You never know when inspiration will hit, and it just so happened that it has hit me tonight at 10:30. I am home alone and was working on my senior write up, I had just finished when the urge to blog came to me. It has been a while since I have last posted a blog, for those who were waiting for my latest installment, I am sorry the wait was so long but it has finally ended. Let me catch you up on my life.
Things have been going pretty good for me over the past month, there have been a few bumps but I can usually find a way to straighten them up. School is going pretty good, things are starting to move along and the teachers have gotten the rust off. The only class I am having a problem in is Calculus 1. I am in Calc 1 and 2 this year as opposed to year long Calc 1, the pace is brutal however I don't feel that it is to fast for me. I feel like I am learning the material but I am not performing well on the tests. Due to this fact I currently have a 78%. I am working hard and hope to have at least a very high B if not an A so I can keep my 4.0 going. All of my other classes are going well. They are a lot of work but I am managing to maintain good grades. Doing graduation project independent study is a lot of work, but now that I have gotten together with John Yoho things are getting done. He really knows how to use that MacBook, I am sold on it.
Another big issue I have been dealing with this past month has been college. Its that time of year for me and the search must go on. I feel a lot better now after learning more about athletic scholarships and visits. I have a few official visits planned for athletics at Lehigh and Bucknell. I am not sure how those are going to go I am more than a little anxious about staying there on campus with the athletes. I am planning on going to visit UMBC this Saturday just for a regular visit with my cousin Zach. I am going to take many factors into consideration as I search for my future college.
The quest for the State Championship has begun, I started my lifting regime this month and I am excited to start my off season work outs. So far I have only had one real work out, my trainer worked for Farmers and Mechanics and ever since they became PNC he has had to work late and since then I have been unable to work out with him. That has not dampened my spirits I am lucky to have strength training where I have been working harder than ever in order to prepare. My goal is in sight it is up to me to grab it.
This sort of leads in to what got me so excited about blogging tonight. Last year for track I didn't do as well as I had hoped I might. I experienced injuries and flaws and techniques and so many things did not go as I had planned. Well the one thing I did get from all of that was experience. I got experience dealing with injury, experience against good competition and experience in the state track meet. This goes along with the quote "Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want."
How often do people fail to achieve there goal and they don't look at the positive side. The positive side is that while you may have not gotten what you wanted but you do have more experience now than you did. I believe that experience is everything, until you've done something on your own and for your self you will never truly understand it. With the experience you gain through success or failure you are better equipped not only for next time but also for life. Your life is influenced by what you experience and how you react to it. You don't always have a choice in what you experience but you do have a choice in how you react and handle it. Love your life and take something from every situation in life, because life is one long lesson. Unless you experience it you will never know it, and that goes for all things in life. You get more form experience than any book, movie or person could every tell you, because what you get from experience is personal and it is connected to you. Live life, gain experience and learn from it.
This went in a whole lot of directions but I love every single one of them. Take the time to think about some experience you have and how you can take advantage of it.
Hope to get back to you soon
Josh Mayne
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Sunday, September 2, 2007
The First Week Of My Last Year
This is very frustrating, I had just composed a beautiful blog and was trying to put a video in it and I lost the whole thing!!!! Here it goes again.]
Well school is back in session and with one week down there are only 175 more days to go, but whose counting. I am loaded this first semester I have three AP classes; Comp., Calculus, and Physics. The end of the day however is a little easier with strength training. So by the end of the day I am drained both physically and mentally. It feels good to be back in school were gaining knowledge is the name of the game. A friend used to always tell me "Learn a lot" as we parted ways in the hallways. Is school all about learning and knowledge or has it become more grade oriented, think about that. With no after school activities I was forced to find my own. After school on Tuesday I went to Boarder and bought a book I am very excited to read and then Emma and I went over to The Muse to browse the store and visit our friend Ashley Guilday, The Muse is not a very Manly store. Then on Wednesday John Yoho and Ashely came over to have dinner with the family. John saved all of the pigs life's since he was the one who reported the escape. On Thursday I went to praise band practice which was fun. Then their is the state fair which was this weekend. I didn't do as well as I hoped; two of my pigs didn't make weight and I didn't place well in fitting and showing but there is always next year. I might be going down again tomorrow.
My last blog was not up to snuff with the quality that I like to pump out, so I will no longer be writting my blogs before I type them, and I hope you all find this one better than the last. I will end this blog with a couple of thoughts and than share a new perspective that I have found.
