High School is hard, like really hard. Going through eight classes a day to after school sports and activities, and then sometimes working a job gets to be too much sometimes. How I have managed to maintain A's and some B's along with being involved school and working at my job, is beyond my knowledge of how I have survived through it. In order to maintain this life you either got to give up your social life, or sleep and I have given up on sleep. Although life and school is tough there's some ways to be a successful student. The biggest tip I could give is prioritize your time well. Figure out what you need to do for the day and plan it out. Speaking of planning it, writing in a daily planner can help you keep on track with the craziness that the day brings, Other than study all the time, and pay attention to class there's not a whole lot you can do beside better yourself as a student. I think the biggest key to have when becoming a successful student is not caring about others and just focusing on yourself is the biggest help factor in becoming a successful student.
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Painting yourself as a superhero to a crazy creature and all in between takes a lot of creativeness and time. This is exactly what Lex does in her work on youtube. Not only was youtube the reason I started special effects makeup but to be more specific youtuber, Madeyewlook, was the reason I started to look into more creative options as a career. She is such a creative person and her personality is something you always want to be around. Earlier in life she was diagnosed with type one diabetes at the age of 13, it was hard for her to continue doing her work like nothing ever happened, but she did and that’s the reason I look up to her. Looking at all she has done with her life gives me hope, and gives me the motivation to go after my dreams. After seeing her be so successful with her work on youtube and supporting organizations with selling her own merchandise makes me feel that I can do what she does and be successful at it too. For awhile I lacked creativity, in fact for a long time I didn’t see myself as a creative person at all. Lex made me realize that I can’t focus on how to make something look creative but that I need to focus on how to create something that has never been seen before, and that’s the key to being more creative. Creativity is something that cannot be taught by sitting in a classroom listening to a professor, but it is something that is learned throughout your life. Many teenage girls put quotes as their caption on Instagram, but do they actually live by them? I'm not one to live and put my life on certain quotes but there are a few that I not necessarily live by but I do refer to often. "Just because my path is different, doesn't mean I'm lost." This quote honestly means a lot to me because I chose a career path that many people don't even know about until you tell them. So many people have told me that I won't make it, that the field is competitive. I completely understand the percentage of me making it big, I'm not lost in my own way I like a challenge and this challenge is perfect for me. "Just can't live that negative way, make way for the positive day." Bob Marley has some of the amazing quotes but by far this one is my favorite. I use to live in a negative light, never giving someone he time of day. After I realized that not everything has to be negative I looked on the positive, now I surround myself with positive vibes and to not let anyone take my positivity away from me. Like I said before, I don't have many quotes to live by but those two spoke the most to me when I came across them. The quotes made me realize what I had in life, and should never take life for granted.
"Class of 2018, please move your tassels from the left to the right." Those 13 words have been the words I've been waiting for ever since I walked into the high school building as a 14 year old Freshman. Dreaming of the moment for forever and now in a short month it will happen. 23 more days of actual school before us seniors get to call it the best four years of our lives, or so we think. 23 more days of amazing opportunities we can get to better ourselves. 23 more days of saying hi to the kids in your school that you don't get to talk to everyday. 23 more days of dealing with annoying homework and cramped classrooms. Only 23 more days until we are finished with the first chapter of our lives. Looking back at everything I've done these past 4 years and thinking either I'm really stupid for doing that or thinking hey I'm not that dumb. For me personally I don't think I will miss this school, however I will miss talking to my friends in between periods and being late for class. I will miss those stupid presentations teachers make us give but end up laughing hysterically because our friends are making fun of us. I won't miss much but I know for sure that I will miss the crazy times thinking my life was going to fall apart because I couldn't get a certain font on my paper. Thinking that these past four years were hard was an understatement, and I'm not talking about the school work but we had to deal with everything mentally and physically. At the end of the day 23 days is 23 days, but I will make sure that each one of these days I won't waste because no matter how much I think I won't miss it, I will.
Many people talk about their favorite things as being materialistic things such as clothes, a phone, or art, but my favorite thing isn't any of those let alone anything close to those things. My favorite thing in the world is the weather transitioning from Winter to Spring, and Spring into Summer. Everyone loves Summer weather but in order to have Summer weather you have to Spring and Winter before. Don't get me wrong I love Summer and hate Winter and even though the season itself is amazing I think the transition into the season is way better. Even though I live in Nebraska and when you think it's Spring you'll get a blizzard the next day I still love warming up to the warm weather. Going on a run or walk on the first day of Spring is probably the most rewarding thing to me because I get to break out of the house and stop being bundled up all the time and go out and enjoy the weather. I'm not saying I'm a very active person because trust me I'll sit on the couch and eat a cheeseburger any day, but sometimes it's refreshing to get out and get breath of fresh air. I honestly think Spring is my favorite season because of the flowers, and the thunderstorms and the weather is just amazing because it's not too hot and has a little breeze which makes for the perfect weather.
