I was talking with a good friend about TV shows we watched
growing up. And being who I am, the conversation lead to several other tangent
thought processes in my head. The first is the realization that growing up I
didn't have any real male role models. All the men that inspired me and taught
me what it is to be a good man and a good person were all fictional. I learned
a great many things from men like Star Trek: The Next Generation's Captain Jean
Luc Picard, MacGyver, and Quantum Leap's Sam Beckett.
One of the things I learned from Sam Beckett is that you can
do an unimaginable amount of good in small doses and those doses ripple out and
cause even more good. You may not see those ripples, or the effects they have,
but that good is out there. And, it's out there because of you.
