Tristan Romani
English 12
Friday write week 1
The difficult decision
Many have had the displeasure of having to make difficult decisions and I am no different. When I was in grade eight, I had the option after graduating Pitt river middle school to either attend riverside secondary or terry fox secondary. My father gave me the decision after I had the worry that it may come across weird or awkward being that my dad is a teacher at riverside. At first I was leaning more towards going to terry fox secondary to try to avoid what I thought at the time having my dad as a teacher at my school as a bad thing, but instead I looked at the benefits of each option such as terry fox secondary not having my dad there and my worries that he would be constantly be breathing down my back watching everything I do. I also looked into the benefits of riverside like having my dad as a teacher creating multiple benefits such as lunches, rides home with no wait and someone I know personally that I can talk to if I need be. As well as the fact that riverside is closer to my home than terry fox. So, in the end I decided to attend riverside as my institution where I would do my high schooling. Although being a tough decision with much anxiety at first, I can see now that I most certainly made the right decision and although I may never know what my life could have been like if I had gone to terry fox, I don’t regret my choice.
Friday write 2
A comic or ridiculous misunderstanding with another person
When I was about 9 years old and in grade 5 my mom and brother had a black cat named Meowzer who had a bad problem of shedding a lot, and myself being allergic to cats when I didn’t know any better pet him and cuddled with him a lot which often caused me to rub my eyes after petting him which made my eyes very red and puffy which happened a lot. One day when I was going to school my teacher noticed my abnormally puffy and red eyes and asked me what was the matter and I told her I didn’t know why they were puffy and scratchy, so apparently she thought I had pink eye due to the school having a unusually high amount of students having pink eye at the time creating her to believe that I had caught it. So, she sent me down to the principles office so he could take a look and decide what to do with me. The school ended up suspending me for two days due to what looked like pink eye and what the very ironic thing was is that my red and puffy eyes cleared up a couple hours after my mom picked me up, which actually made my mom very frustrated that now she cant send me to school for two days just for a simple misunderstanding.
Friday write 3
The proudest moment of my life
The proudest moment of my life has to be when I won the Emily ingles award at pitt river for persevering and completing all my schoolwork with straight B’s after missing three and a half months of school due to my back surgery. After I moved from Winnipeg to Vancouver in 2013, I had an odd felling on my spine which I would latter find out to be a benign tumor on my spine which caused me to almost become paralyzed and miss three months of school for recovery after my surgery. I had a lot of school work to catch up on and my teachers ended up telling me that I would have to attend summer school at the end of the year in order to catch up on work I missed, but due to my 13 year old brain thinking summer school was the kind of place only bad kids went too I made it a goal of mine to get all the work I hadn’t finished from the 3 months at the same time doing the work I still had to do from my ongoing schooling and in the end I finished all my work and passed grade 7 with straight B’s impressing my peers enough to grant me the Emily ingles award for astonishing persistence and achievement.
Friday write 4
The day I realized the world is bigger than I thought
All my youthful life I had never really known how the world truly worked until about grade 10 when I had planning 10 and realized the true extent of what the world truly is like with all the jobs, universities, people and different ways of thinking. Most of the way I perceived up until this point I saw life as a straight line that is pre drawn out to you where you are constantly told what to do and someone makes the overall decisions of your life for you and you have to make due with what those choices are. When this realization hit me I was truly shocked not because of the typical reason of having the great feeling of having my life in my own hands but actually fear, because I actually felt better and had already come to terms with the way I thought the world worked with someone always telling me what to do and at the time I actually liked that idea better and until about a year ago I was scared at the idea of having to do almost everything myself. Fortunately, I have found what I want to do with my future and career so since then I haven’t had much anxiety over it.
Friday write 5
Sometimes people are unable to control the directions of their own life
For most of my life so far I have had little choice in the direction of my life due to only being a minor and I was told the older I get the more freedom I would have to make my own decisions of where I want my life to go, but what I have realized is that is not always true many times when I think I have control over the direction in my life I find myself ending up. Such as the time when my dad met a woman in 2015 who definitely had a couple screws loose moved in with her two daughters and ended up turning my life upside down and reverted my previous thoughts of what I perceived adults were supposed to be like and showed me the true world. When she first moved in, I showed a lot of resistance to her moving in but most of it was ignored and it truly felt like I had no control over this section of my life which really opened my eyes to the way life can truly be.
Friday write 6
The important things in life endure over time
When I was young the important things in my life was often, what my next meal would be; when’s recess, and what type of games we’d get to play. As important as those things were then they don’t even cross my mind now; while maybe what I’ll eat for dinner. As I leave high school I worry about finding a job Ilike; securing good friendships and paying bills, like my cell phone. I can’t guarantee anything, but I suppose as my life continues to develop I’ll find other things become more important… like post-secondary school, finding a mate, finding my own place to live and just figuring out what I want the rest of the my life to look like. My dad always says ‘being young usually means, you don’t know what that you don’t know’. I know it’s one of my dads ‘life lessons’ he’s always preaching about, so I know it must be important in some way, but maybe it’s one of those things you don’t figure out until you get older… you know, as you get more life experience. We like to think that our life will work out a certain way, but from what I’ve seen it doesn’t always work out for other people, and suspect that it won’t necessarily work out the way I believe it will. Life is sure to throw me some curves, but along the way it will have it’s ups and downs, the point of it all is to appreciate what you do have and to learn along the way. My dad always says… failure is still the greatest teacher. I’m not sure that’s right, but he’s definitely endured more in his life than me, so I’m going to trust his word and ride that one out.