The things that are important to me are my family and friends. For most of them I would give up anything. I get very close to my friends, especially my best friends. It is going to be sad that most of them will be going away to college and I will not be able to see them for a while.
The other thing is family. I do not think I would have gotten anywhere without my mother. She is the one that has been pushing me the whole time through school and even in soccer. I was proud to make her happy when I handed her every single accptance letter from all the colleges I applied to. She is brutally honest and will tell me how it is, even if I do not agree with her most of the time. My mother has been great to me and I want to make her the proudest mother in the whole world.
The one thing that I do not have yet but is important to me is my future. I am going to keep pushing myself until I succeed. I have always told myself that failure is not an option and is not taken lightly at anytime. I would like to make it clear that I would not be this ambitious without my family and friends. I want to be able to share my success in the future with those who have been there for me through it all. I take a look back in the past and the memories I have are everyone telling me to keep pushing yourself and when you think you have gone as far as you can, you are only half way there.
Through my high school career, I did not find my grades to be of much importance. I found that as long as I got into all the schools I wanted to, I would be fine. Now that I am coming out of high school, I feel it is important to buckle down and start working hard. This is the final level of school for me and I do not want to ruin anything. I will be playing soccer at the college I will be attending, I hope to make the team and possibly be a starter. Soccer is important to me, but I am the type of person that thinks with the glass half full. If I do not make this team, it may benefit me in my grades in college. College should be a great experience and I hope to make new friends that will keep my mind off the ones I miss. Don't get me wrong, I will never forget the ones I leave behind, including you Mr. Mannion, I am going to miss you!
Sunday, May 27, 2012
Monday, May 21, 2012
Courage
When ever I hear the word courage, I really have to stop and think about what it actually is. I tend to get confused about its real definition because I think of courage as a word that has many definitions and meanings. I am actually glad that there is a blog about courage because now I get to express what I feel that courage is all about. And maybe and I can finally figure out what courage is. So I will begin to explain what courage is, in my honest opinion.
Is courage chasing a bank robber down the street until he is caught? To be honest, I do not believe that this is a courageous act. You are putting yourself in danger to catch a criminal just so you can become a local hero. If he stole your money and you wanted to get it back, I can consider that courageous because you have a reason to chase him down. Other than that, this act wouldn't fall under the category of courage. Is courage shooting down an enemy plane from a hideout on a mountaintop? Now this act, in my opinion, is very courageous. I believe this because you must be very talented to shoot down a plane like that and you must have tons of courage to accomplish something like that. There are many things that people consider courageous in their eyes, but others may find it to be the opposite. These two acts fall under that category because they can go either way. It is just the way people look at it.
Courage can be other things as well. A physically challenged person making her way down the street is a courageous act in my opinion. Some people are very embarrassed to have a disability and they tend to hideout from others so they are not made fun of. It hurts to say this, but people sometimes do make fun of others who have disabilities. I think it is very wrong for them to do that because it was not the persons choice to be physically challenged. Is courage a father working a twelve hour day in a horrible job to pay the rent and feed his children? This is one of the most courageous things you could ever do in my opinion. You are doing whatever you can to put food on the table for the one's that you love. You would rather not work all day, but you have too in order to survive. And the fact that the job is horrible shows your courage right there. It is a horrible job and most likely doesn't pay that much. But you keep on working so you can feed your children and pay rent. There's nothing more courageous than that.
A courageous person does not have to just be an adult. There are kids out there that have so much courage. You may even find a child who is more courageous than an adult. Animals are also courageous. The example of the father working twelve hours a day falls in the same category as an animal. The mother/father animal has to go out there and find food for it's babies so they can survive. So the answer to the question is that anybody can have courage.
Courage is when you show no fear, and are willing to put others first so that things are made right. Courage permits one to face danger and difficulties without fear. Do I know anyone in my life whom I'd define as courageous? In my opinion, the most courageous people in this world are people in the military. They show no fear and risk their lives for our country to make things right. I can't see what would top that, and I am pretty sure that others agree with me.
