"Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life." Denis Waitley

As the semester kicks in to full swing and everyone begins going to their site it becomes apparent that we all are extremely busy. Our days become packed with classes, volunteering, studying, eating, sleeping (although we never can get enough), and spending time with friends (to keep ourselves sane.) Some weeks are worse than others, all the work that we've been putting aside because we have sooo much time to do that and suddenly it's due. I am extremely guilty of this. I am the first to admit that I have a terrible procrastination problem. When we hit one of these weeks where everything seems to be due it's easiest to start putting things that aren't quite as urgent on the back burner. Things like blogging and logging and weekly meetings seem like an inefficient use of time and it's tempting to not blog or not show up for that two hour meeting. However, we must hold eachother accountable for doing everything we have agreed to. It often feels like the only time I see a lot of you is during our meetings and extra volunteer activities. If any of you didn't show up I would be upset that I did not get to catch up on how everything was going. I would also be concerned about why you were unable to come.

Not everyone on campus is as lucky as we are. Everyone in Bonner is here for eachother. It's definitely a family-like atmosphere where when one of us falls the rest are right there to help them back up. Many people on campus do not have such a fantastic network of really awesome people that are always there for them.

I saw this quote and I think it's pretty applicable to our accountability. It's going to be easy to not show up at your site because you were up really late and it would be awesome to take a nap. The hard part is when you show up for your next scheduled day and have to face everyone you have let down.
"It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities."
- Sir Josiah Stamp