Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Radvent, Day 9 - INSPIRING
















Ask someone you love what you have done to inspire them.
Be proud of yourself and marvel at how your own little sphere of influence is ever-expanding, completely out of your control.


Instead, I will now write about what inspires me about Hum-z.
1. Soccer - Anyone from any country, regardless of language barrier, skill level, or economic can bond over soccer. It brings people together. He can go anywhere and make friends, whether it is playing in a foreign park, or striking up a conversation with total strangers in a bar. 2. People who put their ideas into motion - He has so many ideas (most of which I shoot down.) But that doesn't stop him from dreaming. He has so many things he wants to do, so many inventions, business endeavors, designs in his head. 3. Helping people. He will go out of his way to help people. Key examples include: shoveling all the elderly neighbors sidewalks, staying late at work to help a coworker with computer problems, and the most recent, helping a lost traveler and total stranger, pay her parking fee, find her train while carrying her bag and running to get to the platform so they both didn't miss the train. The Princeton train station can be pretty confusing. His random acts of kindness inspire me to take the extra minute to help someone out if the chance presents itself.

As for me...Here's what inspires me the most. 1. Lists - It's like writing it down peer pressures me into doing stuff...I also like to cross things off. 2. The internet - I can always find something new. There is always something happening somewhere and the internet brings it to me, while I am sitting on my couch in my pajamas. 3. The city - I love urban! I love people, lights, crowds, motion. Each city I visit has an energy that cannot be emulated anywhere else. My favorites include NYC, London, Sydney. 4. Colors - My happiest day would just be to throw gallons of paint on everything, everywhere I went. I think it's fair to say that if it has a good color palette, I want it. I want to be surrounded by color!

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