My Life Value

Albert Einstein once said, “Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value”. This quote to me means that you must look beneath the surface and really figure out what truly brings you value or a satisfaction. I relate things that give me some sort of satisfaction as giving my life value. When asked what gave my life value I honestly had no idea what really gave my life value. I had to ask others around me because I was stuck. Of course no one knew what gave my life value, because it is my life and they don't know what happens to me as soon as I step off campus or even when I leave the room. I went back to the articles written by Chris Jones, Amanda Ripley, and even the speech from Steve Jobs. I now know what gives my life
By relationship I mean a friendship or something more than a friendship with a person, if you know what I mean, ;) I have always had a hard time finding friends and all. I have had the same friend group since about fifth grade. Don't get me wrong I really love my friends and would do anything for them, i just wish I would have been more social and really made more than two friends. In 2016 I got a boyfriend, my first one ever. I was so excited that I was with him all the time, and I was happy. As time passed I was distancing myself from my friend group, I'm not going to lie I know that was something that I should not have done,but I didn't realize it at the time because I saw them in my classes. We had just been talking like I hadn't just seen her for the first time in a week or something. Just recently we have broken up and choose that it might be better if we were friend, after a relationship of a year and three months. I was heartbroken. I really didn't know what to do, and still pretty much don't. As a crazy dramatic teenager I am, I thought that my life as I knew it was ending and that I would be alone forever. I felt like I was turning into Ophelia who had lost her mind and sang to herself as she mourned her father. I know that losing a father is way more important than losing a boyfriend that I will probably see everyday, but that didn't run through my mind at the time. As a teen nothing really
One of my passions is my need for volunteering. I love to volunteer. I volunteer at the Contra Costa and Solano Food Bank Truck every two weeks. I love spending time and there talking to everyone and getting them the food the need. These people are just so grateful that it makes me happy. This also teaches me to really be grateful for what I have. I also volunteer at my church very often. At my church I am an atar server, meaning that I help the priest with 8:30 masses. I also am a teen leader at the Confirmation Classes. What I do their is mentor other kids as the take the final steps as becoming a full adult member of the church. “Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparling, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.” (2 Corinthians 6-7) This is something that my mom has always taught me and my little sister to do. I fully believe that my mom had survived her cancer because she was so forgiving and gave so much up to her diagnosis. Another passion of mine is dance. I have been dancing or as long as I can remember. Dancing has always been part of my life. I feel like I can really just clear my mind when I dance and block out all of the negativity in my life. Although I have not been dancing nearly as much as I used to, I still feel like it is