Derek’s Blog

The life pressures that we all face are crazy different from one person to another. My life pressures are firefighting, being a student, being a brother, trying to impress my father, and trying to be all I can be at sports. Everyone’s life is their own and therefore, their life pressures are going to be different. My brothers life pressures are completely different from mine. He would rather be concerned about what people think of him rather than how broke he is. My brother, Sean, would rather worry about missing his T.V. show, than missing a social event. 

I make my decisions because of my life pressures. Some people laugh at me when I am doing some of the things that I do, instead of going to parties I go to work, rather than watch T.V. I work out, I chose an apple instead of chips, I do all of this because of the life pressures I have. If I let myself get out of shape than I can’t firefight properly and may put my fellow brothers in danger, staying in shape helps me stay focused and become a better student. If I let myself go and waste away. That doesn’t show my brother that it is alright to not care and I can’t let that happen. If I can’t work hard and pull wenches the way I should be able to, that I can’t show my father how good of a worker I am, and everyone knows that if you don’t make healthy decisions than you can kiss sports good bye. Sean would rather enjoy that bag of greasy pop-corn and watch a movie than start getting ready for the hockey season that is one week away. Now well he is eaten’ away, I am thinking “Thou churlish unchin-snouted lout” I got one week to get in better shape than I was last year. Sean would just be worried about who he would see, and how he would look and not playing the game.

The Hardy Boy’s Books which I was reading at the beginning of the year, shows how these life pressures, decisions, and values, change what can happen quickly in a day, a week a month, and over a lifetime. The book shows that the pressures they have, their father being the best detective the U.S. has ever seen, the decisions they make, being the way they decide to investigate something or someone, and their values, for them they value friends very closely. This also makes me think of the movie Jarhead this movie shows what people are like when they are trained to do one thing and one thing only, kill. It also shows although we all are different we all fit together to make one big picture, although you might have to squash some pieces together to make them fit. 

Now when I am out working wherever it may be, I miss out on things that most kids my age would never think not doing. I don’t go to movies, I don’t party, I don’t call up friends and say “Hey you want to go do something?” My life is my work. I live with these consequences every day.

This is My English 10 Final Exam.

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