Is courage chasing a bank robber down the street until he is caught? To be honest, I do not believe that this is a courageous act. You are putting yourself in danger to catch a criminal just so you can become a local hero. If he stole your money and you wanted to get it back, I can consider that courageous because you have a reason to chase him down. Other than that, this act wouldn't fall under the category of courage. Is courage shooting down an enemy plane from a hideout on a mountaintop? Now this act, in my opinion, is very courageous. I believe this because you must be very talented to shoot down a plane like that and you must have tons of courage to accomplish something like that. There are many things that people consider courageous in their eyes, but others may find it to be the opposite. These two acts fall under that category because they can go either way. It is just the way people look at it.
Courage can be other things as well. A physically challenged person making her way down the street is a courageous act in my opinion. Some people are very embarrassed to have a disability and they tend to hideout from others so they are not made fun of. It hurts to say this, but people sometimes do make fun of others who have disabilities. I think it is very wrong for them to do that because it was not the persons choice to be physically challenged. Is courage a father working a twelve hour day in a horrible job to pay the rent and feed his children? This is one of the most courageous things you could ever do in my opinion. You are doing whatever you can to put food on the table for the one's that you love. You would rather not work all day, but you have too in order to survive. And the fact that the job is horrible shows your courage right there. It is a horrible job and most likely doesn't pay that much. But you keep on working so you can feed your children and pay rent. There's nothing more courageous than that.
A courageous person does not have to just be an adult. There are kids out there that have so much courage. You may even find a child who is more courageous than an adult. Animals are also courageous. The example of the father working twelve hours a day falls in the same category as an animal. The mother/father animal has to go out there and find food for it's babies so they can survive. So the answer to the question is that anybody can have courage.
Courage is when you show no fear, and are willing to put others first so that things are made right. Courage permits one to face danger and difficulties without fear. Do I know anyone in my life whom I'd define as courageous? In my opinion, the most courageous people in this world are people in the military. They show no fear and risk their lives for our country to make things right. I can't see what would top that, and I am pretty sure that others agree with me.
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Advice to a Younger me
Giving advice to myself two or three years ago I think is tough. to do because of how much I enjoyed my life over the last few years, and I do not think there is anything I regret doing or regret not doing. I mean I feel like I have not learned that much that would change things in my life. I have never made a decision in the last few years that I really had to think about. I am a safe kind of guy and I do not really like to change things and I like to keep things the same and not change the status quo. The one thing I know I would tell myself is that freshmen year make sure that I buy lunch everyday. My freshmen I had free lunch the entire time and I HAD NO IDEA. I found out THE LAST DAY OF SCHOOL. I was devastated when I found out. I didn't buy lunch freshmen year because in 8th grade I bought lunch once and they charged me for two some reason and it got me really upset and I didn't since that. So me having free lunch my freshmen year and knowing it would have been the greatest thing ever.
With the social groups I think that I have made the right choices. I really do not care who you are I have no problem being your friend. Popularity does not mean anything to me so I think I made the right choices and that I would just tell myself to keep doing what your doing. Nothing traumatic has happened in my life at this point so there is no advice that I would have o get to myself except just to be ready because at any moment anything can happen. Academically though I would have to give a lot of advice like what classes to take and which one to take, espically my senior year because I made many mistakes. But the main advice I would have to give would be just to make sure that I do all of my work that I am assigned on time because I have a big problem with getting my work in and getting it done on time.
The other advice I would give myself would have to do with sports. I would tell myself to become goalie my freshmen year instead of playing the field because of how much less running I would have to do and how much more fun soccer would have done. I also would have told myself to play basketball. Even though I am not that good at it, it is still a lot of fun and I know I would have a blast playing it. And because we did not have volleyball my freshmen year I would have told myself to do tennis because now I really like everyone on the team and I know I would of have playing that as well.
Also I would have done the amazing race every year of high school and not just this year.
