Blog Entry Number 2

Blog Entry Number 2

Text to Self Connection

My book, The Last Lecture, is divided into sections with numerous stories and pieces of advice from the author Randy. One of the stories is titled, Pouring Soda in the Backseat. The story talked about how Randy didn’t have kids until his late thirties, so he hung out with his sisters two young children. He was the “fun uncle” which we all adore. He loved taking his niece and nephew on adventures a couple times a month to show them the world threw different ways. In this story I found a connection to a vacation to my cousins’ cottage this past year with only my uncle as our adult supervision. I found these two men had similar rules.  

  1) No whining

  2)Whatever we do on this vacation we don’t tell our mothers.

Words of wisdom. While we were out at the cottage we seemed to be dirtying every dish in the house. It finally got to the point where it was so crowded a few dishes fell to the floor and broke. My uncle didn’t get mad though. He just looked at us and said we would clean the dishes up and for the rest of the time we would use paper plates. He didn’t get mad, showing us accidents happen and we could have a good time together, while taking away a job. Something similar happened with Randy. He came to pick up his niece and nephew during the afternoon in his new convertible. As he pulled up his sister made sure to tell them to keep it clean, wipe their feet before getting in and not to touch or make a mess of everything. He thought these were ridiculous rules because kids always make messes. So as she was speaking he poured a can of soda all over the back seat, to show them people make mistakes and they are more important than things. Show people they are going to make mistakes and it’s only human, don’t value objects more than the people you love and most importantly, use a soda to show someone you’re important to them.