I believe in the power of personal
relationships to make the world a happy place: When I started High
School at Mount Saint Joseph I was scared to death for the security
of my future, but more importantly I was terrified for the integrity
of my inner world. My place of honesty and feeling within my heart. I
was always a shy and anxious kid but at the time high school was the
big leagues, and my mothers grand pride and excitement didn't help
the situation at all.
But then something beautiful happened,
Mount Saint Joseph started teaching me. I'm not just talking about
math and chemistry and spell check here, I began to learn true values
to carry me through life. The five Xevarian virtues Compassion,
Simplicity, Zeal, Trust, and Humility. My teachers, my classmates,
and even the staff I didn't know welcomed me into their lives and
offered me guidance and loved me like family.
It was in this experience that I
learned that in my pursuit of knowledge, skill, and professional
success there was one other key thing that I desperately wanted to
have in my life always. I wanted to be in a community of caring
friends. The enduring personal relationships of my beloved school did
not cling to an old fashioned sense of cold and distant
professionalism and yet managed to enhance my life and brighten my
inner world, so it would not sink below a sea of tears as I feared it
might in the cold cruel world but instead it would have a beautiful
landscape with sturdy comfortable homes for me and my true friends.
When we get personal with each other we realize we have more than
just jobs to do, and that we have lives to live together.
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