A Few Things From Q1

A few things I've learned from these past few months of working both in and outside of school are these: Life is full of downs and ups, no matter how hard you work. However, it is also emotionally profitable to keep your spirits high, even in your darkest hour. I've come to realize this in many ways and form many avenues of experience. A major way I've come to this epiphany is through marching band. In several ways throughout the season, I had both grievances and delights (as did everyone else) and the one thing that kept everyone focused and on-track after we had expressed these feelings was our combined spirit for the band's success as well as our willpower to keep the band as successful as it had been through the season. Another way I've found this is not just through events I'm an active leader in however, but also in my own personal life. There have been (and probably will be) several times in my life I've either felt really sad/depressed as well as ecstatic and overjoyed about things. While the sad and depressed parts would obviously throw me off track in life, the overly-happy parts also had the similar effect of losing focus because of things such as over-confidence and feeling excessively luxurious in my ecstatic state. Whether I was in the middle of being up or down in my mood either way would cause me to fall off-track with my overall focuses in life, which would then lead me into a seemingly almost never ending depressed state (since I would come to see this loss of focus as failure). With time, however, I gained an understanding through maturity that whether you're happy or sad does not dictate your willpower to strive for a vision and goals in life. This has lead me on what I feel is a better path than before that could not only lead to furthering my overall maturity and professionalism, but also help to 'keep my head in the game' and never lose focus of where I see myself in the next twenty,thirty,forty,or even sixty years.