"Writing is easy, all you have to do is cross out the wrong words"
       -Mark Twain

              People always ask me, 'What do you want to be when you grow up?' and whenever I am asked that my answer always changes when I was younger I would say 'I want to work in Disney Land' because I loved the idea that I could work on the happiest place on earth and make peoples dreams come true. A couple of years ago, I was asked again by my homeroom teacher and I said "I want to be a police officer" and I said that because I loved the idea of protecting people, and making my life mean something. Now, if you were to ask me what I want to be when I grow up I will say "I want to be a surgeon" because I love the idea of saving lives and giving people another chance and how cool would it be to be able to save lives everyday? My point is, that even though I don't know what I will be when I'm older that's ok right now because I still have time to figure it out but what I do know, is that I want to make my life means something. I want to be remembered as that girl who did that great thing and changed a persons life. I want to be someone who means something to the world. That is my dream, and I don't think that will ever change I will always want to be someone special.
       -Katelynn

Let’s face it, life gets busy. It always does. Sometimes I can go months without anything interesting or time consuming happens but then all of the sudden, life gets busy. Sometimes it is hard to keep up with the speed of life, sometimes you end up falling behind. But that is okay because it happens and there isn’t much you can do about that. One could argue and say you could just work harder but there are only so many hours in a day and only so many days in a week. Right now, I just finished writing 1500+ words for study notes for a test I have on Friday and I’ll tell you, I’ve spent all of my spare time typing out these notes and am no where near close to memorizing them all because I have been busy and I am struggling to keep up with the speed of life. At times it is very overwhelming and hard to handle and I just feel like breaking down and slamming on the breaks of my life, and sometime I do break down but then I go back and pick up the pieces, repair myself and continue on because that is what I have to do. Sometime I wish I could just freeze time, just to get a break but that is not how life works. Life has a mind of it’s own and we will all learn how to keep up with it.

“Just as the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly…”

What we have we shouldn’t take for granted. We shouldn’t waste things that could still be used. Use me for an example, the other day I had a water bottle full of water, but it was day old warm water. So, I took it over to the sink unscrewed the lid and right before I poured it out I thought to myself, why am I dumping out perfectly good water, that I paid for down the drain? I could find another use for it. So I set the bottle down and I thought to myself, well now what can I do with this water? I could just suck it up and drink it like it is right now, I could add ice to it in hopes of cooling it down and making it ice water, or I could go outside and water a tree or a plant. I figured that in wouldn’t enjoy it if I just drank it right then, and I already had another glass of ice water so I should water the plants in my backyard. I took it out to my backyard and watered this evergreen tree that I have had since grade 2. Just doing something small like not wasting water made a difference and it made me feel good about myself for the day, thinking that if I try hard enough I can be a resourceful person.

       -Katelynn