blog#7- free write

The thing that happened to me in high school that pretty much changed my life was,

When I was 6 years old I started playing volleyball. I started on a developmental team to learn the fundamental skills then I became dedicated and committed to play club volleyball and school ball this was a year round sport. To do something repeatedly you have to actually love that certain thing and I loved volleyball it was my hobby. Playing volleyball taught me how to understand the real meaning of a team player not just playing for yourself, a good attitude, and being coachable.

My Freshman and Sophomore year of high school I played year round ball. I was a member of my select team and my high school team. While high school season was over we went into off season where we trained to help us get stronger and quicker for the next prior. This is when club volleyball starts, with this being said I barley had any free time or a social life. I had practice Monday through Thursday on the weekdays then on Friday after school I would head out of town for whatever tournament I had that weekend. This was a major factor of helping me balance my time management with my homework and studies knowing that I didn’t have a lot of time to complete my work.

  Volleyball got to be very stressful knowing that I had to start applying for colleges and my grades didn’t stand where I would have liked them to. This is where I had to make a huge decision in my life. I quit club and school ball at the end of my sophomore year club season. Also, I had decided whether or not I want continue my future and play college volleyball or not. It was tough for me knowing that I played this sport for 10 years and I loved the game but, playing year round definitely puts so much pressure on you doing the same thing every day it just got old. The more competitive it got the more it became a job to me because I would want to be the best athlete I could so would do private lessons before every practice to help me reach my goal. But like rowe said “This is where many people face confusion in life and don’t know what the best path is for them and leads to fear.” With that quote my whole junior and senior year  that was the only thing on my mind wondering if I should have stayed with the sport or did I do the right thing. In conclusion, this was a major decision on my life quitting volleyball knowing I could have had an experience playing college ball and could have lead me to great things in life. By quitting volleyball, I had time to focus on my studies and to get my gpa and class rank up for college and it gave me a social life on the other hand when I played volleyball I felt like I had no freedom it was just volleyball day after day.

Blog 6 Rowes interview

In Rowe’s forty-minute interview he was arguing a fantastic point that focus on if we are lending money that we don’t have to kids we have no hope to get paid back in order to train them for job’s it’s difficult.

  The real problem reality is facing is that parents are pushing kids to go to a 4-year university and care about them getting a degree in something rather than going a trillion dollars in debt in college loans that they aren’t capable to pay in the future. Many people tell individuals that you need that you need college degree otherwise you won’t be happy and have an opportunities for big things in your future because, good jobs pay well which equals shortage of opportunities with no debt. “Work smart, not hard,” Rowe says.

 I agree on Rowe with his disagreement that he is against task hold for college students. School isn’t every one’s thing whether they are not finical stable for it or it is just a major disinterest of them. Today you can go out and get a great job without even a degree .I highly disagree with this because, there are people that are facing so many circumstances in life wanting to get the best education and degree so that are able to be successful in the future. People with great work ethics are the ones with positive attitudes and who actually put their heart at what they are doing.

 Education is majorly important as well as being healthy and fit. For an example: Rowe says “When people are trying to get fit they go get a gym me membership but they go to the most expensive one because they think that they will get the best out of it,” but in reality it doesn’t matter about the price that you are spending for the membership it is about your work ethic and what you put in to make the best results. Nothing is handed to you, you have to work for everything in life to be successful but, this is where many people face confusion in life and don’t know what the best path is for them and leads to fear. 

 I completely agree with Rowe on how when people tell you to follow your passion that it very bad advice because, not everything you or others think is right is the best for you. You want to end up doing something that you won’t want to quit because you get tired of it and something that you love and wake up wanting to go to work every day.

Blog #5 social media

Today social media has taken over everyone’s life. Studies have discovered that an average individual person looks at their device 221 times a day or more depending on the individual every 4.3 minutes . Teens have a higher percentage of being on their devices more because the generation they were born into technology was a major successful factor and is still increasing which lead them to be more addicted to their phones then the setting around them and can’t go without looking at their social media with more than five minutes.

 Web searching, Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook all  apps that are provided on our cellular devices have taken peoples’ attention spans away from the real world and their attention only to what is going on with the people they are talking to on their phones or what they see on the screen.

People don’t know even how to make a verbal communication with someone anymore. People are scared to say their feelings and to be straight up with someone in person so, this is generally when texting and private messaging comes into place. It is amazing to see how much social media does. For an example, most people you typically ask that are in a relationship how they met they will answer over social media when back in the olden days they didn’t have cell phones which made them make every effort to try to make a connection with one another possible in person not by meeting over the internet and it being some random person that you don’t even know or anything about them.

 Also, social media can be a disadvantage to a lot of people . This is sometimes where harassment and rumors began and lead to harm. Being harassed on social media and judged has been ranked for one of the biggest number for suicide thoughts. For an example, when someone post a picture of them or a group of people and you specifically heard something about that certain individual or group this is where people go off and talk with spreads to rumors and can lead to very serious situations. 

 Rumors are also a very big part of social media when your friends post something just for that individual to get attention and them feel good about themselves while on the other hand they have switched up the whole story and everyone sees it because it’s on social media so people generally believe what they see or hear and rumors start from there. In the article Intimacy for the Avoidant it talks about how social media has made individuals feel lonely and depressed but on the other hand people use social media to interact with others to make them feel good about themselves. The more you are attached to your phone the more depressed you will be because your mind is so engaged in what  you are looking at on your phone while you aren’t going out and enjoying the outside life.