Markers

Everyone has markers in their life, both good and bad. There's the good...the first kiss, graduation, wedding day, the birth of a child. There is also the difficult markers...a death in the family or death of a dream, a move, rejection (I am still getting over The Price is Right rejecting me last week and not asking me to come on down). The thing with markers is that they should be significant but they shouldn't define us. Too many people are defined by markers. We all know the former high school jock who lived his best years in high school. I have also seen people allow a negative marker to define them and they have not been able to move on. Today is the one year anniversary of the shootings at VA Tech. Watching a story on SportsCenter this morning I was reminded about how well they are doing with this marker. The shooting changed things, and they will always remember it, but Coach Beamer said they are now moving on. They are closer than they used to be, more focused and unified as a campus. I think that is they same attitude that we should have with both good and bad markers. Learn from them, but don't let them define you. Move on from them and allow them to catapult you to the next level.