Making Hope Happen: Create The Future You Want For Yourself And Others - Plot & Excerpts
But I was certain that our hope team could engage the kids and get them thinking about the future. So when a handful of high school freshmen were tuned out and a couple seemed flat-out annoyed by us, I had to figure out what was going on. I went quietly over to Steve, a longtime classroom teacher, who seemed to have a good connection with the students. I was curious about one boy in particular. “What’s up with that kid? Why’s he blowing us off?” What Steve shared rocked me: “You guys are talking a lot about the future. I think he would say he doesn’t have one. Some of his cousins and friends died before they hit fifteen. He says he is living on borrowed time.” This student—I will call him Carlos—lived every day the way my former VA client John did in those terrifying days after his medical diagnosis. Carlos saw himself as a boy with no future. Why should he spend an hour a week talking about something he didn’t have? I realized that our first job was to reconnect Carlos—and a few other students in his class—with a believable future, and as quickly as possible.
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