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Wild Card #2 Volleyball
Volleyball came into my life my Sophomore year of high school. Mr. P was very kind and was able to form a volleyball team for the school. The first year during tryouts my physical was some how not cleared even though I played soccer in the fall. So i forced to sit out the first wee of tryouts. I did not think this would jepordise my chances of making the team, but varsity yes. I only tried out for three days, but I still made the team just liked everyone else who tried out. My name was not on the varsity roster, but I was told I would play JV and sit bench for Varsity. I didn't play at all that year for varsity, I came close to it, but never did. We went 2-8 shockingly that is a good record for a teams first year.
Then last year came and it was a shock to everyone what happened. We lost two starters from the prior year, but we didn't know we would be good, because those to players we lost were are best ones. I became a starter and we have a very young roster with only two seniors on the team. Our conference was the worst conference in the shore last year so beating Barneget and Lacey twice wasn't really hard. Mon Don came close to beating us once last year but we still were able to take them out both times. Manchester was ranked in the top 5 of the shore in the beginning of the year and beating them twice was not going to be easy, beating them once was not going to be easy. The year before this they embarrassed us and we thought they were going to do the same thing. Some how they didn't. The first time we played them it was on their court and we managed to win the first two games of three and that was it. They went by really quickly, and I didn't know we were winning until game point both matches. The second time we played them they were 6-1 in the conference and we were 7-0. So we already won it but they had a chance to as well. We lost the first match but won the last two. So we finished 8-0 in the conference and 10-6 overall.
This year finally came along. We only lost two players and it wouldn't be hard to replace them. Unfortunately we had to players quit before the season and that hurt us even more. Luckily one player wasn't a starter but he was still good have, and we replaced the other with a basketball player who came out this year. Right now we are 5-1 in the conference tied with Lacey. But there is still two weeks left and anything can happen. Hopefully we win the rest of our games and the loose one giving us solo champions of A Central once again.
Then last year came and it was a shock to everyone what happened. We lost two starters from the prior year, but we didn't know we would be good, because those to players we lost were are best ones. I became a starter and we have a very young roster with only two seniors on the team. Our conference was the worst conference in the shore last year so beating Barneget and Lacey twice wasn't really hard. Mon Don came close to beating us once last year but we still were able to take them out both times. Manchester was ranked in the top 5 of the shore in the beginning of the year and beating them twice was not going to be easy, beating them once was not going to be easy. The year before this they embarrassed us and we thought they were going to do the same thing. Some how they didn't. The first time we played them it was on their court and we managed to win the first two games of three and that was it. They went by really quickly, and I didn't know we were winning until game point both matches. The second time we played them they were 6-1 in the conference and we were 7-0. So we already won it but they had a chance to as well. We lost the first match but won the last two. So we finished 8-0 in the conference and 10-6 overall.
This year finally came along. We only lost two players and it wouldn't be hard to replace them. Unfortunately we had to players quit before the season and that hurt us even more. Luckily one player wasn't a starter but he was still good have, and we replaced the other with a basketball player who came out this year. Right now we are 5-1 in the conference tied with Lacey. But there is still two weeks left and anything can happen. Hopefully we win the rest of our games and the loose one giving us solo champions of A Central once again.
Forgiveness
Forgiveness is something that is very hard to gain, as well as give. In certain situations, you could be a person who is asking for forgiveness when you have done something wrong. You could also be the person who has to decide whether or not to forgive that person who has done wrong to you. So as you can see, there are two parts too forgiveness. I feel that forgiveness is a big thing in our lives. We all have fallen under the two parts of forgiveness and believe me, it is not fun at all. We all make mistakes, and the topic of forgiveness comes up. It sucks but in reality, we have to face it when we really do not want to at all.
Should forgiveness be practiced often or once in a while? Well in my honest opinion, forgiveness is different in every single person's life. You could have it every day in your life, or could have it once in a while. It all depends on the mistakes you make in your life or others have made to you. I believe that you should have forgiveness in your life, but you need to be smart with it and not let it affect you down the road. Forgiveness is usually involved with your family, friends and your boyfriend or girlfriend. There should be less forgiveness in my opinion, but not everyone is perfect.