Let's be real I'm not the person to be producing a TV show, if anything I'd be the one helping with hair and makeup. Although if the opportunity were to come up I think I'd have to produce a TV show like none other. I have always been drawn to the wacky fictional family TV series like Shameless, or Weeds. My TV show would be like that but ten times crazier, even though you can't really get any more crazy than the Gallagher family. The family will live in Las Vegas, Nevada where there are eight kids total with two moms and two dads. Basically the plot line is that this couple, Mike and Ann got happily married at 17 because at 16 Anne got pregnant with the first child, Zane. They weren't that amazing at being parents and after the eighth kid they finally realized that they didn't love each other in fact they were in love with the neighbors, but the twist is that Anne fell in love with Patrica and Mike fell in love with Adam. Let's not forget that they have been cheating on each other for quite sometime now and about 3 of their kids are not Mikes. The eight kids; Zane who is now 16, Bobby who is 15, Ashley who is 13, Candice who is 11, Carly who is 10, Max who is 8, Timmy who is 6, David who is 3, and Brittney who is 1. The last three kids are not Mikes but in fact the principles kids at the school that all the kids go to. The other kids get in trouble all the time at school because they're either smoking in the bathroom, bullying other kids, cheating, hooking up in the bathroom, or coming to school drunk, oh and let's not forget about the constant cussing towards classmates and teachers. So with the kids home life being a disaster their school life is just as bad. Although the craziness happens all throughout the show the Millers always make time to catch up on each others lives even if it means fighting about it. Now I don't know about you but this show is already crazy but it's going to get even crazier every episode, so tune in for the very first showing of "Being the Millers. "
About a year and a half ago my schools One-Act put on a play called Sweeney Todd. I was the hair and makeup captain and it was my job to find out how to do a slit throat. This challenge was hard and what was even harder was finding out how to do it on stage. I came across a video on Youtube demonstrating it. After multiple attempts I finally figured out how to do it. After doing it the first and the second time you can definitely see the difference. After experimenting with all of this I found out that I really love what I did and that I could see my self doing it for a long time. Doing special effects makeup has been my escape from reality and whenever I do it I feel like I'm actually good at something and I haven't felt that in a long time. I'm also glad to say that I will get the proper training when I enter the Tom Savini's Special makeup Effects program this coming fall. Getting the proper education for this will help so much and help me reach my goal to work on movies in Hollywood. I love doing this so much even though I have been distance from it lately I plan on getting back into it and expanding my imagination even more with more gory looks with more blood than ever before. Everyone has items on their bucket list, but how many of those things have they actually done? Instead of me telling you about what's on my bucket list I'll tell you about I've done and accomplished. First thing is that I went to an actual Broadway Musical, Aladdin. I was in New York City at the time and we had seats close to the front. The Experience was amazing. Now I'm sure everyone has seen or heard of the show dance moms. Abbey Lee has studios in Pittsburgh, and L.A. When I was in California I had to visit. The studio itself was actually smaller than I thought it was, but I sat where all the moms sit and went into the studio that all the dancers dance in. Also when I was in California I went to In and Out, a burger joint whose famous for their animal style burgers and fries. It was so good there's sometimes where I want to get on a plane and go out there to just eat. Another memorable thing I accomplished was winning dance nationals for clogging in 2008. It was in Chicago, IL and while I was there I visited the Sears Tower, and the Magic Bean. So while I was there I knocked out multiple things off my bucket list, including getting lost in a big city. So while I have done some awesome things, I still have a lot to go. My bucket list is no where near done, because I'm always adding to it so the adventure never ends.
Whenever I looked at people in the past I always noticed something was off, later to find out they had depression. I grew up a happy child and never would I have thought that I would be in that persons shoes battling depression. What worried me most is that I slipped into depression without knowing why or what caused it, I just started to noticed that I wasn't my normal happy self making jokes at inappropriate times. Instead I always had to overthink everything and sometimes not think at all. I never accepted it as depression because I didn't want to think that I was sad all the time, when in reality I was just in a funk that I didn't know how to get out of. I never told anyone what was going on, whenever they would ask me if I was fine I would say "yea, just tired" and they'd leave me alone. That was the thing, I liked being alone I wanted to be alone I didn't want anyone bothering me all the time. The thing that really got to me is when I would open up to someone and they would just say I'm paranoid or I'm overreacting to everything which for a long time I thought was true. Never once did I seek for help I thought I could overcome it on my own. Once I realized that I couldn't do it on my own I started to come out of it. With the help of many friends and family and life opportunities I have successfully gotten out of depression. Don't get me wrong I slip into a funk once in awhile but I know to overcome it. I definitely think that depression helped me to be where I am today and helped me value who I have in life. I always try to find myself in a happy place which always helps me. Lately I haven't had a reason to find a happy place because of the people I associate with, I'm always in a happy place now.
Life is a tricky thing to figure out. Are we supposed to go to college? Or is marriage a necessity in life? Life isn't about worrying about the future or what life has to offer you because you can never really control your life and how it goes. What you can do control is what you value in life. Many people go throughout life not having a care in the world while others are constantly going and worrying about what's going to happen next. When you look at it life is a beautiful thing, so why take it for granted? People often don't realize that they have it made in life, growing up in a stable home, eating three meals a day, getting all they need for life when in reality most people don't have these luxuries. Everyday I see people struggle to get enough money for a meal or to get their electricity on. Some people have to work very hard to get things in life while for others they just have to snap their fingers and there it is. It's also not just about getting everything you need in life. A small percentage of people become diagnosed with a deadly disease like cancer, ALS, and others. I personally see people struggle with their family going through this and it's heartbreaking. To know that people don't know if they'll wake up the next morning and constantly battling something that is causing them pain makes me really appreciate what I have in life. Not everyone will see this post nor will they really read it for that matter but what I'm trying to say is that many of us have it easy in life and we like to take certain things in life for granted. I know that I personally take many things for granted and I don't even realize it until I see someone struggle with it. So to go off of that I'm very thankful for what I have in life and everyone should take a minute to think about what they have in life and realize how lucky you are to have what you have, even if you don't have it all. There's always something in life to be thankful for.
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