Plans After High School
After high school there are numerous things I want to do and accomplish in my life. I want to go to college. I have already enrolled into Mira Costa College. I also want to continue my music career. I want to tryout for a DCI group, Then tryout for a WGI group. I have to raise money for those activities. I will live with my parents and have no bills to pay. I will be working on campus at Mira Costa in between classes. So I will have a very busy schedule.
Emotional Wellness
I want to improve my Emotional wellness. To me, Emotional Wellness is learning how to overcome problems in your life. Being happy is the goal. I want to achieve happiness. I want to have the ability to have empathy. Not sympathy, empathy. Being able to understand and relate with others. Putting yourself in someone else’s shoes. I believe being able to do that is a key to understanding the people around you and making friends, meeting new people.
Like I said though, finding pure happiness is the main goal. One thing that I can do to achieve this goal is Spending time with my family, attending family functions. Spending time with my closes friends can also be helpful to my emotional wellness; knowing that I have people looking out for me and just knowing that I have friends to talk to when I need help.
Emotional Wellness involves handling successes and disappointments, living life on life’s terms by responding rather than reacting. To keep me In the perfect balance I Go to church, I read the Bible and pray. Sometimes I use an Online Bible. I’ll take time to just stop and relax. Kind of like meditating, but taking the time to notice the beauty around me and remind myself to enjoy and take the time to appreciate all I am blessed with. The people i meet at church are always friendly. The group of friends you can meet are really uplifting. It’s good to keep in mind who is speaking into your life. Is it positive, or Negative? Are your friends uplifting you or holding you back from reaching your full potential?
Environmental Wellness
For my environmental wellness I already do things to help my environment. Doing the easiest thing possible; Throwing your trash away in the trash can. I try to pick up litter and throw it in the garbage can when I have the chance. I also recycle plastics and cans. People litter everywhere and all the time. When my parent litter I tell them to please pick it up. I let them know that I do not agree with it and to please throw it in the trash. If people refuse to pick it up then I will step in and pick it up for them. I know that it going to end up somewhere and it going to have a negatively affect animals and their ecosystem. At school Kids always leave their food and trash on the floor, or they leave it on the table. It unbelievable how much trash is left behind.
It makes me upset because they leave their trash next to the trash can rather than just throwing it away. I am going to be investing in buying a reusable water bottle to cut down on the amount of plastic bottles I use. I know plastic takes years to decompose. The average time is 450 years to decompose. There are different kinds of plastic, so many veiry. How Long Does it Take a Plastic Bottles to Biodegrade? Just like people keep their house clean, I try to keep my community clean. The world is our home, we should all take pride in keeping it clean.
Financial Wellness
For my financial wellness I will plan on getting my very own credit card (California Coast Credit Union). Not too soon though, I will wait until I am 19 or 20 years of age. Once I get my credit card I will carefully begin building up my credit score. If my friends if going to purchase an Item with cash, I will have him give me the money and I’ll use my credit card to purchase the item. Then I will pay off that purchase with the cash my friend gave to me, and If I were to pay it off during the grace period then I can easily avoid paying interest.
Adding on to that I plan on opening up my own Checking & Saving Account. I want to begin saving money for my plan/goals in the future such as Trying out for Pulse Percussion and Pow Percussion (WGI). I will be working on the Mira Costa College campus in between classes. I will need the job to be able to pay my own Car Insurance and the Tags for my car. I own a 2012 Chevy Captiva. The good thing is that My car is all paid off, so I don’t have to make any more car payments. I find no need to buy a new car any time soon. I want save up money for WGI. I want to try out for Pulse Percussion. It cost about $2,000 to march in the organization. Once I turned 23, I can no longer participate in the organization. 23 is about the age out year.
Intellectual Wellness
For my Intellectual Wellness, I will continue to Education such as attending college. At the moment I plan on going to Mira Costa College and studying Photography and Graphic Design. My Step-Father is planning on setting up a tour for Palomar College. I had the chance to visit Mira Costa College, but I didn’t get to go to the Palomar college tour. I want to see what both campuses have to offer so I can then decide which campus I will be attending in the fall.
