Minh Tran
Vietnamese
Seventeen; 94xtill
This is a writing blog, I don't post on weekends.
Driving a Honda.
SoCal 562 ; Lakewood x Long Beach
Junior @ Lakewood High
Taken by Kristal Sosethan; 12.01.10 ♥
HER over any other FEMALES.
You say you feel me, but really you will never feel what I feel. Unless you have been where I have been and felt what I have felt. But until you do, don’t say “I feel you nigga”. We may live on the same planet and go to the same school but when we go our separate ways, you don’t know what happens to me. I can express my pains and sadness but you will never know how it actually feels. Don’t pretend like you know what I am talking about, thank you for the sympathy but no thank you, I don’t need it.
“I feel you nigga” is another bullshit for “let me hear more of your pains/sadness so I can use it against you”.
I hate how most popular clothing brands are just riding off on their brand. They’re creating shitty shirts and overpricing their clothing just because they have their logo on it.
Freshmen Year:
We are at a new school, filled with tons of people and the feeling of loneliness and nervousness. We are overwhelmed how big the school is and how much students there are. We’re lost around this big school and making new friends is difficult since we’re shy. Going to our classes and meeting our peers and teachers, how exciting. We spot out friends from middle school and we feel so secure since we know something familiar to us. Going up four flights up stairs is tiring and we’re scared we might fall and embarrass ourselves. We tend to be immature in this early stage: we do obnoxious things and we laugh at the words “sex”, “penis”, and “vagina”. Sometimes we find that “special person” but most of the time that person isn’t ready to be committed yet since it is just too early. We see dramas and fights around school, we would hurry to see what’s going on. We’re introduced to drugs and sex, and we’re in a lost of speech. We might slack off in school and we wouldn’t know that it would hurt us in the near future. We get into trouble with our teachers and maybe get into fights, you know just acting like a freshmen….
Sophomore Year:
After a year of being nervous, scared, and immature of coming into a new and big school, we kind of know the ropes of high school. We know some of the teachers and administrators, and we made a couple of new friends. At this point our immaturity level has decreased but it is still there. Here and there we would fool around in class: throwing papers across the room and doing immature things. Some of you people will meet that “special person” and you two last for a very long time. In this stage, we deal a lot with break ups and dramas. Sometimes we think we’re “bad ass” but in reality we aren’t. During this year it’ll differentiate us between the “bad people” and the “good people”. Meaning are we that type of person to slack off in school and not give a fuck about anything or are we going to get our act together for the our future? We have to deal with rumors, and we never really had to deal with this before. So we go overboard, we let the rumors get the best of us. But it’s okay I guess since it is our sophomore year. In this year sometimes we can know who is really our friends and who is just using us but this usually happens in our junior year. We learn that they’re cheaters and liars out there, and we have to keep a look out on those people. We get back stabbed from our “friends”. But we just go on with our lives….
Junior Year:
At this point we fully know the ropes around our school. We join clubs and tryout for sports so it’ll be better for us to get into a certain college. Most of us are fully matured. We know how to deal with dramas and rumors; we just ignore them. Sometimes, we messed up in our first and second year of high school and we’re paying the consequences, where we do not have enough credits to graduate. We do everything in our ability to get back on tracks but it isn’t enough. We messed up, badly. And they kick you out of high school and you go into a program where you can get your credits back on track…. And for the other people that didn’t slack off, your stress isn’t over yet. Some or most of you guys are taking AP classes, and you’re studying your butt off. In this stage, you can balance school life with your personal life. There’s nothing wrong with smoking and drinking but do it in reason. You feel like your high school journey has gone too fast and soon you’ll miss it. But then again you want to go to college and start living your own life…..
Senior Year:
Finally you’ve reached this stage where you’re almost graduating. You’ll miss your friends and teachers. For some people, they can’t graduate since they’re behind on their credits. But for the other people, your hard studying has finally paid off. You’re a young adult at this stage. You’re figuring out which college you want to apply too and about your future job(s). Life has flew by so fast for you and you start to reminisce about your childhood wishing you can go back and relive them. Your journey through high school is ending and a new story will develop when you head off for college….
There’s nothing you can do except sit there and ponder about what had happened. You ask yourself over and over again, “What did I do wrong? Was it something I said or did?”. “Why did you leave me? You could oftold me and we would of fixed it”.
