High school is scary when you haven't thought about it. But I've been thinking about it since third grade, I've planned my future and I am determine to follow through with it. I graduate 8th grade in just a couple months and then I'm heading off to Trinity. I am leaving everything I have ever known and moving forward. I'm going in blind. I am going to be vulnerable, but would it be so bad? Isn't it good to start off new?
When you first start high school, your parents tell you to just be yourself. But what if yourself isn't good enough? I enter high school with this thought in my head. I don't fully know if I believe it, but I consider it. Sure, I have all IB classes (AP), except for math because its not really my strong subject...yikes. And sometimes I'm outgoing and antisocial because I get nervous. I think way to into some things, but only because I'm mortified. Embarrassed that maybe I won't be ready for high school. But I'm going to push the negativity to the back of my mind.
I have come to the conclusion that no one is ever really ready to start high school no matter how much you have planned it all out. There are going to be obstacles that are going to make you second guess or hide in the shadows. I dont want to hide. I am going to be who I am and if that's not good enough, then too bad. I am entering a new world but only I can determine what I do with it.
As a child, there are some things you wish you can do but seem so surreal. It doesn't seem possible. People tell us as we get older that we don't have the power or ability to do this or that, but when we're younger they tell us to reach for the stars for it is the limit. What was the difference of having a dream then vs now? When you are a child, adults tell us that we can be anything we set our minds to and that we have the power to make our dreams come true. As a teen, the message changes, adults tell us that we need to be more "realistic" about what we want to do in life. Then, by the time the child goes from a child to a teen to an adult, the world spins upside down. We are expected to have our lives "together," and automatically begin the cycle of "normality" built by our system. But what if we break the idea of "normal" and do what we want. What if we just saw what the world has to offer before making a decision?
"Desire, Burning Desire Is Basic To Acvhieving Anything Beyond the Ordinary," said by Joseph B. Withlin. This quote is one sentence, but with a meaning that can change ones perspective. We are all innovative. An instance would be that I want to travel the world. I want to travel with only a certain amount of money that I could spend per location. I want to backpack around the world basically. I want to write and take pictures of what I see and experience what there is in the world that no one else has seen. I want to view life in a new perspective but I want to do it on my own. I want to know what does the world have to offer?
Spring break. How can I describe my spring break? Hmmm. It's gonna take a while to write about all that happened, but I'll cut it short. My break was filled with excitement, boredom, and more boredom. I spent most of my time watching Gilmore Girls on Netflix which I'm really into because it is just an awesome show. I promise that if you watch Gilmore Girls then you won't be disappointed.
As you can see so far, I pretty much watched Netflix the whole time, but I also spent most of my days with my cousin as well. Everyday I picked her up and we just hung out. We were very meticulous though about what we do after I picked her up, which was getting food and trying not to get followed by her friends. But, now that I look back on my spring break, it wasn't all that exciting and I'm sorry that this blog is really boring. My spring break was boring too.
Life Is Beautiful is an outstanding movie. It is about how a man and woman become to love each other and start a family, but they end up in a concentration camp. The movie stays true to what happened during that time, how the people were treated, and why it happened. The movie is humorous, but realistic.
Life Is Beautiful, is filled with humor. The humor is created by the main character because in the concentration he hides the reality from his son by saying that it's just a "game". It is hopeful, but dark. The articles and poems relate to the movie very much. They relate because even though the father isolates his son from the realitythe son sort of has a funny feeling about the situation. This is similar to the poems because the children knew what was happening but were hopeful.
As I watched the movie, it didn't really catch my full attention until it got a little deeper into the plot. This movie, even though it was about the holocaust does portray how life is indeed beautiful. For example, they go to parties and operas. Also, it portrays a fantasy to make Joshua think it is just a game rather than seeing the nasty reality. This movie is a 9/10 stars due to its little hints of romance, comedy, sorrow, etc. I would watch it again.
