Third Watch...
Yeah so not only do I have way too much time on my hands but I think I have found my calling .. and I don't even mean something I'm good at .. at least I'm not yet .. but I at least found something that I can be completely passionate about, and I find myself just dreaming that I could be doing that all day .. and just my luck, I can't get into it for nearly 4 months. I have always loved some of the sitcoms on TV like Law & Order and variations of it, ER, and now Third Watch. Oddly enough even before I joined EMS, those were the only shows I felt were worth watching. Tonight was no different, but I was watching Third Watch was about firefighters that were called to a fire .. how surprising huh?? ... well this fire was basically nothing .. but three squads were sent. Because the building was nearly a dead zone and one of the radios wasn't working correctly, they didn't get a line up to the fire in time, and the fire spread. Throughout the night, the fire spread throughout the entire building, eventually with the building caving in on itself. In the show .. that fire killed 3 firefighters. As I sit there watching all of this happen, as I start to feel something, as if it were a real story, and I was watching it happen, I snapped back to reality (don't get into the lecture of me having to separate myself from my TV shows) and I quickly realized that there are people that do this kinda thing everyday, and they put their lives on th eline to save a couple more. That is when I felt proud to be part of the EMS, I know the show was about the fire department and not a college EMS station, but it amounts to the same thing, there will eventually be a call that I go on, be it with URI EMS, SKEMS, or Charleston (the later two if I plan to furhter my work) where I may have to go on a call which I have no idea if something will happen and I could possibly risk my life to save someone elses, but just the fact that when I do get a call, I am part of a team whose only misson is to save someone's life. I think that God has called me to do this, at least for now. Who knows, maybe you might see me change my career objective, but I don't think I'm called to go that far. BUt while I was sitting here, realizing that I couldn't be happier with a job than with the one I have waiting for me when I get back to school, I found this ... I want to hear what you guys think of it, give me your honest input, whatever little it may be... even if you hate it.
An EMS Prayer
As I perform my duty Lord
Whatever be the call,
Help to guide and keep me safe
From dangers big and small.
I want to serve and do my best
No matter what the scene,
I pledge to keep my skills refined,
My judgement quick and keen.
This calling to give of my self
Most do not understand,
But I stand ready all the time
To help my fellow man.
To have the chance to help a child
Restore his laugh with glee,
A word of thanks I might not hear,
But knowing is enough for me.
The praise of men is fine for some,
But I feel truly blessed,
That you oh Lord have chosen me
To serve in EMS
An EMS Prayer
As I perform my duty Lord
Whatever be the call,
Help to guide and keep me safe
From dangers big and small.
I want to serve and do my best
No matter what the scene,
I pledge to keep my skills refined,
My judgement quick and keen.
This calling to give of my self
Most do not understand,
But I stand ready all the time
To help my fellow man.
To have the chance to help a child
Restore his laugh with glee,
A word of thanks I might not hear,
But knowing is enough for me.
The praise of men is fine for some,
But I feel truly blessed,
That you oh Lord have chosen me
To serve in EMS