Being Noticed

So I have another blog, and this is an old post from 2009ish that I wrote that I thought was still interesting and true

I think a part of life that is often over looked but represents one of the greatest feelings that we humans can feel is that moment when someone shows you in their own way that you are noticed. Not that obligatory hello that people say in the hallway when walking by, but a representative notion that you have some value in their life. And that's when you have been a success people! It is that moment precisely that you know that you have placed a footprint in this world. For somehow, you have left a mark on that person for the rest of their life.

When did it happen to me this year? I would go to Dr. Moll's office and he would talk and talk like he knows how to do so well. He would tell me everything I needed to know to be successful in his class. He would profess his knowledge on a particular subject in a non-objective way and then send me off to make that personal decision of whether to listen to anything he said, or do nothing. The moment where he showed me that I was noticed was when I took my last test in music history and scored on of the highest grades. He was amazed that I took what he said seriously and it instantly opened a door to a different side of him that i've never seen before. Before he talked down to me and looked at me as some mediocre student trying to just pass, now he looks at me as an apprentice; as someone eager to learn what knowledge he has to offer. It was the first time that a teacher at ECU noticed me and for that I am forever grateful.

So, think about it. What was one moment you can remember when someone expressed that you were noticed. It doesn't have to be a teacher or professor, it could just be a friend, foe, or passerby.

Deron