One of the highlights of my week is on Friday night when I get all set to tune in to "Blue Bloods". It is a show that comes on Friday night at 9:00 on CBS. I love it. It has Tom Selleck, it has family stuff, and it has a bit of action. The characters are great. I love them all. Last Friday night was a treat because it kept getting preempted for the NCAA games. There is a character by the name of Nicky. She is Tom Selleck's granddaughter. Her mom is an assistant District Attorney. Selleck is the NY Police Commissioner. The family name is Reagan, and they are very proud to be Irish. There was something that happened on the show that has really stuck with me. Nicky is a high school student attending private school. The scene is set in the cafeteria during lunch time. All of a sudden the phones of every one in the cafeteria receives a pix/text. The picture happens to be a very less than modest "self picture" of the friend that Nicky is sitting with. Immediately all of the students start giving her friend a very bad time. Nicky sits by, afraid to stand up for her friend. Her friend runs off in tears. Nicky is feeling very badly about not "being there" for her friend. She confides in her Uncle Jamie (Jamie is a rookie policeman that gave up being a Harvard trained lawyer to join the "family business"). Nicky is expressing her feelings of guilt and remorse, and Jamie says to her, "Do you know what your grandpa would say to you?" She replies that he would be so disappointed in her, and that she hadn't acted like a "Reagan". He says, "Nope, he would say 'IT'S WHAT WE DO NEXT THAT COUNTS'." Jamie then investigates and discovers that Nicky's friend sent the text herself to get attention. Nicky goes to see her friend and tells her that Jamie has traced the text. Her friend is upset, but Nicky interrupts her to say that he discovered that whoever sent it was a geek genius and there is a firewall and it cannot be traced. Her friend understands what Nicky is trying to say. She goes on to say that she knows what she did wasn't "normal". At that point Nicky tells her that they are in high school so "who is normal?", and then she says, "besides IT'S WHAT YOU DO NEXT THAT COUNTS".
Words to live by.
3 comments:
So insightful, that Blue Bloods show!
oh my word!!! i have been thinking about that same quote all week after i saw the show!! In fact i even gave Spence a little mini lesson on it.
Thanks for introducing me to the show.
Ah, blue bloods. I think the only reason I watch is because I think of when I came up to Utah and we would just sit and watch them all night. Love all the lessons, too:)
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