Carlton / Holy Father - #1

On March 26th, Dr. Redick brought in a guest speaker for us in the form of former professor at CNU, Carlton. He said we could call him Carlton or that we could call him Holy Father because he was a priest. I personally was not about to call him holy father because I had never called anybody Holy Father in my entire life but people can do what they want and that is chill. He this really large candle with him that he lit at the start of his talk and it was burning the entire way throughout. He asked for every student to give him 3 words that described their feelings at the time, I thought it was pretty neat to be honest and there was something about him that made me kinda wanna be honest and not give him a lame answer, so I took that pretty seriously. He talked about these different things like love, and told this story about this guy that kept saying "Hmmm, we shall see" which was also pretty neat and something I enjoyed a good bit. He also talked a lot about his past, growing up on sex, drugs, and rock & roll as well as going to Princeton and getting a scholarship there. To be honest with you, I thought this was really interesting because it made me think that like this was a dude who had been through it all. I feel like I got a lot out of this talk, it's kinda difficult to explain because it was really interesting but he left us with this one thought that I couldn't stop thinking about for a while, and that was: "Being aware that we are aware" and I don't know too much about all that but I still think about him saying that. I just like really enjoyed that idea of being aware and I think that is going to stick with me for a while. 

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