There are few times I enjoy watching television. With my new job I get the pleasure of working overnights in a home that has cable. I wasn't allowed to watch Boy Meets World when it was new but I'm very thankful for re-runs. I really like Mr. Feeny. Just saw this episode this morning and it made me smile.
(You can start at 4:45 min) "How blissful it must be for you to have lived so little and yet already reached your conclusions about the greatest wonder of the universe. Shakespeare wrote plays and sonnets, the Greeks wrote tragedies and comedies; Robert Burns, Emily Dickinson, the Brownings – examined the depths of human emotions and do you know what each one of these poets, playwrights, and philosophers had in common Mr. Matthews? Every one of them was older than 11. Come into my classroom at the beginning of the year and at the end you go and I really don’t know if, in the time we’ve spent together, I have taught you anything! Well this afternoon, Mr. Matthews, you are going to learn something from me. Do I have your attention? I live on the other side of the fence from you Cory and it is impossible not to face in your direction every once in a while and notice the people in the next yard. And through the years I’ve got to know them – it is apparent that they are fine individuals but their real strength comes from being a family. And do you know why they’re a family? Because at one time a man and a woman realized that they loved each other and pursued the unlimited potential of what may come from that love… and here you are. There is no greater aspiration than to have love in our lives, Mr. Matthews. Romeo knew it and died for it. Others know it and prepare salads. And those who don’t know it will sit in detention for the rest of their lives."
