Found Object

I am so sorry, but you, Reader, will have to share in my boredom, at least for another hour and a half.

On my mandatory 15min break I came across someone's paper for a class. It was left, presumably outside their classroom, leaning against the window.

So, for your enjoyment, my boredom and the author's embarrassment, I now present nuggets of insight from the unabridged "Bertacco [insert page #]"'s paper:


Paragraph #1:

• Society today is always rushed. People are busy working, going to school, picking up the kids from swim lessons, etc. People have so much on their "plates" that they are not able to make time for others.
• Unfortunately, I am not one who can preach about this for I fall into the same trap as most.

Paragraph #2:

• Showing kindness to everyone is an area in my life in which I struggle.
• I am an extremely easy going person that gets along with almost everyone, for I have difficulties finding faults in people. Unfortunately, when I do find major faults in someone, I tend to dislike that person.
• Jesus clearly discusses how society is to act towards one another in Mark 12:31, "The second is this: 'Love your neighbor as yourself'. There is no commandment greater than these." ( ).
• In order to fix this fault, I will make sure that I am kind to each person that I encounter that I dislike.
• I will measure my progress by making a list each night before I go to bed of who I encountered that I dislike, and whether or not I was kind to them.
• Since my close friends know who I dislike and are with me the majority of the time, I will have them look at my list once a week and tell me if my thoughts of each conversation were accurate or distorted.

Paragraph # 3

• Over this semester, and hopefully longer, I will get to spend an hour and fifteen minutes once a week at the Homework House. There I will be tutoring two children of the Azusa community.
• I hope to obtain this [mentorship and friendship] by visiting them once every other Wednesday for an hour after they got out of school. I would like to take them to the park and then to get some ice cream before I took the two children home.

Paragraph #4

• I feel that by being nice to those I do not like, I might find another side of that person that I did not know was there. In turn, I might create a friendship that would have never been there if I had not forced myself to be kind to that person.
• Overall, I believe that by being kind to those that I do not like and by spending time with the children I tutor at the Homework House would crate a new joy in my life that I will love and cherish.

After doing this I kinda feel bad. Like I was a voyeur, snapping shots and sending them to some European skin mag.

I was also going to make snooty comments on each section, but once again that feeling came. So, I guess I'll just let this be and consider it a view into the grey, soft-shelled mind of another.