Passions...

Growing up I was a very active child. I never wanted to sit still, actually it felt like I never had the ability to sit still. I was tested for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, which is a facet off of Attention Deficit Disorder (A.D.D.). Turns out I have it, meaning that I get distracted easily, and people would always tell me just focus. However that was never even in my options, I couldn't, so early on in life I was put on Medication to help manage my A.D.D. because it's not a disease or something to be cured it's a learning disability. As I got older and learned what A.D.D.  meant it all started making sense. I could have five different things going on all at once and not have a problem, it wasn't that I wasn't able to focus it was that doing just one thing bored me. I was bored, I wasn't lazy I wasn't confused. I wasn't being taught right, I wasn't being stimulated enough.

Anyways, growing up I would play outside a lot because I had to keep moving, I really had no other choice. My brother is five years older than me, he taught me so much about sports and he taught me a lot about life as well through sports however I don't think he knows he ever did. When you grow up playing sports even if it's just recreational, you learn a lot of life lessons. And so many of those lessons are very valuable to building good character. First when you fall, get back up, try it again, you will never succeed if you don't get back up. There have been many times when we were playing basketball that I would fall and I remember him telling me get back up. Every time I did, every time I fell I got right back up and I still do today. He taught me how to hit a baseball, he would say slice the ham, don't chop it (up and down) and nobody wants a triangle shaped ham, right down the middle. My brother was my hero, he still is, yeah there were a couple of bad times, but what I admire most about him was that even through those hard times he kept getting back up and kept trying.

Life is hard, your going to get knocked down, knocked out of bounds. The point of life is to remember those moments, let those moments drive you, let them push you harder. I adopted a motto not two long ago about 3 years ago, I don't scare easily, and I don't give up. My passion, is working hard, because at the end of the day i'm going to give it everything I've got because that's what I was taught. Give it 110 nothing less.

High School

Growing up is not easy, in fact it is quite scary. I will confess something, I love Disney Channel. I am not ashamed to say it, some of their recent shows teach really good messages to children. I am currently obsessed with Girl Meets World, why? Well each episode has a message to the children and people watching it. They are currently on their third season (ish) and Riley the daughter of Cory and Topanga Mathews from Boy Meets World, and her best friends Maya, Lucas, Farkle, Zay, and Smackle are starting High School. Now onto high school, it's scary when you are coming from middle school, but when it's time to leave it's sad. What happens in those four years, why is it that you go from scared to sad (happy). Well those four years of high school prepare you for something greater, the real world.

In the eighth grade you are at the top of the food chain, your the kings of middle school, (yeah that's from Disney). However in the ninth grade you're not the kings anymore, you have made it back to the bottom of the food chain. It's been seven years since I was a senior in high school. It took me seven years to see how crucial those four years were, ok maybe not seven years. When your in middle school it's like looking through rose colored glasses, everything is peachy your still a kid. High School is the transition between being a kid and being a young adult. Elementary School is put in place to prepare you for Middle School, Middle School prepares you for High School. High School prepares you for everything else that the real world is going to throw at you, whether your ready or not.

Here are some truth's about High School, nobody understands what is going on with them. Everybody is growing up, they are all just as confused as you are. All of your peers are in the same boat as you are, they are all scared confused and lost. However, you may say well they look like they have it all figured out. Here is a little secret, they don't, but they put on a brave face. I look back on my high school years and think about all the people that I looked at and thought wow they really have it all together, and now that we are all older I learned they were in the same boat I was.

Here is the catch if you have friends that have been with you from the very first day of high school, you will look back at those moments and think, wow we stuck together through the biggest storm yet. Friendship is the key to a lot of things in life, if you have friends you have someone to lean on when your scared.

What i'm trying to get at is that High School is not scary it's challenging. It is made to be that way because life is not only challenging it's complex. When you start high school or maybe feel lost in the crowd remember that the "crowd" is just as confused as you are. Remember your growing up, people change, at every age of their life, you change you evolve. Life is a series of decisions to be made it's not how you made/make the decisions it's how you deal with the results. And remember that learning is a never ending process, even if you are no longer in school of any kind you still learn, you learn about people, learn how to do new things. Knowledge is power!!

One last thing, if anyone has any questions of thought provoking comments please share them. I love hearing what other people have to say, and I genuinely just want to help people. I want people to be at peace with growing up, because it's an adventure.