It's Bliss!

What makes you happy? I know there are many things that make me very happy. Some are things that are so simple and some are things that you or anyone else will never experience.

It might sound weird but smiling at old people and having them smile back makes me happy. I don't know what about it that makes me so happy but it's like a feeling of satisfaction and joy. Actually just smiling at people in general makes me happy. The perfect day makes me happy. My favorite time of the year is the end of summer, beginning of fall. I love it when it's that perfect temperature outside. It's slightly windy but sunny at the same time. It's bliss!

Just thinking of old memories makes me happy. Spending the whole summer with Katie Brown when we were kids. Riding our bikes all around town. Going on vacations with my mom and sister. But my favorite memory of all is my little blue house that I lived in on the south side of Des Moines. It wasn't much but it was everything to me. I still remember the smell of that house. It smelled like a breezy summer day. That was the place where my sister and I would make up dances to Spice Girls songs, play hockey in the driveway, and play soccer in the front yard with my dad. I loved that house.

Everyone has those things that makes them happy. They differ from person to person. But there's nothing like old memories and reminiscing in them.

Live It Up!

The class of 2011 at Van Meter High School is the class I will be graduating with this year. When you graduate everything changes. As much as you don't want it to happen, it has to. You can't stop time and say you want to stay in high school. It's scary to know that every thing that you've known for so many years is going to change.

Graduating is a scary but exciting feeling for me. Knowing that I will be able to live on my own and not have to report to my parents every night and day. Not having to be home at a certain time and hang out when ever and with whoever I want. I'm most looking forward to meeting new people when I attend college. Making new friends and experiencing new things. Those are the things that excite me when I think of graduating from high school. The things that scare me the most is not seeing the same people everyday that I've seen for 12 years. Going out of my comfort zone and having to do things for myself. For example support myself and not have my family there with me 24/7. But most of all losing touch with my close friends. Thats what scares me most. Everyone says that they will never lose touch but I think people just say that to make themselves feel better. You know deep inside your friends you have now won't be always be in your life forever. It's like once you go to college you meet new people, go to class, and have a job. You get busy.

Thats why I want to make everything of my last year in high school. Do everything I possibly can. Hang out with my friends all the time, attend every school event, and just enjoy the time I have left in high school. I know it sounds cheesy but these are times you definitely can't get back. I don't want to look back on my life and say I wish I would of done this or that during high school. Things change and you can't do anything about it but you have to learn to deal with the changes. Make the most of your life and don't be afraid to live it.