I know I have been quite on a hiatus lol...but I have been busy!!! This is the home stretch, only 6 weeks left to graduation and it is grind time baby! Anywhooo, more about that later....
So for my Poetry class I had to write a 30 page anthology. Yeah, I said 30! Yeah, that's alot right! lol....But it wasn't that bad, just very tedious because of the small bs that the teacher required us to do. We had to pick a theme and collect poems that catered to that theme. We had to get the paper bounded and everything, couldn't turn it in stapled. Gotta love this class right ((I'm def being sarcastic))
But anywhoo, the theme I picked was to be a kid again. I picked this theme because too often do we rush to be adults. We want that sense of independence and not having to listen to anyone because "you are grown". But with gaining this independence, you lose your innocence and a freedom from real responbilites. You gain having the options of making your own decisions, but you lose having the option to blame your parents or anyone else for the consequences of your decisions if you don't like the outcome.
You gain being able to have your own things, cell phone, house, etc etc, and you do as you please. But you lose having your parents for those things. I never realized how much toothpaste and tissue actually cost before living on my own and paying my own bills. We take things like that for granted all the time.
And children these days are in a rush to grow up even faster than I was a pre-teen and teenager. They rush to become adults by doing things like having sex, having boyfriends, smoking weed, doing other drugs, and drinking. What's the rush? All of that will be waiting for you when you get older, once you finally get there.
No one ever takes the time and just enjoy their child hood anymore. And it is very sad. I hear stories everyday about how children as young as 11 and 12 are having sex, with older guys of course, and children as young as 14 getting pregnant or having children! They are still merely children themselves and now they have someone else to be responsible for!
Some things you deal with as a child because that's your world. You deal with things such as petty fights with your best friend, who sits next to who on the bus, who is going to be on the end in a game of rope. Save the adult problems like sex, pregnancy, drugs, fist fights, and family issues for the time that is meant for them to be dealt with.
And what's funny is that the same people who rush to grow up and make their own rules, once they reach adulthood and deal with the consequences of their actions and rules, they want to be children again and deal with those carefree problems that went away by the time you woke up for school the next day.
Some things once gone, you can never get back, ever! And your childhood is one of them! So please cherish it while you can!
Over spring break I went home and just spent time with my family. No, I really did spend time with my family. Yeah I was with Jonathan alot, that is expected, but I sat and talked with my younger sisters, helped my younger brother Cristian with his homework, took him to my younger cousin Taylor's birthday party and stayed with him the whole time, I spend time with my god-daughter Zaria, and I talked with my other younger brother James before he went back down south for college ((Alcorn State University in Mississippi)). And I can honestly say between the petty arguments and shout fests, I enjoyed my time home. Me and my chocolate drop ((18 year old sister)) even starting teaching my younger sister Kenae how to turn and jump double dutch ((who's 10)). And that's what she should be doing at 10 & 11, learning how to jump rope, not sex or rolling a blunt! But we had fun and me and my chocolate even took some turns ourselves. The pictures are below. Enjoy!
ps-Cherish your childhood while you still can.
So for my Poetry class I had to write a 30 page anthology. Yeah, I said 30! Yeah, that's alot right! lol....But it wasn't that bad, just very tedious because of the small bs that the teacher required us to do. We had to pick a theme and collect poems that catered to that theme. We had to get the paper bounded and everything, couldn't turn it in stapled. Gotta love this class right ((I'm def being sarcastic))
But anywhoo, the theme I picked was to be a kid again. I picked this theme because too often do we rush to be adults. We want that sense of independence and not having to listen to anyone because "you are grown". But with gaining this independence, you lose your innocence and a freedom from real responbilites. You gain having the options of making your own decisions, but you lose having the option to blame your parents or anyone else for the consequences of your decisions if you don't like the outcome.
You gain being able to have your own things, cell phone, house, etc etc, and you do as you please. But you lose having your parents for those things. I never realized how much toothpaste and tissue actually cost before living on my own and paying my own bills. We take things like that for granted all the time.
And children these days are in a rush to grow up even faster than I was a pre-teen and teenager. They rush to become adults by doing things like having sex, having boyfriends, smoking weed, doing other drugs, and drinking. What's the rush? All of that will be waiting for you when you get older, once you finally get there.
No one ever takes the time and just enjoy their child hood anymore. And it is very sad. I hear stories everyday about how children as young as 11 and 12 are having sex, with older guys of course, and children as young as 14 getting pregnant or having children! They are still merely children themselves and now they have someone else to be responsible for!
Some things you deal with as a child because that's your world. You deal with things such as petty fights with your best friend, who sits next to who on the bus, who is going to be on the end in a game of rope. Save the adult problems like sex, pregnancy, drugs, fist fights, and family issues for the time that is meant for them to be dealt with.
And what's funny is that the same people who rush to grow up and make their own rules, once they reach adulthood and deal with the consequences of their actions and rules, they want to be children again and deal with those carefree problems that went away by the time you woke up for school the next day.
Some things once gone, you can never get back, ever! And your childhood is one of them! So please cherish it while you can!
Over spring break I went home and just spent time with my family. No, I really did spend time with my family. Yeah I was with Jonathan alot, that is expected, but I sat and talked with my younger sisters, helped my younger brother Cristian with his homework, took him to my younger cousin Taylor's birthday party and stayed with him the whole time, I spend time with my god-daughter Zaria, and I talked with my other younger brother James before he went back down south for college ((Alcorn State University in Mississippi)). And I can honestly say between the petty arguments and shout fests, I enjoyed my time home. Me and my chocolate drop ((18 year old sister)) even starting teaching my younger sister Kenae how to turn and jump double dutch ((who's 10)). And that's what she should be doing at 10 & 11, learning how to jump rope, not sex or rolling a blunt! But we had fun and me and my chocolate even took some turns ourselves. The pictures are below. Enjoy!
ps-Cherish your childhood while you still can.
My dear friend LaKendra, who also attends Howard and is also from Chicago put in best when she stated, "Dear D.C. seriously... This snow could have been gone, instead of fretting when you found out the storm was coming, you should have been preparing. Throw down some rock salt before the snow so it wont stick when it comes! Plow the roads after snow has landed! First it was how to run a country now its how to handle snow...Must we Chicagoans teach you everything?!"