Whimsy. Love Does.
chapter 6, "Go buy your books"
This appears to be the turning point of Bob Goff's live. The moment that enable the purpose of his life to leap through. After waiting for a torturous time on the bench, he was admit into Law school, and from then his whole life course change because of that. If it was to make into a film, that scene will be utterly solemn but fill with happiness/joy/satisfactions. The marble floor echoing the sound of footsteps will be the acoustical memory one can never forget.
I try to understand how whimsy is this scene is. The fact is, I experienced this exactly chapter/scene myself.
Freshmen year, waiting to get into AE. I still remembered Bob Goff telling this story of his on main stage in Jubilee. He told how he waiting on that bench and got in. I didn't get it. I thought something like this you must earn it. And I was bitter. I had yet arrived to the admission, I was still waiting on the bench during Jubilee that year. Life before AE was not life after the day I was admitted in AE. Why? well, for most and obvious, like Bob Goff and law school, AE is the engine starter for the things meant for me to live.
Bob Goff manage to graduate law school, and he believes that is made possible by words that changes everything for someone, words that launch each other, even it is spoken by ordinary people like you and me.
No one ever knew what are the right words to say until they come out and what it triggers becomes a ripple to good things. I don't know have I done everything the way it ought to be (definitely not), or said words that meant for the best (words always escape me, as I say). Launching other people to do love seems insane, but I also know to rise above it will yield a good ripple. This time I know it is time to be whimsy, because Penn State needs whimsy to take heart in all that has happened to us.
Whimsy will help us to see what was wrong, but light-hearted enough to confront us without offending us. Whimsy is sticking it to the end, and that is what we need now. Have whimsy to help us learn the lesson for child abuse, help us live for another year with our football team, and continue the wonderful community that we are, and even best of all, help us advance beyond what we used to know about WE ARE.
WE ARE PENN STATE, and WE ARE MORE THAN PENN STATE.