Hope From Passion

I love playing golf, it is something I am very passionate about doing. There are many small things about golf that I love. I  love getting out at seven in the morning when the course is in perfect shape and no one is ahead of you. Some difficulties I endure with golf are losing confidence when I play one bad round. The way I get past this is by telling myself that I have done great things before and I am not going to let one bad round let me down. It is not just a coincidence that I got to where I am, so I just have to trust it and play well. Confidence is really just a combination of courage and hope. You need enough courage to tell yourself that you can do it and that you are better than you think you are. You need hope to keep you going and drive you to the next level. I truly believe hope and courage are what really drive people to make the really important decisions in their lives. Golf is all about having enough courage to pull off the tough shots needed to win big championships. When you watch the best of the best golfers play, their tournaments rounds are full of courageous shots. They don’t back away from anything and really show how mentally tough they are throughout the round, not getting distracted by anything anybody says or does. Once I develop that I know I will be great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkFYcVrGagA

Here is a quick video of me taking a shot.

-By Darin Bertschi

Sometimes I wish I was still a kid because I wish I could grow up faster. I like high school, but I like having money to spend on what I want, so I look forward to my job and the future I am going to have. My future I think is going to be good for me because I believe that I am going to go to post secondary school at the Lethbridge College and then get my diploma from there and get the job I want have always wanted in life. I believe that my future is coming true right now, but I'm still in high school, so I am doing the classes I need to do to get to where I want to be in the next 5 years.

-By Kurtis Mead

My Monsters

We all have monsters to battle and conquer in life. Some are internal and some may be people or tasks in your everyday life. For me, some of my biggest monsters are within myself. I have never really been one to talk to anyone about my personal life. I guess this brings us to my first internal monster, which is trusting people. I feel like I have a hard time trusting people, even my own family sometimes. I am young, so my life entails a lot of mistakes and wrong decisions. When we mess up in life the last thing we want is to be constantly reminded and ridiculed for it, but this seems to happen to me with my family. A month ago I went and got a tattoo done, and I proudly went and told my older sister about it and all she did was call my tattoo artist down, and then bullied me about my decision in artists. This wouldn’t have bothered me if she had just expressed her opinion nicely, but no. She went and talked behind my back to her friends and they started posting rude things over social media about it. How am I supposed to feel like I can talk to someone, of all people my older sister, when she goes and tells her friends everything I tell her?   Another example would have to be trusting my mom enough to talk to. I have an even harder time opening up to my mom because she is always so negative. I can tell her something good that happened today and get not even a look in response. Sometimes if I ask a question, she doesn’t realize it, but she almost sounds angry I even asked. Other times, I have told her something in confidence and she will have already gone and told my grandma and her sisters. Where is the trust? Mom’s are supposed to be caring, supportive and trusting, not tell you all of the bad and leave out the good advice and certainly don’t tell anyone your secrets. A teenage girl needs her mother to be her best friend, not her enemy. It has taken me some time, but since being on my own I have learned that having the courage to talk to people about what is bothering me is only going to benefit me in the long run. I will no longer have to carry whatever is on my shoulders alone.

-By F.S-E

Living Your Dreams

Everyone  has a passion to do something big and I think everyone should follow their dream and passions unless they involve being a drug dealer or something like that. No one should be made fun of for following what they want to do with they lives because. Everyone should be allowed to do what they think they are good at. You can become well known for doing something cool, or creating something that can change our lives for the better, like the earphone was created by a 14 year old because no one stopped him. Often, the only that stops us is someone else saying "you can’t do it" and people shouldn't listen to that. So, people need to push those negative ideas out of their lives and keep on putting all their time towards doing something they have dreamed about for years. I think people should follow their dreams.

-By Ryan Morton

Overcoming Vulnerability

People feel vulnerable in so many ways, but my vulnerability is about my future. I always ask myself what is the future going to look like? I always have vulnerabilities about myself and I often doubt if I am going to have a successful life career or not. Those kind of questions make me feel vulnerable about my future. In order to stop myself feeling vulnerable I have decided to create my own future by waking up every morning and going to school which will help me to make plans about my future.

We all make plans and plot about our future and try figure some stuff out by over thinking on it until we reach the point that we decide whether to start making moves on it, or we just second guess it. I like to sit on a comfortable place and contemplate about my life and try to figure out how I am going to do it and what it is going to take me. I found out that I like business and that is the career that I am going to pursue, but it was not easy for me to figure it out until I found myself. That is the first and most important step and it is finding yourself. After that comes the biggest issue that most of us find hard and it is, how are you going to work out your way to it? I get so frustrated questioning how and when should I start to take the steps toward my future and I start thinking way too much and I come up with ideas that were not on my mind before. I start to feel vulnerable about not knowing the way to start and I question if I am going to succeed in it at all, so I have decide to take a further step by looking up to the people who are successful in the business career because they say success always leaves a trail to be followed. I have also started reading some books to broaden my thinking and get more ideas. After doing all this I can say that I am capable of overcoming my vulnerabilities by starting to take steps towards what I like to do and by not overthinking things too much.

