Now has come the time when we look back and reflect on our previous semester. It is the time when we berate ourselves for the places where we faltered and pat ourselves on the back for getting through yet another semester. For me this time seems like the moments while driving that you allow yourself to look in the rear view mirror. But, while I was reflecting on what I would reflect on, I realized how rear view mirror focused this class was.
We spent the first few weeks of this class discussing Hurricane Katrina. We dissected and discussed every moment of those first few days after Katrina made land fall in New Orleans and did a wide sweeping arch of the months after that. What I can tell you is everyone in office screwed up. They screwed up big and they screwed up on national television. It didn't look good on them lets say that. But, hindsight is 20/20. As much as I would love to say I would never mess up as publicly and gravely as they did, I don't know. I didn't sit amongst our leaders as they discussed what the next step in this horrific tragedy was. I sat at home listening to the average man critique the work they'd done.
Now however, I feel it is no longer time to look in the rear view mirror. It is now time to move forward and change what we can. No, we can't fix the hundreds of mistakes our predecessors made, but we can take steps to change them. So, from this sentence on I refuse to look in my rear view mirrors, instead I plan to focus out my windshield and my non-profit tasks ahead.
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