Wednesday, September 23, 2009
My Hometown
I've never really thought much about having a "hometown." I was born in Vicenza, Italy, but only lived in this beautiful place until I was 10 months old. My family and I then moved to Columbus, Georgia. I don't remember much about living here other than a few memories of daycare and Dippin-Dots at the mall. I also fondly remember the layout of our tiny home. Other than that the rest is foggy. At four we jumped a few states over to Louisiana. Again these memories are quite unclear, save St. Patrick's Day in Pre-School and seeing my aunt and cousins for the first time! Three short years later we moved north to Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. Oh the stories I could tell of this place! I will always have a visual picture of Main Street in my mind and the snow up to your knees. Up until sixth grade I lived and learned here. I have so many great memories and friends back there. Only five years ago did my family and I move here to Hurtsboro, Alabama, yet it still seems like yesterday that I lived in the Keystone State. Now I am back in the south once more, equaling my time north and south. So there-in-lies the question, where is my hometown? Is it south? The place I live now and will finish my memorable high school days? North? The area so many fond memories remain? Or how about Italy? My birthplace not remembered or seen but still loved? Well, as for me, I would say no where. I love to travel and I wish to see the world one day. I don't want to be from just one place, I wish to be of the world! My hometown is north, south, east, west and every place in between!
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
My Heroes
In a recent interview I was asked who my childhood hero was. I sat silent staring into the interviewers blank eyes. I racked my brain for the person that was "My hero." My parents? No, sure they were smart, sure they were inspiring, sure they were the people who raised me; but they were not my heroes. Gandhi was next to enter my mind. One of the greatest men of all time in my opinion. He lead people to independence, taught people lessons of patience and showed people change. Despite how inspiring he is to me though, he was not the hero I was searching for. A few more people popped up; family, friends, leaders and even some comic book heroes; but to no avail could I find that "One." Finally, after what seemed like a long pause, it hit me! Everyone I had thought of had something in common. These people had inspired me and taught me and made me want to be a better person! I quickly blurted out "Everyone!" then with a calm smile I explained my theory. There was no certain someone who had totally inspired me. I had pulled a quality, that I now had as a part of myself, from each and every single person I had met. I had many heroes, who over the many years had made me well, me. I lost the interview but I was very happy. Now, thinking back, I see that everyone is a hero to everyone else. We all learn different things from one another; whether they be to better ourselves or just know what we don't wish to be like, we learn from each other. I am a hero and so are you! This I believe.
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
*Live Your Life to the Fullest*
I live by one philosophy and it is to live life to the fullest. Life is like a rainbow, you need both the sun and the rain to make the colors appear. Three principles to living your life!
Principle 1: Live life to the fullest because the things you don't do, you will more than likely regret it! Last year at EDAY in Auburn, my group got to go to the aircraft room. We were given the opportunity to put our head in the nighty-two mph air dome. At first, I had to think, "This is a once in a lifetime thing and I will probably never get to do it again." I took the chance and it was awesome. I still tell everyone about it today!
Principle 2: Live life to the fullest because the best things in life are memories. My high school years are probably the best! "You better enjoy your high school years because it only comes once!" I have heard this line more than I have blinked. The memoires I have made throughout high school will follow me forever. It's not just the good ones or the bad ones, its all the memories. As my class come to the end of my high school year I will look back in the yearbook and remember that these are the days of my life!
Principle 3: Live life to the fullest because you never know when your time might come. Life is a gift and is full of color just like a rainbow. My rainbow has no pot of gold at the end, but a wonderful story of the memories and actions I have captured throughout my lifetime. I take my life one day at a time and at least five feet from the edge everyday. I never know when my time might come, so I make the best of my life everyday!
Love life, cherish life, and give life, for you never know what might bring to your doorstep.
Anna Eubanks
If You Don't Have a Smile, I'll Give You One of Mine.
I believe the world would be a better place if everyone would wear a smile. Here are a few reasons why.
Reason 1: Everyone should wear a smile because you never know whose day you will make easier. You never know what kind of day the people you walk pass have had. That person could've just lost a love one, lost their job, be in bankruptcy, or have no home. A smile can make a huge difference in how they feel. When you are given a warm smile, you feel like you are cared about. I know when I am given a smile, I have a much better day.
Reason 2: Everyone should wear a smile because it makes you feel pretty. A wide grin can boost your confidence. No matter if you are a boy or girl, everyone needs a little something to make them feel beautiful. A smile can really tell other people about you. When you smile you can see yourself from the inside out.
Reason 3: Everyone should wear a smile because they are contagious. Seldomly do we give a smile and it's not returned. Giving a smile makes you feel wonderful. I love to make people laugh and smile a lot! It makes them feel better, and I know it makes me feel alot better. When you walk past someone, smile and see what kind of response you get.
