The Way

After watching The Way, I have been able to look at my life from a slightly different perspective.  Just as Tom started his journey with the sole purpose of honoring his son, I started my journey at the Mount with the sole purpose of doing well academically so I could go to a good and respectable college.  Like Tom however, I met new people, I opened up in sharing parts of my story and listening to parts of others' stories, and I made some very valuable friends that will stay with me forever.  I learned from Tom's pilgrimage, that a true pilgrimage has an individual and a group component.  Each of them are equally important.  As an individual, I have learned to find my boundaries, test them over and over again, and than create new boundaries.  I have learned to speak up during these past four year, and not be afraid to give my opinion.  As a group at the Mount, I have learned how to be proud to be a woman, how to accept and help other women, and how to refuse to be treated any differently from a man.  Tom's pilgrimage taught him to value life and to live a life that he is going to enjoy.  I am hoping that as I leave this stop (the Mount) on my pilgrimage of life and continue on to the next (Boston College), I will find the life that I enjoy living and am meant to live.