During my childhood and a majority of my high school career I always preferred to go unnoticed. My preference to be unremarkable and embody everything average resulted in missed opportunities. Relationships, academic achievements, and extracurricular activities was put on the wayside in fear of failure and mediocrity. However, I do not look at the past to meditate on what could have been, instead I look to measure my growth and relish in the now. Regret leads to anguish over unchangeable actions and distracts me from the present and coloring my future in a negative light. Since I handled my fear to fail and shaken off the judgment of others, I have accomplished goals that my elementary and high school-self did not think we could even do. One
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Highly pompous for a 14 year old failing English, yet at the time it was conducive to the lonely lifestyle I wanted to achieve. Fortunately, I out grew this isolating mindset that led to explore and adopt new methods of living. Ridding myself from that debilitating mindset to work a job that required me to directly interact with kids everyday. Before the experience, kids were oddities that was best left to the people who produce them, yet, through not only working with them, but talking with them too I seen the amazingness that they held. Children are invaluable to our communities that is greater than them possessing the ability to continue on the human race. They have the ability to take most complex structures or situations and strip them to their simplest forms that many adults have trouble doing. Also, they do what they want when they want, which is not the healthiest mode of interaction. On the other hand, though, having the ability to go about your day participating in activities, wearing what you want to wear, and saying what you want to say without conforming to your culture’s expectations is lost the older we get. Stamped out of use slowly through interpersonal interactions and participation regulated infrastructures like school. My experience working with children ignited my fervor to not only prioritize other’s
Highly pompous for a 14 year old failing English, yet at the time it was conducive to the lonely lifestyle I wanted to achieve. Fortunately, I out grew this isolating mindset that led to explore and adopt new methods of living. Ridding myself from that debilitating mindset to work a job that required me to directly interact with kids everyday. Before the experience, kids were oddities that was best left to the people who produce them, yet, through not only working with them, but talking with them too I seen the amazingness that they held. Children are invaluable to our communities that is greater than them possessing the ability to continue on the human race. They have the ability to take most complex structures or situations and strip them to their simplest forms that many adults have trouble doing. Also, they do what they want when they want, which is not the healthiest mode of interaction. On the other hand, though, having the ability to go about your day participating in activities, wearing what you want to wear, and saying what you want to say without conforming to your culture’s expectations is lost the older we get. Stamped out of use slowly through interpersonal interactions and participation regulated infrastructures like school. My experience working with children ignited my fervor to not only prioritize other’s