Remember Your Past!

Fact: My seventh grade history teacher made us listen to Rage Against the Machine's "Sleep Now in the Fire" about five times or more because he wanted to ridicule us about how little we knew about the bad things in American History. The only historical fact we knew about was the "Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria." So after he yelled us about that detail, he decided to tell us about agent orange and such examples. He also made us write down every single county in Texas (there are approximately 254 counties in Texas) about ten times because he wanted us to memorize them.
Fact: I kicked a boy in the shins in the seventh grade really hard right in front of the teacher because he was messing my hair. She gave me a pink slip and I told her that he provoked me and she gave him a pink slip too. He never forgave me for being a tattletale. That was my third and final pink slip.

Daydreaming It Up!

What do you want to be when you grow up? A loaded question. I simply want to be good. Good at my career, a good daughter and sister, etc. Of course, I would like to be many more things than just good, but doesn't everything whittle down to goodness? Maybe you would like to be great, or even better, the greatest. But so many people try to achieve greatness without goodness and crash and burn. And what I ask is straightforwardly this, when you look in the mirror right now do you see happiness, goodness, hilariousness, badness, craziness, or sadness? Do you see someone who is comfortable in their own skin or someone who will be constantly on the move for change? Because unless you don't stop and try to change, you will always be the same. A melancholy mood I might be in right now but it is no reason to get depressed at the life that lies ahead of me and what I want to be doing.