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People (as in our “friends” and adults) think that we teenagers cannot be in love until we are an adult. They think that we’re just too young to know and feel love. They’re wrong, we felt love ever since we were a baby by our parents. Our parents gave us unconditional love, so don’t tell us we don’t know what love is. Life is all about finding oneself and finding that special person. We can still focus on school while being in a relationship. Why pass up an opportunity to be with a person that is willing to treat us right? Being in a relationship comes with happiness and sadness, but that’s life. We have to experience love as a teenager so as time progresses we can know what we are/we aren’t looking for in a person. There is nothing wrong with being in love, we just have to know how to balance our love life and our other priorities. Even if a relationship doesn’t work out, don’t be so sad at least it happened. Whatever happened in that relationship (good or bad) you can choose to bring that into the next relationship.
Learn from our mistakes and experiences, that’s how we can get through life.
When you’re off to college, make sure to give your parents a phone call here and there. If you don’t, they’ll worry about you even more. Call them on your free time to let them know how’s college life and how you’re living on your own. Most of the time, if you don’t call your parents they think you don’t care about them. You’re living your life and they’re living theirs. Include your parents into your life and keep them up-to-date with your life. They’re not getting any younger, don’t let them worry too much.
If you truly love your parents, no matter how busy you’re, you would find an opportunity in your time to give them a call.
Everyone is capable of doing the “impossible”. Nothing in this world is impossible because through time, we the people of the United States of America proved to other people that there can be an African- American president and there can be civil rights to every citizen on America. If we put our heart and mind into something, we’ll be able to conquer what we call “impossible”. All we need is time, dedication, and patience without the three of those things we cannot conquer the “impossible”. We cannot just give up every time we failed, we get back up and try, try, and try again. The only losers are the people who haven’t attempt to try the “impossible”. You’re not a loser if you have attempted the “impossible”, give yourself some props for at least trying because no matter if you have failed or succeeded at least you gave it a shot.
Nothing in this world is impossible, remember that.
I honestly have a kind and loving heart. I love to help people with their problems or when they’re down, I love being a good Samaritan. I cannot pass someone that is knocked down and isn’t able to get out. My heart isn’t that cold just to let them struggle like that. I am there for everyone, even if they are not there for me. I don’t mind if they aren’t there for me, as long as I am helping someone with something it makes me happy. I have great sympathy for them, their sadness makes me sad, their anger makes me angry, and their struggles are my struggles. I know life can be tough and that’s why I offer my hands to them. Their problems are my problems.
Get your act together before your significant other talks to a different person. And is telling that person what an asshole you’re and the issues you two are having, that person is picking up their broken pieces. Don’t let another person clean up your mess. Get your act together before they leave your stupid ass for someone that can treat them way better and is willing to listen to their problems.
Oh, your parents is a drug addict? They don’t care about your grades? They don’t even care about you? They let you do what you want and get into trouble.
You think that is okay? You let their careless actions ruin your life, you have to make something better of yourself. You cannot fall into the same path as them. You seen where it leads, you have to reach a point where enough is enough. You have to get your act together so you don’t end up like your deadbeat parents. You think having drug addict parents is cool because they don’t care if you do drugs and what not, NO it is not “cool”, be a leader not a follower. You have to get out of that lifestyle because it is bad. The only outcome you will have is: jail or dead...
Your parents don’t care about your grades so you let it slip? No, learn to better yourself.Your parents can’t raise you the right way? Learn how to raise yourself.
Our actions reflect on our parents. If we have bad behaviors in school it shows that our parents doesn’t give us enough strictness. If we’re rude and have no manners, people automatically assume that also our parents are rude and has no manners.
If we are outstanding students and citizens with proper manners it shows that our parents raised us well.
Do you get my point? We have to watch our actions because it reflects on our parents, good or bad. We do not want to put a bad name on our parents, so think before you act.
Whenever I learn about a new career I get so intrigued into it. I have changed my mind about my future careers ever since I was a little boy. Even until this day I cannot choose which career I want to be in. My mind flips through careers like we flip through TV shows.
Stop acting like we’re the shit and that we know everything because we don’t. If we actually took the time to listen rather than just blabbering our mouth all of the time, we would learn something. We would learn something about life and education. Aren’t we tired of hearing ourselves talk? Just take a breather and open up your ears. You’ll be surprise on the things you’ll learn. Listen to people’s opinions so you can have a better perspective on things, turn off the electronics and pick up a book and educate yourself, and don’t be close minded it won’t get you far in life.
Be the child that your parents gets to brag about to their friends here and there. Don’t just let them listen to their old friends brag about their daughter or son. Your parents would feel sad and ashamed because their kid(s) isn’t getting an award for their academics, or going to a certain university, or getting straight A’s, etc. Give your parents something to talk about, accomplish something that is worth wild. Adults talk to each other and they compare each others kids. Make your parents proud of you and give them an opportunity to show you off to their friends.
I wish my parents can brag about me, but I have failed them.
You know when you’re in love or if a person really means something to you (a family member or a close friend), when you would give up your own life without any thoughts for that person. You would rather see them live than die.
