I am one of those girls that is influenced extremely easily and have always had older friends. They are all in a different stage in life that I am which makes me feel so much older for some reason. I have friends who are turning 20, squealing about which colleges they finally decided to go to, or are working as much as they can to make money and support themselves.
This might have influenced me in my life. I am weirdly mature for my age. I can easily get a job, I just got my third, set up my schedule to be almost like a pre-college, and am taking a college class over the summer- just like all my older friends.
These influences can be either good or bad depending on how you see it. I know exactly where I am going in life and am extremely excited...but I am striving less and less to achieve short term goals unfortunately such as grades. I care about what the numbers on my report card look like, but it is so difficult to show it. On the day before my AP environmental exam, I easily could have studied. My brother needed some hours driving so he and my dad drove up to Talking Rock on the back roads to eat at one of Georgia's best barbecue restaurants. Of course instead of studying, I decided to join the two and cruise in the sun on the country roads then go home and watch America's Next Top Model.
It is definitely important to focus one day at a time. I have my entire life planned out. Since I was 10 years old, I wanted to be a graphic designer. I am going to push through my classes, go to the hardcore art program at Georgia State, take drawing and painting 1 and 2, graphic design 2, and AP 2D to prepare. That is four art classes senior year which will make it that much harder to focus on the core classes that affect my GPA to even keep hope that sounds so easy to get.
There are so many different types of people in the world. Some are intrigues by the way math equations work, enjoy doing chemistry programs, and find literature absolutely fascinating. I have always been in honors and AP classes, but as I get older, I am getting more and more overwhelmed by how much I cannot get myself to feel as passionate to study like the rest of my peers. I feel like my interests are the blow off ones that will make you less successful in life. My strong points are art and music. I was weirdly good in middle school-first chair 7th and 8th grade, made wind ensemble sophomore year, and almost made Allstate Band in 7th grade. Once I figure out what I am passionate about, I can easily bust my ass, but the more respected classes to be good at are extremely hard for me. Then again, I have a brother who is a genius at math-literally. He was comfortable doing multiplication and division in kindergarten and never had to try to get perfect grades as a young child. In the creative part of his brain, there is almost nothing. He hates drawing, cannot create a composition for his life, but it is completely fine because he has his other gifts. Artists are actually needed- someone needs to make billboards for the advertisements, create restaurant layouts, and make the cute Christmas cards to send mom in college. Society looks down on art majors because they do not take the same kind of brain power as chemistry and economics, but the differences in people in the world create the beautiful balance.
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