There has been plenty of times in my life where I have practiced forgiveness. I have fallen under both parts of it and I totally agree that it bites the big one. There is the saying out there that many people follow. It is the term forgive and forget. I, along with many others, have followed this rule, but I can say that it has come back to bite me. For example, when a friend or someone I have feelings for betrays me or does something behind my back, I get mad but I quickly forgive them. That is good sometimes, but this allows them to walk all over me because they know I am so vulnerable about it. It makes me look bad because it makes me look like an idiot. I need to man up and take control when someone does something bad to me. Even though I truly am a forgiving person, I need to be more strict about it because it will better myself.
There has also been times where I have fallen under the category for asking for forgiveness. More times than most, I am granted forgiveness. But there are also times where people hold it to me down the line. I think if I did what others have done to me, that would totally work because it will not make you want to betray a person like that every again. People can do or same some pretty mean things, but I think that is because they are caught in the heat of the moment. There has been times where I have said mean things to others and others have said mean things to me. But we realize after that they truly didn't mean it and they are sorry about it.
The only situation where I believe forgiveness is not acceptable is when it comes to cheating or stealing. Once you do one of these things, you're beat in my eyes. Once a cheater or stealer, always a cheater or stealer. There are people out there who forgive everyone for everything. Like I said before, I usually am this type of person, and it is good sometimes but other times it is not good at all. You can't allow someone to walk all over you, you need to take a stand sometimes. You need to forgive them sometimes, and give them a second chance. But you can't allow them to keep doing the same thing over and over again and you forgive ever single time. That doesn't look good on your part. When you forgive everyone for everything yes that is the wise and mature thing to do, but that is all it is. You have to look at it and see what is going to happen when you get older so you don't make the mistakes that will affect you in the long run.
Should forgiveness be practiced often or once in a while? Well in my honest opinion, forgiveness is different in every single person's life. You could have it every day in your life, or could have it once in a while. It all depends on the mistakes you make in your life or others have made to you. I believe that you should have forgiveness in your life, but you need to be smart with it and not let it affect you down the road. Forgiveness is usually involved with your family, friends and your boyfriend or girlfriend. There should be less forgiveness in my opinion, but not everyone is perfect.
There has been plenty of times in my life where I have practiced forgiveness. I have fallen under both parts of it and I totally agree that it bites the big one. There is the saying out there that many people follow. It is the term forgive and forget. I, along with many others, have followed this rule, but I can say that it has come back to bite me. For example, when a friend or someone I have feelings for betrays me or does something behind my back, I get mad but I quickly forgive them. That is good sometimes, but this allows them to walk all over me because they know I am so vulnerable about it. It makes me look bad because it makes me look like an idiot. I need to man up and take control when someone does something bad to me. Even though I truly am a forgiving person, I need to be more strict about it because it will better myself.
There has also been times where I have fallen under the category for asking for forgiveness. More times than most, I am granted forgiveness. But there are also times where people hold it to me down the line. I think if I did what others have done to me, that would totally work because it will not make you want to betray a person like that every again. People can do or same some pretty mean things, but I think that is because they are caught in the heat of the moment. There has been times where I have said mean things to others and others have said mean things to me. But we realize after that they truly didn't mean it and they are sorry about it.
The only situation where I believe forgiveness is not acceptable is when it comes to cheating or stealing. Once you do one of these things, you're beat in my eyes. Once a cheater or stealer, always a cheater or stealer. There are people out there who forgive everyone for everything. Like I said before, I usually am this type of person, and it is good sometimes but other times it is not good at all. You can't allow someone to walk all over you, you need to take a stand sometimes. You need to forgive them sometimes, and give them a second chance. But you can't allow them to keep doing the same thing over and over again and you forgive ever single time. That doesn't look good on your part. When you forgive everyone for everything yes that is the wise and mature thing to do, but that is all it is. You have to look at it and see what is going to happen when you get older so you don't make the mistakes that will affect you in the long run.