Some days we don't feel like smiling, but it is important to because who knows how it could influence someone else. If you see someone who is sad, turn their frown upside down!
Reason 1: Everyone should wear a smile because you never know whose day you will make easier. You never know what kind of day the people you walk pass have had. That person could've just lost a love one, lost their job, be in bankruptcy, or have no home. A smile can make a huge difference in how they feel. When you are given a warm smile, you feel like you are cared about. I know when I am given a smile, I have a much better day.
Reason 2: Everyone should wear a smile because it makes you feel pretty. A wide grin can boost your confidence. No matter if you are a boy or girl, everyone needs a little something to make them feel beautiful. A smile can really tell other people about you. When you smile you can see yourself from the inside out.
Reason 3: Everyone should wear a smile because they are contagious. Seldomly do we give a smile and it's not returned. Giving a smile makes you feel wonderful. I love to make people laugh and smile a lot! It makes them feel better, and I know it makes me feel alot better. When you walk past someone, smile and see what kind of response you get.
Some days we don't feel like smiling, but it is important to because who knows how it could influence someone else. If you see someone who is sad, turn their frown upside down!
"From Corner Stores to Skyscrapers"
If you live in a small town, the big cities around you may seem like somewhere you don't want to go and experience. But take it from me, a person who has lived in a town with the population of about 14,000 people, its well worth the experience and not what it seems. Here are four reasons why I believe everyone should spend some time in a big city.
First of all, I believe everyone should spend some time in a big city because if you don't, you will regret it. You hear people tell how rugged and unpleasant "big city" 'folks are, but all of this may not be true. Many people in big cities are tourists from small, unknown towns, just like you. Yes some of the people you meet there may not be nice but you find people like that everywhere you go, in cities big or small. On my trip to New York City, the "big apple", we went expecting the worst and expecting everyone to be rude and lack good ole southern hospitality, but in reality they were not much different from us. Yeah, some people wouldn't hold the door open as we walked in behind them or smile back when we glanced a smile at them but they were not as horrid as they were made out to be.
Secondly, I believe everyone should spend some time in a big city because it will give you a new outlook on life and allow you to see that everyone doesn't live, or even travel the way you do. The streets may be crowded with taxi's and the sidewalks, covered with venders selling hot dogs and newspapers, but its a whole new experience, especially if your from a town that has not one taxi. On my trip to New York all we did was walk or travel by taxi, which was very unusual to us. What was even more unusual to us were the taxi drivers who escorted us around, the majority of them Muslims, and any other denomination than Americans.
Thirdly, I believe everyone should spend some time in a big city because if your from a small town like Eufaula, you will be absolutely amazed at all the stores a big city has to offer. Many very large cities, like New York City, have stores the south has never even thought of having such as Gucci, Louis Vuitton and the Fao Schwarz Toy store, which is so packed you can barely get in, as well as many expensive resteraunts and even a McDonald's. But unlike our McDonalds, the one in New York has a doughnut shop in it and is surrounded by flat screen tv's and also has WiFi for your laptops. I think everyone should get to experience the fine clothing and resteraunt stores.
Lastly, I believe everyone should spend some time in a big city because thats where the majority of the movie stars of today live. I would love to visit Hollywood or Beverly Hills because I would like to happen to run into a movie star walking down the street running from the paparazzi, or see them driving in their new lamborghini down Sunset Boulevard. If you move to a big city, there are far more job opportunities than you can find in a small town. The only downside to moving from a small town to a big city would be that rent and housing is a lot more expensive in bigger cities so if you plan to move you better save up, at least until you find a job in the big city because jobs there pay way more.
Love the small city life you live in but eventually, you need to branch out, and go explore new, bigger things.
"But Ive seen it all in a small town
Had myself a ball in a small town
Married an l.a. doll and brought her to this small town
Now shes small town just like me"
Small town by John Mellencamp
First of all, I believe everyone should spend some time in a big city because if you don't, you will regret it. You hear people tell how rugged and unpleasant "big city" 'folks are, but all of this may not be true. Many people in big cities are tourists from small, unknown towns, just like you. Yes some of the people you meet there may not be nice but you find people like that everywhere you go, in cities big or small. On my trip to New York City, the "big apple", we went expecting the worst and expecting everyone to be rude and lack good ole southern hospitality, but in reality they were not much different from us. Yeah, some people wouldn't hold the door open as we walked in behind them or smile back when we glanced a smile at them but they were not as horrid as they were made out to be.
Secondly, I believe everyone should spend some time in a big city because it will give you a new outlook on life and allow you to see that everyone doesn't live, or even travel the way you do. The streets may be crowded with taxi's and the sidewalks, covered with venders selling hot dogs and newspapers, but its a whole new experience, especially if your from a town that has not one taxi. On my trip to New York all we did was walk or travel by taxi, which was very unusual to us. What was even more unusual to us were the taxi drivers who escorted us around, the majority of them Muslims, and any other denomination than Americans.