I’m not sure if I am going to study music in College,but I do plan on marching for an independent group such as Pulse Percussion, or Pow Percussion, or Broken City, etc. Music is one of the only activities that activates, stimulates, and uses the entire brain. So music is a big portion of my intellectual wellness. Its helps with my creativity. I love to write my own music. Photography and Ceramics are all a part of my intellectual wellness. They are all subjects where I can use my creative art skills.
I plan on keeping these hobbies of mine (music, ceramics, and photography). I also plan on learning Graphic design.
Physical Wellness
My idea of physical Wellness is being in good shape. Not being overweight, and staying active. My goal I to keep going to the gym consistently. There has been times where I stop going because I have a busy schedule.
I plan on training with friends Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. (Triangle Choke )My friends and I are going to try and meet up on sundays, early in the morning. That is one way to stay in shape and build muscle and stamina. I will also be attending Fitness 19 every week. Not every day most likely, but I am going attempt to go the the gym every week. For a while, I’m not pleased on how my body looks so I am going to try and do something about it. I just have to begin with the first step.
To be physically well, I would also watch what I eat. I need to start cutting off the junk food. My Mother is starting to make healthy smoothies. They are pretty good too! We’ll mix fruits and kale, or spinach and blend it all up. I would like to start the day off with something healthy every morning. Giving my my body healthier foods will be better for my health, easier to build some muscle and lose fat. It will also in a way be respecting my body by giving it the best foods possible. Another activity that I want to begin learning is parkour. I have always been interested in parkour. Being able to maneuver through obstacles in the most efficient way.
Spiritual Wellness
For my spiritual Wellness, I have been going to North coast Church every Sunday. For the first time, I went to the young adult ministry. Its called the Jordan. I plan on going to the Jordan regularly every Thursday night. My friend Jacob also invited me to join him on Monday nights and Wednesday nights. We will meet up at the Corner Cafe and drinks some coffee and just read the bible. I am honestly looking forward to meeting up because I don’t get to spend a lot of time with my friend Jacob. So I am pretty stoked to have a bible study every Monday and Wednesday. I have been going through some rough times and I’m trying to to not get the best of me. Going to church every week is comforting and I know that God always reminds me that everything is going to be ok. My focus is on building a relationship with god.
I plan on meeting new people in the Jordan and making new friends that will really stick with me and uplift me. I’m beginning to read the story of Joseph. It’s in the book of genesis. That the first book in the bible. The story of Joseph is about his brothers sell him to the Egyptians and after many years, Joseph meets his brothers again. The brothers do not recognize him. Joseph became the pharaoh’s right hand man. Joseph then confronts his siblings but then forgives them for their doings. He then convinces the Pharaoh to let pick out land and live in Egypt. Because of Joseph, the Egyptians and the Hebrews lived in Harmony. Until generations later, the Egyptians begin turning on the Hebrews. That’s the next book called Exodus. Thats where the story of Moses begins.
Social Wellness
I am in between being a shy person and a talkative person. When it come to new people I usually don’t talk much unless i’m introduced or they come to me and talk. From there I just talk to the person. I guess its not that I’m shy, but I just kind of mind my own business. If it’s just one person and I then Ill start talking to them before it gets awkward. I will admit that in the streets out in public. If I lock eyes with a stranger I do say hello. Sometimes I ask how they are doing, then I carry on. I have a good amount of friends that I hangout with. But a LOT of people know me, and I don’t know them. I feel that having Dreads makes me really well known around school. Everyone knows me as the guy with long dreads that’s in drumline.
I usually meet my friends in person. Sometimes I meet people on Social Media, but I Don’t truly become friends with them Until I meet them in person. I know that people act different on social media that they do in person. They build themselves up to be this perfect person and that they are super nice. But really, they can be shallow people.