-By Samsum Haile

Loner

At this time, I am dealing with my own monsters. My friends are always nice and fun to talk to, but one of them likes someone who doesn't like me. Everyone follows my friend, who prefers the one who hates me, so then the moment they leave my monsters come out - anger, sadness, loneliness depression, fear, and pain. Those are my monsters, when I am all alone they all come from behind and I beg my friends to come back, but my friends are glued together, and wherever one of them goes the rest follows.

That was a month ago and now its all okay because we have worked out all of our differences and now we all hang out together, and there is no sign of my monsters anymore, and I am happy for once this year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS8sqgBgzG8

-By Darryl Cote

The Dark

The “dark” that people face is different for each person. The “dark” is a metaphor for something in someone's life that challenges them or has a negative impact on them. Everyone faces the “dark” differently. Some people have the help of others to get through it and others look for drugs to numb the pain. The thing we can’t do is let the dark devour us. When there is only darkness in your life, you can’t see what is really going on. We need to let the “light” in and guide us through hard times. The “light” is anything that positively affects us through these hard times and helps us get through it. People need to learn to let people in and gain trust. The must learn to love themselves for who the are.

-By Slade No Runner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uARxM1Mb3W0

The Car Kid

I’m going to talk about my passion, and my passion is all about automotives - cars, trucks, basically anything with wheels and an engine. Ever since I was five years old, I have loved cars. When I was young, my parents would take me to the park. Well, I never wanted to get out of the truck, I loved that old Dodge.

     Honestly, cars aren’t just a passion for me, they are a way of life. There's just something about engines that calms me down and let's me get away from all the bullshit of everyday life. When I’m driving or in the garage, or just sitting in my car I’m calm, and there's nothing that can really bother me.

When my friend don’t know something about a car I’m usually the one they ask. If something is wrong with their car and they don’t know, they come to me. Out of my friends, I’m the one who everyone goes to when they need to know something, and I love it.

Because of all this, I got the name Carkid. Yup, that’s what I will probably be remembered for, not by how nice I was, or by my friends, but by some stupid name my friends gave me.

When I’m older, my dream is to own my own automotive shop where people can have their cars, detailed, fixed, restored, and even customized. It has been my dream since I was was young, probably five. Hopefully one day I’ll achieve my dream. As long as I keep my priorities straight (cars!), I’ll be fine.   

-By Brandon Wozniczko

Faded

“Vulnerability is the quality of being easily hurt or attacked.”

Vulnerability is like anxiety. Anxiety consumes you, it tells you that you can’t handle anything, that you're not worth anything, and it steals your self-control. It’s like being locked in a tomb, and there are no windows and no light other than a small candle’s flame, and then like a quiet whisper, the only thing keeping you sane is suddenly snuffed out, the flame is gone. Once everything fades into the restless inky blackness, the floor gives way beneath you, and suddenly all you have left is terror, dread, and a seemingly endless freefall to an agonizing, terrifying death. Yet sometimes, it seems to take over very slowly, dread inching its way into your very soul and there is no way to stop it, just as slowly, just as suddenly, reality comes crashing back, drifting back. Some days it doesn’t come back for a long time, yet other days it seems like only seconds have passed by. It never really feels like reality at first, but you just have to smile anyways, and hide the terror and the endless dread and never let anyone know about the constant lack of control and vulnerability that tortures you day and night. Don’t let them know how you always wonder what will set you off, or what they would do or think if they truly understood every second of your personal hell of panic and terror as you slowly fade away. That’s fine, it’s all fine, just don’t let anyone in ever, because feeling vulnerable is terrifying, and vulnerability is like anxiety. There is a great need for courage, and an everlasting search for hope within anxiety. But there is often little hope to find, it is buried deep into the depths, the endless abyss, and digging for it doesn’t always seem worth it, and the deeper you go the harder it is to come back and the harder it becomes to go on, reality starts to become lost and faded, it takes a lot of courage. Courage is difficult and painful and it requires vulnerability, but in the end it's a better option than death, which I know many people chose, but death is not the answer either. It's never the answer, because it doesn’t solve the problem, it just steals hope away forever, it’s just a more permanent way to run, and why run? Why fade away forever after fighting for so long? Even if you become vulnerable, you can overcome it, face it head on and stop the frantic, exhausting chase once and for all. It’s hard. It’s so hard, trust me I know, and it will always be hard. It always seems to sneak up on you when you least expect it or when you think you’ve made progress, like a ghost that haunts you, possibly forever, but keep fighting, that is what makes courage so important, that is why hope is continuously searched for, because being human is finding courage and reaching for hope, and fighting all the way to the end. Be human, have courage, reach for hope, and when you catch it don’t ever let go, don’t fade away, and always remember to fight.

https://youtu.be/dLdIx0epx3U
This song is meant to be listened to while you read my blog.  Give it a try and you will get the feeling of my written piece.

-By Jadyn Wheeler