How do you let them go when you have only just met them and they write this on their do now:
“Probably in five years I see myself playing college football. I don’t know what college I’m going to play for. But I see myself doing positive things for my life. But in back in my mind Im a sell drugs. I don’t know why? I just think that. But Im going to not try to come to that.”
I truly wish that I could change trajectories in a day.
The serenity prayer?
“Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference.”
You can’t change that in a day, but maybe, over the year, you can change that for a few kids.
I always struggle when I’m faced with a problem I don’t know how to solve-usually these are students or friends in front of me who just don’t know how to overcome whatever they are facing.