The ending holiday season makes me think about my all-time favorite Christmas movie, A Christmas
Story. I watch it as many times as
possible when they show it for 24 hours on Christmas Eve/Christmas Day. One scene in the movie has the teacher asking
her students to write “a theme."
All
the students sigh except Ralphie who thinks it will be the best way for him to
talk about wanting a Red Rider BB gun.
In his words this theme would be so wonderful it would get him out of
theme writing for rest of his natural born life! Of course the theme was not as
well received as he had hoped.
He believed that everyone should own a Red Rider
BB gun and could not understand why everyone was against his having the BB gun.
His belief in owning that gun is unwavering. Never does he think he won’t get
it- even though everyone adult tells him he’ll shoot his eye out.
What do you believe in whole heartedly? What are you willing to go against everyone
on and hold out that you are right?
Having that kind of unwavering faith even in a BB gun is an amazing
thing. How many of us have ever had that kind of faith in anything?
With the new year, it’s time to think about what we want to
accomplish, to think about what we believe in and look at obtaining those
things. Even if it is a Red Rider BB gun.
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Suzanne Cormier
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BizWorks (Small Business Incubator)
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