After completing my second mission, I have many thoughts that have come to mind.
First, my thoughts about educators. Your lasting school experience probably had little to do with the people who taught you, the information you learned, but more from your peers and your daily interactions with them. However, once in a great while, you happened into the classroom of a very special person–and likely, you will left their presence changed. I feel like I've reflected on teachers a lot this week already. I will simply say that if you have an educator that has impacted your life greatly, please take the time to thank them.
Secondly, and perhaps more interesting and pertinent to this project, in both of my challenges so far I have had to sacrifice part of my original plan in order to finish the challenge in time. At first, I was filled with negative feelings about this–probably not in small part due to the fact that I've been labeled as impatient most my life. The thought kept butting in that maybe I was just not being patient enough and I should give the projects more time so that they would be completed with excellence and "just so". However, I quickly recognized this negative thought as impatience's best friend…perfectionism.
The whole purpose for creating this blog was to prompt me to live out the "big ideas" I had in my real life–adding more passion and adventure along the way. However, my natural tendency is to want everything to be perfect before I even start a project–and unfortunately, that leaves most of my projects unstarted…scraps in my mental "waiting line". A list of unfinished (and worst…unstarted!!) projects was not what I had hoped for, so I soldiered on sacrificing part of my plan (i.e., Faye getting the coats in person or prints on watercolor paper) in order to complete the project. I believe this project is molding me and shaping me into being a more action oriented person. It is my desire to be more than a person with big ideas, but a person with a big life–one full of compelling passion and adventure.