to someone else that the world would be a whole lot better. You don't have to be smarter or more talented or more ambitious than anyone else; you just have to be willing to make time to fill a need. I believe we can affect positive change, however small, in the lives of those around us.

There is a fine line in asking people to give time they don't have. My over-eager pleas for involvement could cross into Obnoxiousville very quickly, this I know. Please know that I only hope that each person finds something in their lives to be impassioned about, and that you use what you have, to do the most you can, to the best of your ability.

I'm neurotic today because...
...I'm determined, come hell or high water, to live up to the most gracious compliment I've ever received. Thank you so much for your public display of affection this week, family.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Kahlil Gibran