Lessons from Vegas
A few days ago my boys had never flown, never been to Vegas, never ridden public transportation, never, never, never…. The list of things would go on and on and on!
Not even six months ago, my oldest told me he would never fly.
I knew it was time for a big vacation, as we have never really been on one. As a single mom, those things don’t happen much!
We started through the list of things to do and one by one he said, “Do I have to fly?”
“Yes.”
“Then I don’t want to do it.”
But it was by chance that he mentioned one night, “Man, I’d like to go to a UFC fight in person.”
“Find out when one is, and we’ll go for our vacation?”
“Seriously?”
“Seriously.”
Within thirty minutes he emerges telling me, “UFC 98 is in Las Vegas. Can we go?”
“We would have to fly.”
Without a moment of hesitation, he comes back with, “I don’t care.”
He didn’t even think about it, y’all!!! Not even for a moment.
I expected him to get nervous as the day grew near.
Nope. Not a bit.
As we boarded the plane?
Not even then!
You see, he wanted to go to that fight so bad he was willing to conquer a fear to get there.
And Jonah was not going to let us go to Vegas without him, so he had to rise to the occasion as well.
He was nervous, but it’s funny the things you can still do in spite of being nervous!
Whether you conquer your fears or go on in spite of them, either way you end up in Vegas!
May 25, 2009 at 11:49 pm
Cool! Did you get good seats?
May 27, 2009 at 10:12 am
Decent seats. I was just thankful we were all three together!
Row 25 one way and 32 the other.