It was the end of our senior year. Grant and I were finally graduating. After Kristin and Tim, our family was waiting for another set of cousins to graduate. Our cake was huge and almost gone thanks to the guys of the family. We were opening presents and when we came to our presents from grandma and grandpa, we were kind of confused. They were just cards. ‘Congrads!” That’s all they wanted to say to us? We said thank you and started to reach for my presents to take to the car. “Oh no dears, that’s not it.” Trying to hide our relief, we followed grandma into the house. The party had been held at Grant’s house because it was where our grandparents raised our parents. We followed Grandma all the way up the stairs to the attic. Grant and I were kind of confused. Why the heck did Grandma bring us up to the attic?
“When you two were born, me and your grandpa decided that we would keep trunks full of things that would happen during your lives and then give them to you when you graduate. Each one is full of things from your childhood and a bunch of things that you will probably think of as junk, but here they are. Now I have to go back down and help your mom’s clean up. Have fun!
Alright, Grandma, lets see what you have in there. We found baby clothes and pictures of us when we were young. Playing with all our cousins on the floor of someone’s home. We were all smiles. We found all our toys that we loved. I even found that little play pizza that I was obsessed with. There were newspaper articles about us involved in our sports and pictures from family things along the years. The pictures of when we were baptized at church. There were tons of things packed in there. We might’ve been up there for a while, but we both came across something in both of our trunks that looked exactly different. It was a scrapbook of me and him. There were pictures of us from birth to last week. It was the greatest thing ever.
When you first look at the trunks, you would hate the present. To us, those trunks reminded us that, it doesn’t matter how far you go in life, we will always have our family to help us through it all. Even if we weren’t the greatest of friends or didn’t hang out that much, we were important to each other, whether we would admit it or not. Its funny how you can’t wait to go off to college, get an awesome job, and have a family and then you realize that the best years of your life were the years when you had your family with you every step of the way. We have both changed a lot, but our family ties and love will always be with us.
Monday, February 25, 2008
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Entry #4 ~ That was Then, This is now
When I was young, I thought that school was pointless, but now that I’m older, I see that it’s not that pointless because there are many reasons why people make us come to school.
They want us to come to school to prep us for when we live on our own. We won’t have our parents with us all the way. We won’t have siblings that we can just yell at for no reason and vent our frustration out on them. We will have to rely on ourselves and have to work at everything we want to get. At school, the teachers don’t just say, “Hey, I like that student so I’m just going to give them an A.” We have to work at it. The people that don’t work hard and don’t really care are going to wish they had when they grow up and don’t have a job, behind on their rent, and having problems in their social life. They grew up not trying and having people help them along the way, so now they will fall apart. If they do have someone to help them through it, that person will get sick and tired of working so hard to help their friend survive and eventually leave them alone.
Also, they want us to have some social life. We meet new friends, lose some, and we will have people who will change our lives and we will never be able to forget them. When we meet new people, we’re kind of scared and so it’s better to learn to hide that feeling for when we go in for an interview and we know no one there. We will have to be able to talk to them like an old friend because usually that’s how you get the job. When we lose friends, it makes us stronger because it means that we have felt pain, and we might know how to handle it better when we get out on our own. And when we meet those people who change our lives, how are you not supposed to not forget them. They made you who you are today and you owe them so much, yet it’s not their fault. It’s kind of like the lyrics of a song from the Broadway musical, Wicked. “Because I knew you, I have been changed for good.”
So who ever said that school wasn’t useful? We use it everyday. We may not use all the math, science, social studies, etc, but we use our experiences with the people there everyday. Let’s face it, there are going to be people around you every single day, and we can’t change that.
They want us to come to school to prep us for when we live on our own. We won’t have our parents with us all the way. We won’t have siblings that we can just yell at for no reason and vent our frustration out on them. We will have to rely on ourselves and have to work at everything we want to get. At school, the teachers don’t just say, “Hey, I like that student so I’m just going to give them an A.” We have to work at it. The people that don’t work hard and don’t really care are going to wish they had when they grow up and don’t have a job, behind on their rent, and having problems in their social life. They grew up not trying and having people help them along the way, so now they will fall apart. If they do have someone to help them through it, that person will get sick and tired of working so hard to help their friend survive and eventually leave them alone.
Also, they want us to have some social life. We meet new friends, lose some, and we will have people who will change our lives and we will never be able to forget them. When we meet new people, we’re kind of scared and so it’s better to learn to hide that feeling for when we go in for an interview and we know no one there. We will have to be able to talk to them like an old friend because usually that’s how you get the job. When we lose friends, it makes us stronger because it means that we have felt pain, and we might know how to handle it better when we get out on our own. And when we meet those people who change our lives, how are you not supposed to not forget them. They made you who you are today and you owe them so much, yet it’s not their fault. It’s kind of like the lyrics of a song from the Broadway musical, Wicked. “Because I knew you, I have been changed for good.”
So who ever said that school wasn’t useful? We use it everyday. We may not use all the math, science, social studies, etc, but we use our experiences with the people there everyday. Let’s face it, there are going to be people around you every single day, and we can’t change that.
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Entry # 3 - Cop, Doctor, Dancer
When I was little, there was this toddler kitchen in the playroom. I used to play dinner and pretend I was a world-known chef. I would watch the Food Network and then run over to the playroom and start using the fake ingredients to make what I had just saw Emeril make on the TV. I would run up to the kitchen and ask my mom if we could bake something. Then I would take my mom’s camera and take pictures of what we made. I love to eat and so whatever we would make, I would wait until it cooled off, then I would eat most of it. I got sick to my stomach a lot, but It was just so good. In my free time, I would grab the cookbooks off the shelf and then un downstairs and take the remote out of my sibling’s hand. As the station turned to channel forty-nine, I would get very excited and hope it was Emeril or the Everyday Italian show. I liked all the others, but those were my favorites.
I still like cooking now, but I’m looking at being a photographer. In my free time now days, I grab my camera, run outside, and take as many pictures as I can. I have also ran a video camera at my cousin’s wedding. Later, my grandma was watching the tape and she asked my cousin what company she had hired to shot the wedding. She was so proud of me. I also took some pictures at the reception. It was the best experience of my life. I really like the college, Illinois Wesleyan University. I would like to play volleyball there, if possible, but photography would not only be a job, but it’s in my heart and always will be.
I still like cooking now, but I’m looking at being a photographer. In my free time now days, I grab my camera, run outside, and take as many pictures as I can. I have also ran a video camera at my cousin’s wedding. Later, my grandma was watching the tape and she asked my cousin what company she had hired to shot the wedding. She was so proud of me. I also took some pictures at the reception. It was the best experience of my life. I really like the college, Illinois Wesleyan University. I would like to play volleyball there, if possible, but photography would not only be a job, but it’s in my heart and always will be.
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