Melissa+M's+Goals+for+Freshman+Year+and+Beyond

Everyone’s lives are drawn out like paintings, each person is the artist, each person drawing what they want their life to look like, each drawing unique, and when you decide you like your drawing, you can paint it. But when its painted, you can’t erase your mistakes, re-draw anything, or change your mind. That’s how I think of life. Mistakes happen and everyone has them, but I don’t want to focus on the mistakes, I want to focus on the whole painting. I accept the mistakes I’ve made in my past, but I don’t want to think about those. I want to stay focused on my present and my future. My name is Melissa M and I am 14 years old. I am currently on the VHS Girl’s Golf Team and want to stay on the team for the next 4 years. Although I am on this team, I still want to exercise at the YMCA and run more. I hope to be able to run a mile in under 8 minutes by the end of the year. My athletics are important to me and always will be.

When I am not at golf practice or tournaments, I am either at school or home. For high school, I have some goals for the next 4 years. I want to get a 4.0 GPA every semester, pass all my classes and actually enjoy some of them. But I not only have goals for my academics, but also my social life. I can be shy so I want to make new friends here. I also want to join some clubs like cooking club or speech and debate. Lastly, I want to do FIRE sometime in the future. It seems like a fun experience and I would like to do it with some friends.

When I am at home, I am either with my family or with friends. My friends keep me in one piece, especially when I am stressed. I hope to be able to spend more time with them over the next 4 years, especially the ones that are not at Foothill. My friends are very important in my life, especially the two friends that have helped me through so much. When I am not with my friends, I am with my family. I want to be less competitive with my sisters, especially my twin. We both have a problem when competing with each other. I also want to become closer with my older sister because she is graduating this year. My friends and family mean a lot to me, and I know they will always be there for me. That is why I love them.

After high school, I will graduate from a 4 year university, proud and pleased with what I have done. But that is as far as I have planned. I know I want to travel the world and have a family, a house, and a good job, but I don’t know any specifics. What university, how many kids, where I will live, what type of house to buy, what I’ll major in, my job, I don’t know any of that. Its not that I don’t care, more that I am unsure of who I am and what I really want to do in my future. I don’t know If I have truly found a passion for something, and how can I? I am 14 years old, a freshman, still finding who I am. So I am not going to rush into anything in life, I am going to make mistakes, do stupid things, regret words or actions used. But I am not going to worry about those mistakes on my painting, because after every second, every stroke of paint, it is always the present I am focused on.