My first though has to do with life and the inspiration comes some from my inspiration wall, but mostly from a viedo that was played on the TV show ICaught, if I can't manage to get it up It is called Three Words (More) and can be found on YouTube. The thought is this "Life is more than being Alive" take some time to search for your own meanign, I can't remeber what I was going to say. Please take the time to view the video and apply this to your life, and I think I just got the video so your in luck.
The other topic I have is patience. There are just a few things I would like to discuss about patience. The first being That being patient doesn't mean in activity, just because your be patient and waiting for somethign to happen doesn't necessarily mean you don't do anything. In some cases being patient means being patient in failure. If you try something and it doesn't work don't get frustrated practice patience but keep trying. This only applys for some cases. Another thing to distinguish is to make sure you are really being patient and aren't just really scared of acting. This can be worse than being inpatient because you are only fooling yourself. Last but not least is to not use patience as an excuse for not doing something. Being patience is a good quality but if used in the wrong way can really hinder you.
Last but not least I want to share a new perspective I have on life. This perspective I could begin to see as the end of last school year came near. The new perspective is on school and life, I don't view school as being such a drag anymore and it doesn't seem to take up as much of the day. I mean school is over at 2:15, there is still a lot of daylight left. I also view life as being more than a student as I enter my last year of school I can feel my way of thinking change. There is more of an importance on the future instead of on the past. I am not explaining it very well but I hope you at least get the idea. Overall it has to do with getting older, which is exactly what I found when reading the Bible a day after realizeing this Change of Perspective 1 Corinthians 13:11."When I was child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me." I am not claiming to be a man but this helps sum up some of the change in perspective that comes with age.
Well school is back in session and with one week down there are only 175 more days to go, but whose counting. I am loaded this first semester I have three AP classes; Comp., Calculus, and Physics. The end of the day however is a little easier with strength training. So by the end of the day I am drained both physically and mentally. It feels good to be back in school were gaining knowledge is the name of the game. A friend used to always tell me "Learn a lot" as we parted ways in the hallways. Is school all about learning and knowledge or has it become more grade oriented, think about that. With no after school activities I was forced to find my own. After school on Tuesday I went to Boarder and bought a book I am very excited to read and then Emma and I went over to The Muse to browse the store and visit our friend Ashley Guilday, The Muse is not a very Manly store. Then on Wednesday John Yoho and Ashely came over to have dinner with the family. John saved all of the pigs life's since he was the one who reported the escape. On Thursday I went to praise band practice which was fun. Then their is the state fair which was this weekend. I didn't do as well as I hoped; two of my pigs didn't make weight and I didn't place well in fitting and showing but there is always next year. I might be going down again tomorrow.
My last blog was not up to snuff with the quality that I like to pump out, so I will no longer be writting my blogs before I type them, and I hope you all find this one better than the last. I will end this blog with a couple of thoughts and than share a new perspective that I have found.
My first though has to do with life and the inspiration comes some from my inspiration wall, but mostly from a viedo that was played on the TV show ICaught, if I can't manage to get it up It is called Three Words (More) and can be found on YouTube. The thought is this "Life is more than being Alive" take some time to search for your own meanign, I can't remeber what I was going to say. Please take the time to view the video and apply this to your life, and I think I just got the video so your in luck.
The other topic I have is patience. There are just a few things I would like to discuss about patience. The first being That being patient doesn't mean in activity, just because your be patient and waiting for somethign to happen doesn't necessarily mean you don't do anything. In some cases being patient means being patient in failure. If you try something and it doesn't work don't get frustrated practice patience but keep trying. This only applys for some cases. Another thing to distinguish is to make sure you are really being patient and aren't just really scared of acting. This can be worse than being inpatient because you are only fooling yourself. Last but not least is to not use patience as an excuse for not doing something. Being patience is a good quality but if used in the wrong way can really hinder you.
Last but not least I want to share a new perspective I have on life. This perspective I could begin to see as the end of last school year came near. The new perspective is on school and life, I don't view school as being such a drag anymore and it doesn't seem to take up as much of the day. I mean school is over at 2:15, there is still a lot of daylight left. I also view life as being more than a student as I enter my last year of school I can feel my way of thinking change. There is more of an importance on the future instead of on the past. I am not explaining it very well but I hope you at least get the idea. Overall it has to do with getting older, which is exactly what I found when reading the Bible a day after realizeing this Change of Perspective 1 Corinthians 13:11."When I was child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me." I am not claiming to be a man but this helps sum up some of the change in perspective that comes with age.
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