Monday, April 16, 2012
Unfinished Business
I do not feel like there is that much unfinished business left in my high school career. I have gave up really on everything and I do not care much for these next two much and I will just be doing what I need to do to pass gym and English so that I can graduate. I do have things that I would like to accomplish, but I really just do not care any more. And I do not set goals in the beginning of the year so that when it is the end of the year and I would not achieve my goal I am not disappointed at all.
If I could start this year over I would without a hesitation. But it would have to start with last year so that i could choose different classes to make my senior year much more relaxed and easier for myself. But for your class though I would have to change a lot of things. I really made this year a lot harder for myself by not reading any of the books, so I would make sure that I would read them so I would do better on the quartiles and all of the papers we have written. The last marking period I started off bad by doing the first three blogs really late. I would of made sure that I did all of the blogs on time to get a better grade. I would like to change that but the way this marking period started it might not happen. I am not sure why I do not do them they are actually really easy, but I guess I am to lazy to them.
I do not look forward to the future. I like to live in the here and now and try not to worry about lays ahead of me. It is really scary just thinking about it. So for future goals I do not have any. If I focus to much on my future my present life will not be as good as it could be, therefore my future would be ruined. And for me being ready for life after high school is not looking good either. High school in my opionion does really nothing to prepare you for the future only to help you. So I am really going to have to wing it and do my best in order to be really for what I will see in a few months. Maybe if I am lucky I will win the lottery and I will not have to worry about any thing and will not have to work. But I am not trying to focus on my future because I am really not looking forward to it at all.
If I could start this year over I would without a hesitation. But it would have to start with last year so that i could choose different classes to make my senior year much more relaxed and easier for myself. But for your class though I would have to change a lot of things. I really made this year a lot harder for myself by not reading any of the books, so I would make sure that I would read them so I would do better on the quartiles and all of the papers we have written. The last marking period I started off bad by doing the first three blogs really late. I would of made sure that I did all of the blogs on time to get a better grade. I would like to change that but the way this marking period started it might not happen. I am not sure why I do not do them they are actually really easy, but I guess I am to lazy to them.
I do not look forward to the future. I like to live in the here and now and try not to worry about lays ahead of me. It is really scary just thinking about it. So for future goals I do not have any. If I focus to much on my future my present life will not be as good as it could be, therefore my future would be ruined. And for me being ready for life after high school is not looking good either. High school in my opionion does really nothing to prepare you for the future only to help you. So I am really going to have to wing it and do my best in order to be really for what I will see in a few months. Maybe if I am lucky I will win the lottery and I will not have to worry about any thing and will not have to work. But I am not trying to focus on my future because I am really not looking forward to it at all.
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Being Mr. Mannion Super Powers Blog
Having super powers is dreamt by every human being. After seeing movies or reading comics, everyone would want to have their own super powers for what ever reason. Everyone wanted to have that secret identity by day until when crime came around to save the world. Or just to be the the hero in the major city which everyone looked up to and loved and wanted to be.
Being able to have super powers is just one of those things that always fascinate people, and it really fascinates me. Always as a kid I would wish to have super powers whether it was on my birthday cake, or shooting star or anything else you could possibly make wishes on. I would always hope that they would come true and I would be a hero in the city which I reside in.
So with that all being said, If you could have one super power what would it be? Or would you want to have more than one power like superman? What would you do with those super powers? Would you use those powers for good or evil? Also it seems every superhero has a coo name, so what would you want your name to be?
Being able to have super powers is just one of those things that always fascinate people, and it really fascinates me. Always as a kid I would wish to have super powers whether it was on my birthday cake, or shooting star or anything else you could possibly make wishes on. I would always hope that they would come true and I would be a hero in the city which I reside in.
So with that all being said, If you could have one super power what would it be? Or would you want to have more than one power like superman? What would you do with those super powers? Would you use those powers for good or evil? Also it seems every superhero has a coo name, so what would you want your name to be?
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