Thirdly, I believe everyone should spend some time in a big city because if your from a small town like Eufaula, you will be absolutely amazed at all the stores a big city has to offer. Many very large cities, like New York City, have stores the south has never even thought of having such as Gucci, Louis Vuitton and the Fao Schwarz Toy store, which is so packed you can barely get in, as well as many expensive resteraunts and even a McDonald's. But unlike our McDonalds, the one in New York has a doughnut shop in it and is surrounded by flat screen tv's and also has WiFi for your laptops. I think everyone should get to experience the fine clothing and resteraunt stores.
Lastly, I believe everyone should spend some time in a big city because thats where the majority of the movie stars of today live. I would love to visit Hollywood or Beverly Hills because I would like to happen to run into a movie star walking down the street running from the paparazzi, or see them driving in their new lamborghini down Sunset Boulevard. If you move to a big city, there are far more job opportunities than you can find in a small town. The only downside to moving from a small town to a big city would be that rent and housing is a lot more expensive in bigger cities so if you plan to move you better save up, at least until you find a job in the big city because jobs there pay way more.
Love the small city life you live in but eventually, you need to branch out, and go explore new, bigger things.
"But Ive seen it all in a small town
Had myself a ball in a small town
Married an l.a. doll and brought her to this small town
Now shes small town just like me"
Small town by John Mellencamp
"Everyone Deserves Happiness"
Our world population is 6.8 billion and out of the billions of different cultures, religions, and race everybody deserves to be with somebody. I believe nobody should be alone and everybody deserves happiness. Here are three reasons why I believe this.
Reason 1: Nobody should be alone because God put everybody on this earth for a reason, and the person you were meant to be with is somewhere out there. You shouldn't go out and look for the person who you think you are suppose to be with, because if it's fate it will just happen. God has a plan for everybody and what happens, happens, there is really nothing you can do about it so live your life and wait for that special somebody to come live it with you.
Reason 2: Nobody should be alone; even if you like the same sex. Everybody thinks it is such a bad thing for gay people to get married, but hey if that's who they love and want to be with then they deserve happiness just as much as you do. Gay marriage is illegal in certain states and, to me, I think the people that make these rules are trying to ruin other people's happiness because they are not happy themselves. Everybody is going to love who they want to love and for people to try to stop that is cruel and heartless. People just need to realize that this world is full of different people who want different things and everybody deserves to be happy.
Reason 3: Nobody should be alone because going through relationships in your life is the thing that makes you stronger and you find who you really are. Some people think it's a bad thing to go through relationships because you get your heart broken, but relationships are fun. You can have some of the best memories to look back on through different relationships; some may be bad and some may be good. If you go through life scared and afraid to take chances with people, you might miss some of best opportunities and even miss the one you were meant to be with. " 'Love is a Battlefield,' " and your going to have to go through a lot of heart aches and pain but it's worth it when you find Mr. or Mrs. right.
Life without love is like fries without ketchup, its plain and horrible. Everybody deserves to be happy with somebody, no matter what the circumstance is. Nobody should be alone in this huge world we live in.
Reason 1: Nobody should be alone because God put everybody on this earth for a reason, and the person you were meant to be with is somewhere out there. You shouldn't go out and look for the person who you think you are suppose to be with, because if it's fate it will just happen. God has a plan for everybody and what happens, happens, there is really nothing you can do about it so live your life and wait for that special somebody to come live it with you.
Reason 2: Nobody should be alone; even if you like the same sex. Everybody thinks it is such a bad thing for gay people to get married, but hey if that's who they love and want to be with then they deserve happiness just as much as you do. Gay marriage is illegal in certain states and, to me, I think the people that make these rules are trying to ruin other people's happiness because they are not happy themselves. Everybody is going to love who they want to love and for people to try to stop that is cruel and heartless. People just need to realize that this world is full of different people who want different things and everybody deserves to be happy.
Reason 3: Nobody should be alone because going through relationships in your life is the thing that makes you stronger and you find who you really are. Some people think it's a bad thing to go through relationships because you get your heart broken, but relationships are fun. You can have some of the best memories to look back on through different relationships; some may be bad and some may be good. If you go through life scared and afraid to take chances with people, you might miss some of best opportunities and even miss the one you were meant to be with. " 'Love is a Battlefield,' " and your going to have to go through a lot of heart aches and pain but it's worth it when you find Mr. or Mrs. right.
Life without love is like fries without ketchup, its plain and horrible. Everybody deserves to be happy with somebody, no matter what the circumstance is. Nobody should be alone in this huge world we live in.
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