Cherney’s Life Story

Happy Turkey Day Everyone!

The holidays are just around the corner, and I hope you have a great one.

Life is moving for me.. not as fast as I want in some regards, and really fast in other ways.

I am applying for jobs like crazy, all while school is coming to a close. The opportunities are endless!

Work is work.. I’m working hard at finding a new job that more closely aligns with my new found interests. I’ll keep you posted as my options start to become more clear.

School will be done in 2 weeks, after that I will have my MBA. Who would have thought 9 years ago when I started college, I would be ending with a masters degree. The idea of going for a Ph.D sounds so cool, but the workload just doesn’t interest me. No, or low pay.. just to be a student for even longer. I guess it is something I should consider, as people tell me I would be a good fit for the program.

This term has been one of the hardest I have ever had. Lots of tough classes, and even more challenging group work.

I know I will be able to dedicate more attention to my blog when school comes to a close. I think I should though a big party to celebrate.. hmm.

Well, back to work I go.

If I can not do something, then I can also do it. I can not write these words if I choose (and you may think I shouldn’t), but I also can, and am, writing them. What I cannot do is know who will read them, or what they will think. I can imagine such things, but I’m limited by my experience and perceptions. So this is the rule: if you either could or could not do something, then you use two words, because you can leave out the second word if you so choose. If you could not do something no matter how much you desired or tried, then you use one word, cannot. There is no other option.

Sometimes both are true. Witness:

I cannot change the world.

I can not change the world.

It’s true, I cannot change the world. What I mean, and what many mean when they say or think this to themselves, is that the world’s problems are too big for any one person, or group of people, to take on. Poverty, sickness, hatred, love, weather, earthquakes, political and religious differences—these are inevitable conditions. Even Jesus said, “the poor you will have with you always,” and, “Let the dead bury the dead.”

It’s also true that I can change the world. I, and every other person on the planet, can make a difference. We can give to the poor, and try to cure ourselves of the sickness of wealth (more on that later). We can be courteous, we can provide emotional (listening) or physical (assisting) or financial (donating) help to others, we can feed and help and forgive each other. (More about forgiveness later, too.) We can take in an abandoned dog or cat and give it love. We can plant a garden. We can put in a day’s work and know we earned our pay, and someone, hopefully, was the better for it. We can not cut off someone in traffic. We can dedicate our lives to healing. We can dedicate our lives to loving our family and community. We can respect the differences of others. In other words, what we can do, we can do.

This was taken from a website I found online.