Before the Craziness begins

I figured I should get a post in before the madness of an 18 credit hour semester and 30 hours of work a week begins. Thank heavens for the light at the end of the tunnel and graduating in August! Today I came across a quote that I absolutely love. I have always been a fan of C.S. Lewis, I believe him to be one of the most intellectual thinkers of all time.

It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses. To remember that the dullest, most uninteresting person you talked to today may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you will be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror in the corruption, such as you now meet, if at all, only in your nightmares. All day long, we are in some degree helping each other on to one of these destinations. There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations: these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals with whom we joke, work with, marry, snub and exploit: immortal horrors or everlasting splendors. --CS Lewis

It really makes you think. It goes along with my last post about people being extraordinary. Nobody is ordinary, and we should take the time to treat people as though we are helping them reach their potential. It's important that we help them become the best that they can be. One thing that has such a great impact on our lives is how we treat those "immortals" around us. They truly are the ones we spend all of our time and experience new things with. It allows you to think more positively of other if you can understand that their potential is so much greater then what they are now...and we should love them. Love (verb): to see one's eternal potential and help them achieve it.