Why A Blog to Remember?

The title of my blog is a pun off of the well known novel and movie, A Walk to Remember. Through both medias, novel and book, I realized that everyone makes an impact on the lives of others. While this impact may be unintentional, and more commonly unrecognized by both the “impactor” and the “impactee”, it is an influential and crucial occurrence of life. Many people believe in the notion that it is impossible to change a person, and I concur with this statement; however, this movie helped shed a new light on this theory. You cannot change someone who is set deeply in their ways, but you can bring out qualities and characteristics they had had in them all along. Growing up in certain environments, or hanging out with the pressures of specific friends, can cause vulnerable and kind qualities of a person to crawl up inside them and hide under the protection of others. However, other experiences like healthy friendships or good grades in school can evoke emotions in hiding to resurface and shine through. I am not suggesting my blog will provide this enlightened experience and change someone, but if just one of my entries forces someone to look at something from a new perspective and allows a different side of them to pop out, even if it is just for a moment, then I have made my impact. So open your minds and break down your prejudices, and let my blog be to you like Jamie’s Walk to Remember was for Landon.