This could be my life

This could be my life

This Could Be My Life

Being raised the last of seven children, my goal in life had always been 'be different'. My family has a long line of scientists, authors, and computer programmers. I aspire to do something more creative. Art is my life. I may like other subjects, like Chemistry (can't keep the all the genes away!) and Math, but they're just used to make my passion more interesting. Teaching would complete my hopes. Helping others like me at a young age would be the best thing I could ever think of doing with my life. I'd love being the person a bright student looked up to. The possibility that one of them would thank me someday for keeping up with them and encouraging them till my throat was sore would be the most wonderful paycheck I could ask for.
Teachers inspire me, but not because they wanted to. Some teachers inspired me to be better than them, of course, but there were good teachers that did so much more with encouragement and compliments. Mrs. Logan was the best Reading teacher I ever had. She taught like she knew everything there was to know about all the literature she had us read. She told us her opinion and encouraged us to have our own. She loved discussing opinions. She's the reason I feel so strongly that everyone can have an opinion, but it doesn't means they're always right. My imagination also blossomed with her. She was one of the few teachers that encouraged free writing at a young age.
Comics lit the fire Mrs. Logan was fanning. With them, I found a way to express myself with writing and still make artwork at the same time. The only downside to it is most people can read a three-hundred paged comic book in less than an hour. That makes for a pretty big let down. Months of work, read in an hour, and all I get out of it is a "Good job!" To do that kind of job, I'd better love working on it.
I once took an interest in track and field. This foolish act was inspired by a show called Battle Athletes. The whole story revolved around track. It looked like so much fun in the show, so I tried it for a semester. That's when I realized I'm not interested in competing. I tried to do poorly compared to everyone else just to get out of competition. This feeling continued into my other classes as well.
I've only competed in two areas, Band and Drama. There were two band tryouts that I went to. I got into both, but only because I was the only one trying out for that instrument. Drama wasn't much of a competition either. I was going to do a duet with my good friend, Kei, but she didn't get the message about the time change and didn't get there in time. I only agreed to do it for her. She felt so bad afterwards.
Friendship can be a positive and negative thing. I've lost many friends, not to death or them moving away, but to them losing faith in me and finding something else they would spend time with. I get along with nearly everyone, but that doesn't mean I think of all of them as my friend. My best friends are Daki, Caitlin, and Dustin. I've known Daki since sixth grade. We've had our fights, but we always stayed close. Caitlin's been my friend since I dated one of her friends. He turned out to be less likable, but Caitlin stayed my friend. We got to be really good friends after another guy broke my heart. She was there to help me pick up the pieces and become myself again. My only male friend is Dustin, or as everyone I know calls him, Dusty. He's so sweet. Even when I treated him badly, called him names, and tried to stop talking to him, he's always stayed with me. He probably should hate me, but we still talk as much as we can. He's always there to talk to when I'm having problems with relationships, too.
I'm a new student in Adna. With the combination of not knowing anyone, renting a house, and working as hard as I can to get scholarships, moving right before my senior year was probably not the best idea in the world, but I'm here nonetheless. The people have been nice. Ashley and I have become good friends fast. I'm hoping I don't ruin our friendship. She's really nice to talk to, and she's the one that set me up with Richard. He's so nice and kind. Richard even dances. I've never known a guy that loves to dance in Oklahoma. They usually think it's girly or something.
Evergreen College has already accepted me. To help with the cost of college, I'm going to be helping my sister with a book. She writes; I illustrate. The book she wants to write are based on a story she came up with for the newspaper she wrote for in high school. I get to draw a picture for every page of story. We're hoping the children's book does well. I'll be starting the illustrations this summer, if I'm lucky.
Mary Beck