Reality

Each of our lives can seem to be interesting to others, but as the saying goes, don't judge a book by its cover. What if each of our lives were a reality show and that show would be somewhat compared to that hit MTV series Diaries. Though our lives may not be glamorous, it's our lives, take it or leave it. Oftentimes, the people we talk to sometimes think the lives we lead seem interesting and cool. A person just has to sit back, look, and simply say, "You think you know, but you have no idea.

My life is not so different from the rest of America's. I have a fun and interesting job that I go to each week and have friends and family that have my back. But it's the interesting things that happen in between that can be considered "great television". But what constitutes "great television" when it involves one's own life? For I have spent the last 8 years working at a Youth Center and within those 8 years countless stories can be told. Untold stories that can make a person either laugh or cry upon hearing it.

Tom Hanks’ character Forrest Gump once said, "Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are going to get". For that quote is so true, because in my line of work, nothing can truly prepare a person as he or she walks past a bathroom and here these words echoing from within, "See, mine is bigger than yours!" It's totally mind blowing what kids are capable of doing if left unsupervised for a long period of time. As it has been said, "Now I've heard and/or seen everything" a sentiment that I say over and over again.

Kids tend to fight as they often do and it's my job to step in to cool things down. For I have to be a negotiator, investigator, interrogator, enforcer, referee, judge, jury, and executioner while trying to be a peacekeeper. It can truly befuddle the human mind as the reasons why kids do what they do. Sometimes they don't have a reason and I just have to laugh at the comedy of it all and wonder if I'm being Punk'd. For any minute Ashton Kutcher is going to pop out and I come to the realization that I have just been had.

For a person can discover things about themselves that he or she has never known. Personally speaking, I discovered that I have a lot of patience dealing with kids but I also discovered that I don't make any sense when I get angry with them as well. For a guy's brain can't comprehend emotion and thought at the same time, we can only choose one. That's the life I chose to live folks and you know what, I have enjoyed every minute of it. I wouldn't want to trade my life with anybody else because the kids make it all worthwhile....most of the time. With or without cameras following me around, that's my reality.