Day Seven:

When I watch Gilmore Girls, it reminds me how excited I am to complete my college education.

Journalism. 

Working for a major daily.

They say that if you're scared of your future it is a good thing. So I guess Journalism is good for me. Not like spiders and snakes type of fear. The kind of unprepared fear, the fear of not doing it. My fear more stems from not doing it all. My perspective on Journalism goes like this-

The ability to take any type of story- sports, editorials, arts & leisure, news- and write it to impact.

Take a seemingly unimportant story and bring it to front page, read all about it type of story.

Or better yet, take a life changing topical news story and relay your message of it so well you move others to tears. You help the locals understand what is going around them in the world.

People like:

Christiane Amanpour for her report on the Bosnian War that created so much opinion in that world that it is still talked about in this day. Her ability to take the places she was staying at and reporting on it to paint a picture in our minds was moving.

Carl Bernstein will forever be remembered as the journalist who changed the way we think/report about politics. 

Seymour Hersh's dedication to his investigations brought him and all of us answers to the Massacre of the Vietnamese. 

Just some of the noteworthy Journalists that have inspired me and motivated me to one day do the same. 

I want to be able to write easily. I want to be in the action of the news. 

I want to be aware of this place I've been blessed with.
Being a Journalist means constantly taking chances.
And sitting here reflecting on my life, I realize I need a career full of risk, full of chance.
I have been cushioned in my life.
I've basically received almost everything I've ever wanted. So I think it is about time I learn the struggle of not always getting it so easily. Working towards something and feeling like my hard work is what earned me my job.
It's true, when they say that you don't appreciate something you don't work for.
Journalism means creating and sharing an opinion regardless of others.
Journalism means finding and researching the entire story, every side, and relaying it all.
Journalism means finding yourself and who you are, in order to be able to report on others.
Reporting means putting yourself in the shoes of others to relay what happened, with emotion.

Then there is sports broadcasting. Being able to interview the players, being able to get on the court...of the Nuggets, of course! I just sometimes dream of reporting on the action, giving the full story, a new story, and new angle.

Needless to say, I need to write, I need to report. I need to be in the News Action. That fast paced office, the ever changing snag of it all.

It's a leap of a dream job. Risky, for sure. But I believe it  can happen. I am willing to take that jump. 

'You jump, I jump Jack'