5 Goals

Something I really want to do and have wanted to for a while but I'm too lazy, is stop being lazy. It's getting pretty ridiculous. If something is hard, I'll usually try to find a way out of it. I need to stop being lazy and just do what I need to do. Being lazy isn't going to help at all. It's just going to make things worse. I need to work on not being lazy. It will help me out a lot.

I procrastinate with almost everything; school work, community service, and pretty much everything else I need to do. If I don't do them it's just going to cause more trouble and it's going to be more work than it would have been in the first place.

I don't want my work to be any harder than it has to be. So to help me, I've made a list of a few things to help me with my laziness.

#1 Consequential thinking. 

I've been doing this a lot more lately. If I think about what will happen if I do what I need to or if I don't, I will usually do it. The consequences of doing it are a lot better than if I don't.

#2 More positive thoughts.

Instead of thinking, " I'll do it tomorrow" or " it will be okay if I turn it in late" I can just think "if I do it now, I won't have to do it later." It will make things easier.

#3 Ask for help with things.

If it really is a hard thing to do, instead of not doing it, I can ask for help. It's a lot easier to do something when you have help. It won't seem as hard and I'll be more motivated to do it.

#4 don't look at it as a bad thing.

Instead of thinking about how bad it's going to be just look at the positives. Think about how it will be better if I just stop being lazy and do it.

I really need to stop being lazy. In the end, it will be a lot better for me to just do what I need to do. Hopefully this list will help me cure my laziness. I'll be a lot happier.

Trends that Should Die with 2014

I think that we should leave the term bae in 2014. 

One reason I think it should die is it is way overused. People literally say it 24/7. Almost every Facebook post I see says bae in it. It's really annoying. I don't know why, but it really bugs me. 

Another reason we should get rid of it is I think it makes you sound stupid. I know it means "before anyone else", but I think it's just stupid.  To me it just sounds like you're too stupid to say babe or baby. 

I admit that it does have a good meaning though. It is really meaningful to tell somebody that you'll put them before anything else but you should just tell them that. We don't need an acronym for it. So let's just be smart and leave "bae" in 2015.

Do/Don't Essay

Let me tell you the best-kept secret about high school. It's easy. The two hardest things i did in high school were: 1. Waking up in the morning And 2. Doing my homework. At first these things seemed hard, but, if you just do it, it's actually pretty easy.

I'm not saying high school is entirely easy but most of it is. You might not get along with anybody, get bullied, or get in with the wrong crowd, but the school part is really easy. All you have to do is pay attention in class, do your work, and ask for help if you need it. If you do those things, high school will be a lot easier. 

I've put together a list of do's and don't's about surviving high school.

Do: Go to class. If you skip class it might seem good at the time, but it will cause a lot of trouble in the long run, especially if you do it frequently.

Don't: Hang out with the "bad" kids. They'll start dragging you down and eventually mess up your life if you keep doing bad things. I know this from experience. 

Do: Pay attention in class. It will make your work a whole lot easier and all you have to do is listen. It's not that complicated. 

Don't: Procrastinate. I'm a victim of procrastination and it's not fun. It gets you further behind and you'll end up trying to do a lot of work at the last minute. 

Do: Remember to turn in your work. If you do that you won't have to turn it in late and lose points even though you had it completed on time. 

Even though people say it's hard Don't believe them. If you follow these Do's and Don't's, high school will be very easy.

If I Could Change the World

If I could change the world I would get rid of guns, grades, and money.

The first thing on my list is guns. There are many reasons why, but the main one is to stop wars. If there were no guns, there probably wouldn't be wars. Wars just cause death, and people lose their family members. People shouldn't have to go through that.

The second thing I would get rid of is grades. Who needs teachers to tell them that they're good at something? I don't think there should be letter grades. It might make people with lower grades feel lower than the people with A's and B's and it isn't true. 

The last thing on my list is money. I think money is stupid. There are people in the world that have enough money to do whatever they want, and there are people that have very little or no money. If everybody had around the same amount of money, then I don't think it would be as bad. 

These are the three things that I would get rid of if I could change the world. In my opinion, all they do is cause trouble. I think the world would be a lot better off without them.

My Favorite Mistake

My favorite mistake is probably a common one. The mistake was smoking weed for the first time. Making that choice has caused a lot of things to happen in my life, most of them not good things. It's affected me, my family, and other people in my life.

I was hanging out with one of my good friends, just hanging out and playing video games. We hung out a lot, almost every day. This day was different. I made a decision that was going to affect me for years, and it is still affecting me to this day. It has never stopped causing me trouble. 

That day, I decided to smoke weed. At the time I had mixed emotions about it. Part of me knew that it was a bad idea and I should've made the choice to leave or just tell him I didn't want to do it. The other part of me thought it couldn't hurt anything and it wasn't a bad idea. Guess which part of me one? Right. I made the choice to do it. 

My friend's brother would smoke weed all the time, so we knew he would have some. We played video games while we were waiting for him to leave. We waited about ten minutes after he left just to make sure he wasn't going to come back. 

As soon as we knew he wasn't coming back, we went upstairs to his room. We started going through his drawers, closet, and just about every place we figured he would hide it. Sure enough, we found it, along with a pipe. We loaded the bowl and started smoking. We had no idea what we were doing. Somebody probably would have laughed if they saw. We eventually got the hang of it.

When we were done, we went downstairs to get food. (Just like everybody else that smokes weed.) After I did it, I felt kind of bad but I got over it. I just didn't think about the bad things, I just made the best of it. 

I started doing it quite a bit after that. My friend and I were always stealing it from his brother or finding other ways to get it. Eventually, I found myself doing it almost every day. I was never thinking about the bad things, just looking for the high. I wish I would've thought about it and stopped before I got myself into trouble. 

Although I regret that choice, I'm glad I did it at the same time. My life might have been better if I didn't do it but I wouldn't be as smart. I've learned a lot from everything that I've been through. I wouldn't be the person I am today if I didn't make that decision. I had my fun but now I know that that's not what I want to do with my life. It's time to grow up and move on with life.

Twitter Memoir

My family was separated, because of the choices my brother and I made. It's been about five months. My brother is home, and soon I will be too. Life is going to get better.

Six Word Memoir

Never give up, keep moving forward.

Six Word Memoir

My family will be brought together.