My Personal Philosophy

This is a paper that I found on my parents computer. I thought it was very interesting and would like to share it with you guys. I wrote this my senior year in high school for my AP English class.

I am unique. I’ve lived most of my life knowing that I don’t follow the general flow of others. I’ve come to realize that my way of thinking is not that of what my parents, teachers, and even peers want me to think. My approach on things is very different from that of the average teenager. I’ve always rationalized my incompetence in meeting certain requirements to be my lack of enthusiasm or motivation, but more than once has the thought of my intelligence crossed my mind as reason and/or cause. I have beautiful features about me, but lack the self-esteem to be able to become anything great.

I like learning. To be able to understand how and why things work, and then to be able to explain to others with intelligent but understandable words is an amazing thing. Going into the minds of others to catch a glimpse of how they perceive the world and reading the many dreams, hopes, beliefs, and knowledge is an exciting voyage. I like being independent and knowing things for myself, but I like to have support, help, and others thoughts as well. I like observing things around me, and little details. I like the feelings of accomplishment and the relief of honesty. I like being able to express myself appropriately and I like attention for good things.

I believe we all have to potential to become great. I believe that I will never fully understand everything I want to. I believe that everything is connected together and that it is important for us to know as much as we can. Knowledge is one of the most important tools in life, if not the most important. With that tool, mankind will succeed. If one puts forth the time, effort, persistence and sacrifice needed, then one is bound to become great.

I dislike assumptions. The world is too quick to make judgments that effect decisions. If we become so hasty that we can’t take the time to get to know people, then all the knowledge, persistence, dreaming, and hard work comes to nothing. If we can’t take time to look carefully, then some Einstein might lose confidence or ability to do great and wonderful things.

 I plan to continue in life to the best of my ability. Even if I feel I am not capable of doing things, life goes on. Often times we hear the saying, “It’s the thought that counts.” I plan to make my thoughts into actions so that it truly does count. I can achieve success if I try instead of just thinking. I plan to take full responsibility for any of my actions and make them better if I have to. I plan to have a happy family, raise children, and provide them with love, care, knowledge, and anything else they might need. I plan to further my education both through college and personal study.

I dream of satisfaction. Traveling different places, learning new things, feeling many emotions, experiencing necessary achievements, and enjoying life. To be a skilled scholar and be an accomplished musician, to have the attitude of completeness and gratification for the knowledge I thirst for is what will bring me satisfaction.

I have independent and different ideas and philosophies. I am an individual.

Here's the video... it was having difficulties uploading.

Me + Drugs = Very funny!!

So the other day I was helping out my roommate Bella record herself for a class project. While going about preparing and editing her film, we stumbled across something I didn't even know existed. As we commence watch, becasue we're the curious little creatures we are, I soon realize that this is footage of me sleeping for an hour! It was filmed during the time I was staying at Mom and Dad's because I had just gotten my wisdom teeth pulled and they were taking care of me. Bella looks at me like, "You're some sort of freak..." and all I can say to her is, "I honestly don't remember this! I was on drugs for goodness sake." I've now decided that it's really really funny and hope you guys enjoy this as much as we did :) Oh and I did edit it for time's sake, I really don't know how'd want to watch an hour of me sleeping anyway! :P

Fun with family!

Lately I've decided that I need to spend more time with my family and siblings because now that I'm older and understand SO much (:P) anyway I dedided that now that I'm not in high school and have gone through a little bit of the real world I can  connect with my family in a different way and it's important for me to get to know them and become good friends with them now. So since I'm always over at Mike and Camila's I deceded that I'd start with Kim and Brandon because it had been so long that I had been around them. So about two weeks ago I went over and first off Kim and I made some way good chicken with a corn, beans, rice and tomatoes with some spices mixture. After dinner we had some fun playing around with Spencer. Gotta love that boy! He is so huge and he talks all the time and it's so clear too. He showed off his puzzle skills to me and I have to admit he was really fast at them, I was very impressed! He just flirted with me the whole itme and I was a bit suprised at times because he's such a boy but I'm not used to that ha ha. He would totally face-plant and get up and laugh about it! Soo not something girls would do :P After he got all ready for bed Kim and Brandon and I had out little fun eating ice cream (btw if anyone needs help knowing the proper way to prepare ice cream for your self, talk to Brandon! He's the king at it haha) and playing a fun little board game. I was a bit worried about the game at first because last time I played it with them Mom and Dad played it with us and it wasn't all that fun, but I soon found out that it was because they were so slow! Ha ha but we had fun talking and catching up and making fun of each other :)

So this weekend I went over to Emily and Eliot's house and we all had a lot of fun! When I first got there the twins were taking their nap so Randi had me all to her self for a while and she wanted to show me how she played her "V-smile". She was so cute and very good at it, I was impressed. Then the twins came down and things when crazy. We had a lot of fun taking funny pictures on my computer at first then I chased the kids around while Emily made us some dinner. Randi loved it so much she kept coming up to me all night saying "I got you!" and then taking off for me to chase her :) cute little girl. After dinner and even more playing with the kids it was time for bed and then Em and El ganged up on me and told me their opinion about school ;) it gave me some stuff to think about and I appreciated their concern for me. After that Em and I went down and I helped her out with making some of her hair bow's. She does such a good job with them I'm really impressed with all the work she does! While we were doing that after a while David called and Emily took over the parenting job for a bit and wanted to interview him, I should mention though that it was David's idea though :) So she asked him her questions and then after we had a good laugh about it but I thought it was super funny that both were so keen on having the interview :P The next day we al went out shopping for different stuff for Emiy (I have no money so I didn't even bother looking at stuff, I mkostly just tried to keep the kids entertained) and we spent all day doing that. We stopped at a Carls Jr for lunch because it hd a play pin for the kids and the girls had a great time climbing around it. Randi got scared in part of it though so I had to go up and get her to help her out. I must admit I was pretty jealous of the kids cause it was one of the coolest play pins I'd ever been in, but after taking the twins through it a few times to go on the slide I realized why they make those for little kids only :P When we got home we were all tired so the kids shared some little kid dinner and then had part of the adult food which we ordered from a Mexican place and then the girls when to bed. Emily and I then went to the movie Push. It was pretty good but we both agreed that it was missing something... but all in all we had a great time.

Now it's picture time! I didn't take any pictures at Kim's except on my phone but I don't know how to transfer that so here are some of my fav's from Em's:

Randi, Kestin and I

Kestin, Randi, Emily and Kourtney

Emily, Randi and I

funny pic of Randi

"Oh no! Where did Lindsey's head go!"

Me :P

My sister is so peeerrty ;)

Kestin haha

Kourtney wasn't really into it lol

hummm :]
Me, Randi and Mom (Emily) Randi loved taking these pics!
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