Before I begin this final blog prompt, I must say that it has been an absolute pleasure reading your entries each week. I've been able to learn so much about each of you through this process, and I have a great amount of respect for the openness that many of you approached this assignment with every time. I saved this particular topic for last because I feel it's an appropriate question to ask anyone about to embark on a new journey. So, without further ado, here is your final blog topic:
Some things are important to us from a very early age and stay important all our lives. Other things are important to us for a while, then their importance fades.
What’s important to you at this time in your life? What has meaning in your life?
Something as complex as family relationships might be important; making and keeping friends might be important; activities at school or elsewhere might be important; how you’re doing in school and planning for your future might occupy you now—or, perhaps, a more eccentric and lovely thing like reading every word of a favorite book.
Why do you think these things are important—either to you or generally?
And for the final time, write about it.
Before I start to write my last blog for my 'Period 1 - Gina Cuiffo' section on Blogger, I have to say that this year's homeroom was the most fun homeroom I have had throughout my high school career. Although I walked in late borderline every day, with a coffee in hand and sleepys in my eyes, I was always happy to be greeted by a smiling face that always seemed to make me laugh and enjoy my mornings. This is the kind of thing that indirectly is the answer to my blog.
There are many things in life that can be considered important, but that is such a vague statement; what are the things that are truly important? These are the things that have serious meaning and value in life.
I think that one of the most important things right now in my life is finding people that can surround me with positive energy and good karma. When I spend an excess amount of time with people I am not that close with, I start realizing how truly special my closer friends are. I don’t always understand or approve of other people’s actions, so when I have to be around them it makes me feel out of my element. When I am with my best and closest friends, however, I am in my comfort zone and I know that my friends all like to do the same types of things as me.
One example of this feeling was this weekend. I spent Friday night and Saturday night in Wildwood, New Jersey. The whole time I was there, so was the rest of the Class of 2012, and of course some graduates and undergraduates. We all spent so much time together and had a lot of fun, but I did not always feel like I was in my comfort zone. Of course I know that certain people can have separate opinions and they will usually do what they want to do, but I just could not agree with the way some people presented themselves. It was important for me to try to be nice to everyone, but I did not hold back when people started to physically put me and my friends in danger. I know that my friends and I agree on what were the right actions to display this weekend, but putting people’s health in the way so that you can have fun is something that I do not agree with.
All in all, while I did have a fun time this weekend, I realized that my close friends are the people that I really want around me and in my life. I had the most fun when I was with only a few people just hanging out, instead of those moments when the whole class was together. I value people’s honesty, trust, and respect, and those are the qualities that I find to be necessary in a friendship. I learned a deeper lesson, that being that close, best friends are the ones that will pick you up when you fall and wipe your tears, so you should always keep them around long enough so that you have time to have some fun with them and make lifetime memories.
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