Throughout our lives we experience things both negative and positive to shape who we become as we grow older and all the more wiser. I've grown up with a very opportunistic life, in which I've got to experience more than a lot of kids my age got to. These experiences are what make me the overly ambitious teen I am today.
My first experience I'm grateful for is the job I'm currently at, it's had a big impact on my life and has helped me learn a few things. During the summer of my senior year of high school I found a job working as a student teacher for a child care center in my town, teaching kids 2-5. My mom told me it would be could because it's like a guys version of birth control, her words (*laughs*). It's really taught me how to be mature, and I feel is actually helping me prepare to be a dad when I'm older, which I hear can be difficult at times, and I'll need all the help I can get.
The second and one of the most important I feel is my discovery of my love for music in Grade 5 after my mom asked her friend who was my music teacher at the time to give me piano lessons. Haven't shied away from the keys since, every time I touch the ebony and ivory's I feel a power like none other. The power of capturing emotion and feeling is really what reeled me in; I've always loved the ability to turn on a song with a crazy beat, and feel like I have the biggest ego as I walk down the street. Music will always be my life and I look forward to putting it to ink soon, so it will be with me permanently.
The final experience is actually a job working for a place called Teen Empowerment, where I got paid a stipend to write a speech and read it in front of nearly 1,000 people. Teen Empowerment taught me that I should always stand behind my words, and also showed me their is power in my words. I was able to do an interaction piece with the crowd during my speech asking about where people grew up and if they've ever been judged based on where they're from. When I finished and got the the standing ovation from the vast amount of people crammed inside this high school auditorium I found a courage I didn't know i had. The Teen Empowerment experience also made me strive to one day talk in front of 10,000 people all at once, and inspire them with my words.
For the second part I was supposed to write about a job I didn't like but since I've loved every job I've worked at, I'm going to change it up a little.
Consuming the Consumer
We're the New Slaves, that's what Ye said.
They got us selling our souls, to buy the new threads
Kids dying over sneakers they can't afford
Only for them to be brought home and stored
Put in a casket like their favorite shoes never to see the light of day
Is this the price we're really willing to pay?
Corporations telling kids what's cool
Kids have become their manipulative tools
Hot girls and guys with no shirts on
That's what we base buying a product on
An arm an a leg that's the price tag for quality
Consumption has become a game, all about quantity
Corporations can't control
I'm uncontrollable
I write my own rules
I refuse to be just another tool
Great post!
ReplyDeleteYour writing is excellent! I like the three stories that you wrote about, but some of them seem familiar. Try to think of other profound experiences. Try to dig deep and come up with new stuff. It's in there!
Your poem is great. A great corporate bash that's full of energy and authenticity.
Great work.
Suggestions: try to write a little bit more. Expand upon your stories and provide more details. Capture the readers.
Also, try to come up with some more experiences that may have touched you. Think deep, dig 'em out.
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