"there's a spark in you"

Just wanted to throw something positive and fun up on the blog on this Sunday night. While it may sound silly, we talk about empowerment, and while I was listening to a different song on YouTube, the Katy Perry song, Firework, showed up as a recommended song. If you watch the video, and listen to the lyrics, it's not just a poppy, catchy song, it has real meaning behind it. Watching it was watching media that spoke to males and females, and told them it's Ok to be you, because you, no matter who you are, you have a spark in you. One of the characters in the video was male, at a party, and seemed alone, but got up, and found his spark, and felt comfortable to go kiss another male. Another character, a female, was at a pool party (which I can say as a female was/is always a stress filled thing, even though it's supposed to be fun) and while her friend was calling her to come in the pool, she shook her head - then, she stripped to her underwear, jumped in the pool and fireworks burst out of her chest when she came up for air. I know this is so much different than what we typically talk about and discuss in class, but one of my other professors at Korbel always says that while our studies focus on the serious things, the difficult and hard things to learn about, we have to continue to laugh, find humor and keep smiling. So - check the video out, and hope it makes you smile, and maybe even dance a little :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGJuMBdaqIw