in January i was...

In January of earlier this year I was on my way to Columbia, South Carolina to race in the final State Cross Country meet of my high school career. Cross Country is a sport in which teams from different high schools in the same region compete in a race that is 3.1 miles long(also known as a 5k). The state meet is where the best of the best go and compete in the last High school race of the year. Now Cross Country was my favorite sport and i had been working so hard for three years(goin on my fourth) to break my school record, which was a time of 17:53(17 min. 53 sec) made by a graduate of Crescent High School in 2009. Right before the race was about to start i began to get nervous as thoughts started to appear inside my head, " what if i do not do good after all the effort i have put into this", and so on and so on.

As I stepped on the line my heart began to pound, i was ready at last. the gun was fired and everyone was off to the races! I started out not doing as well as i wanted because i was in the middle of the pack. So i pushed myself to pick up the pace and catch up with the front. i kept telling myself, this is your last chance, how bad do you really want it? Finally i was down to my last mile, by this time i was gased but i had not given up. I felt as if i was going to pass out by this point. I looked up and could see the finish line, only two hundred yards to the finish. I aslo could see the timer above the finish line as it seemed like it was increasing at a rapid pase: 17:05, 17:06, 17:07. Right here is where it all came down to, this is where all my hard work had to pay off. I sprinted the last 150 yards and did not look back. I crossed the finished line, caught my breath, and took a hugh sign of relief. I had broken the school record by the skin of my teeth, with a time of 17:45! Words can not describe the excitment and joy that i felt for the rest of that day, or even that week. I was glad that all the hard work did pay off in the end.

Life takes some funny twists and turns...

             Life takes some funny twists and turns, which all add up to be successful in the end. When i was younger i was the wild child amongst two children. i would always be getting into trouble for numerous of different things. For example  i was always getting bad reports from school about my attitude. My brother on the other hand was the sweet, more caring and loving child of the family. He would always come home with good grades and an A for satisfaction.
             Everything started to take some turns and twists as my brother and I started to get older and into the teen stage of life. I am now the more sweet young man, with the good grades and always helping others. My brother is now the young and reckless adult, who is always getting into trouble coming home late at night without telling the parents where he has been. This is an example of how life takes some weird turns and twists that was never expected to happen.

Sometimes I feel like a...

      Sometimes I feel like a failure in life, but then things suddenly start to change for the better. Everything in my life the past few months just seemed as if it could not get any better. I went through a very serious breakup, backed into one of my friends car, lost a hundred dollar bill and almost had to sit out a semester of school because if an error that occurred.
     Things started changing for me when i realized first off, not to stress about the break up because if it was meant to be then we would be back together. Next I started thinking of ways to fix my friends car, also realizing that the car will be very easy to fix and costless. A few days later I was wondering around the car shop(where i work) and found the hundred dollar bill that i had lost a couple weeks before! I could not believe that everything was starting to fall back into place. Last but not least I had a meeting on Monday of last week to see if I would be able to get back into my classes that had been purged, and retrieve my life scholarship that I had once before. The meeting ended very well, with me being able to get the life scholarship back and being able to attend school again.
     So as I said before even though I once felt like a failure before, God helped me work through things to turn my life around and get things back on track.