My Come to Jesus Moment About My Lack of Focus..

I love being a content creator for the Odyssey, just as much as I love being poetry club president, and Unspoken Words President, and an actor in the Crucible, and an integral part of Blue Bistro, and supposed assistant head youth board usher.

I love everything that I do so much equally. But, the thing is… I can not fully commit to each and every one of these things, which is why I consistently forget every week that I have an Odyssey article due. Or I forget that I’ve some times planned a poetry club meeting and have nothing planned. Or which is why at most Crucible rehearsals, I’m on the side on my laptops writing college essays or studying my lines for my upcoming event, Urban Expressionism. I find time in the cracks and crevices of everything else that I’m doing to do what needs to be done in my career. My honest field of study and what all of my time goes to is what I’m passionate about. I’m constantly listening to music and thinking of new songs, poems, and choreography for it. I’m always observing people as an actors to copy them once I hit the stage. I am passionate about my art, which is why I’ve come to Jesus about the fact that, currently, school is not on my top priority list.

Yes, this is true, I’ve come out and I’ve said it.

That statement is dedicated to all of my fellow classmates who work so hard to balance every aspect of their lives and don’t necessarily plan to go the more academic route in life. That statement is dedicated to myself, more than anything, in that I made all A’s my first nine weeks despite my focus being elsewhere. This was no where close to easy, but my focus is not on graphs in my AP Statistics course or the over emphasis on the fact that British Literature is the only class I really need to graduate… my focus is on the preparation of what’s going to help me after I graduate.