Dreams

            Teenagers following their dream are absolutely amazing because now a day’s all you have is another person trying to bring others down for their actions of doing what makes them happy and pursuing their dreams in life. For example young kids inspiring to be music artists, you have people saying everybody wants to be a rapper but technically that is far from correct. You have a lot of teens wanting to be professional athletes, lawyers, doctors, and etc… Some want to go to college and pursue higher education, while others look at the military as their way to some type of success and financial security. You should always remember just be yourself and never let anyone else influence you. You are you based on the decisions you should have decided on yourself and not because somebody else decided you should pursue a specific thing. Just like parent always say you should strive to be a millionaire when that isn’t always the case because most people would just prefer to be the average parent in life with a low public profile. When if you strive to be known worldwide you add a public image to yourself and constantly get judged on your actions and how others are influenced by you. Whatever you may choose just make sure the decision is right for you.

Cemetery

            I went to the cemetery last weekend to clear my head and just get away from the negativity in the world and it greatly helped it’s something I’m definitely going to do more often. I couldn’t believe how you would expect for it to be a sad and gloomy experience but it really brightens your day because it helps you realize that the person you’re going to visit lived an amazing life rather it was cut short, or they lived until 88. It’s a simple fact that they would want you to be happy and not be depressed and mourning over their death still. My mom being long gone is still kind of hard for me to let soak in but I went and looked at her grave for almost an hour and I was probably at one of my most happiest times in my entire life just realizing that without her I would not be here today. I was able to just sit back and relax and reminisce over the few good times that I could remember of my mom and I having. The cemetery is just a completely quiet and soul touching place for anyone to go with a negative mind state at any time.

Life

                Life has hardships that people occur on a daily basis every day. From losing a loved one, losing your job, getting injured, or just having a bad day. This is something that is meant for us to help us develop our natural strength that we are capable of. For instance my mom and grandma passing away was an way for me to notice that I’m stronger than others in a particular way so I’m able to deal with the everyday pain of my relatives passing. Losing a job is terrible when you have a family to provide for, bills to pay, gas to buy, and etc… Life just isn’t as easy as we would like it to be. Some look at life as just a walk in the park and they really don’t care about it as much as they should. I was one the type to do that I really never cared about life after the two hard deaths in my family so I started doing whatever I wanted. Getting in a lot of trouble at school, being disobedient towards my father and doing what I feel is best for me. Life is pretty much a phase until you pass on and hopefully have a beautiful rebirth.

Money

            Money changes people I really can’t take when people get a few dollars in their pocket, and they think they’re a new person. People think money makes the world go round it’s just a nice thing to have in life it does make things easier. I’m not really a materialistic type of person so money doesn’t really mean a lot to me I rather see other people happy from me giving them money then for me to just keep it myself. The more money you have the more problems you have because people get upset if you don’t want to loan them any money or buy them things. Whenever I get money in my pocket I put it straight in the bank and just let it be. I don’t let people know how much money I have I rather let everyone think I’m a broke senior in high school who keeps to himself. What do you guys think about the situation I’m talking about? Money is not everything and that’s what people just don’t seem to get people constantly get bullied, robbed, and killed over the money they have it’s simply not right I wish people would get their heads on straight and think about the actions they choose.

Violence

            Violence is really escalating to scary and dangerous levels something really needs to be done. In less than two weeks a 3 year old boy, a 17 year old teen, & another kid were all killed. All these innocent people were killed simply due to hate crimes or people simply being careless. Incidents like this just eat away at my insides like how can you do something as terrible and live with yourself? The case for example of young man Trayvon Martin is absolutely terrible how his life was cut short by a man who simply had nothing but hate in his heart. I can only imagine the pain his friends and family must be feeling right now. The three year old was hit and killed by a stray bullet. He was doing nothing but outside playing just enjoying the nice weather. What kinds of things do you guys feel could be done to help stop this violence going on? Leave positive responses on how you feel about the situation and about how it might of affected you in any way if it possibly happened to do so. These are just a couple of the heartbreaking events that have touched me lately.

Music

Music is a very powerful persuader in many people’s lives it can be negative or sometimes positive. Music helps me cope with stress and disbelief. With an example being my mom passing away when I was young child. Songs that bring the good out of a negative situation are songs I tend to listen to the most. The song Dear Mama by Tupac Shakur; really helps me hold back my true feelings of anger on why my mother was taken away from me at such a young age. I’ve also realized that this was done to bring out strength inside of me if God didn’t believe I could handle the pain he wouldn’t have did it. So in a lot of 2Pac’s songs he improvises on why he believes God makes a lot of the decisions he does. So listening to him really helps me think positive about a lot of things & not the negativity how I usually look at things. Music is a great motivator for me and others. I honestly would be a nervous wreck without the comfort of music at my press of a finger. How does music help you notice things or come to grips with certain things that may be going on in your life? Leave positive responses please.

School

            School and work can be too stressful things in life. Trying to balance both of them at the same time can be a hard pill to swallow. Going to school Monday – Friday from 7:50 to 2:18 and then working 6 days a week makes it real tough to stay on top of things at school. My ethic at work has been real tacky and lazy as well. I try my best to stay on top of things as well as I can but it’s all real stressful trying to keep things put together but the bond I had on the things has greatly weakened. So I tried to cut my hours down at work but that didn’t work it helped out a bit, I improved my grades at school but then my paychecks started getting smaller and smaller. My school works come first before anything though so I decided yesterday to just quit the job in all so I can completely provide my focus on school and school only nothing else. I wonder what other things I could have done to help me keep my job but stay up on my work in school. Leave positive responses please and thank you.

Focus

Do any of you have a bad habit that makes it hard for you to concentrate? One thing that makes it hard for me to concentrate is when people constantly bother me when I’m actually trying to do work. I think I’m pretty gifted at the things I do, but I get threw off topic pretty easy. I need to develop a better focus on thing. I can start one thing but before I finish that I move on to another project. My short term focus really holds me back in school and is one of the reasons why I no longer have my job at Gold Star because I couldn’t keep my focus long enough so I decided it would be best for me to just go ahead and move on from the job. So take me as a prime example on what not addressing your problems ahead of time can cause. You can lose something totally good that you have by not coming clean with your problems. Having a crowd of people around you when you are trying to get something done is also a habit you should want to break. So I suggest you guys and gals take this information in mind and compare your focus and ability to stay on task to some of the things I said.