Another Puck Putt

While I missed out on snagging a Bruins autograph during Puck Putt, I did get to spend much of the event walking around with a video camera talking to the youth and mentors who had come to play a round of mini-golf with the pros. You know, its funny -- On paper ensuring youth have positive adult role models, of course, makes a lot of sense. I can advocate for that any day of the week. But it really starts to mean something when you see the way mentors and kids interact.

I interviewed one pair from Big Brothers about why they had each gotten involved in the program and what they thought of it. While they were telling me about how they've gotten to know each other in a short period of time, it struck me how genuinely proud each of them seemed to be of the other. How that pride traveled both ways -from mentee to mentor and back. As they were talking I tried to think about the number of people in my life who made me feel that way, the friendships I had in which the admiration I felt for them brimmed over. It's a pretty cool moment when you remember how many people built you up over your lifetime. It's an even cooler feeling when you realize the potential you have to do that for someone else.