Personal Narrative : My Soul, Josh Fleisher

Some of the conversation consisted of us being very annoyed at the fact people could not pronounce Ryan Beatty’s name correctly.

On April 4th, 2001, a young man named Ryan Judge was born in a hospital in Munster, Indiana. I haven’t always lived in Lowell, in fact for the first year of my life, I lived in Cedar Lake. When I turned about one year old, my family moved to lowell. I can’t remember anything really important in the years before school, being that I was so young. When I started school, it was quite weird actually. Going to a place to learn, for seven hours a day. I started to notice how small I was when I saw the other kids. For some reason, they were all taller than me. Most people would think that I was bullied for this reason, but I never was. It has never really become an issue in my life, because of one thing. Even when I was younger, I loved to make people laugh. It

I found relaxing bamboo flute music on YouTube when I was doing bad in school. This soothing flute music helped me to control all my built up energy. I feel like this music helped me to concentrate and it also helped me focus. It was during the middle of freshman year I realized that I had a lot of trouble concentrating so I looked up relaxing music. Once I heard the bamboo flute I felt it calm me down. Like when I listen to this music I can concentrate better. When ever I am upset or angry I put this song on and my feelings just go away, it's like the music puts me into a dreamland. Growing up I always would have a hard to paying attention and concentrating but when I heard the bamboo flute I felt like it changed me.

Spencer Reid was always picked on as a child, and even throughout adulthood. Spencer has always been smarter than the average person around him, with his IQ of 187, and an eidetic memory. Once, when he was only about thirteen years old, one of his old classmates, he had already graduated the year before, asked him to go out with her after he had written her a series of poems that showed his love for her. They planned a place and time to meet, and on the day of those plans the girl stood Spencer up. He thought it was okay though, he never really liked her in the first place, that is what he told himself anyways on the off-chance that his mother or anyone else would ask about how his night went. Spencer doubted anyone would though.

I don’t think that I can ever forget the day that I beat my time on the mile. Even though I wasn't prepared I still managed to beat my time which usually would never happen. Most people would think that my score was bad, but to me it was one of the best scores I had gotten in all of the years that I have been in this school. My average time is usually around 12 minutes, but this year I managed to shave almost a minute off what I usually get. This year I can actually say that I wrote down a goal and I actually beat it.

AC/DC’s “Back in Black” blared over the weight room’s speakers as I first sized up a dull iron bar. Staring straight ahead at the blank white wall, time slowed down. I racked my brain trying to recall what I had seen the lifters around me do. Phil, our weight room coach, commanded me, “Get over the bar.” I inched closer to the weight, toes beneath the bar, and attempted to lift it first off the ground, and then up on top of my shoulders.

I consider myself to be someone who reads to understand. When I read, I take what I already know and try to apply it to the text. Although I may not be the smartest in the world, whatever experience I have helps me to understand what I am reading. For every few sentences I read, I always have a memory in the back of my mind. Sometimes it is just something from my childhood that relates to the words, and other times, it is more like remembering what I have learned in a class. When reading Beloved for my Summer Reading novel, I kept going back to what we learned in history about slavery.

I am so humbled to have been a part of such a huge production and event this past weekend in West Palm Beach, FL. I Co Produced the first ever A Concert for Humanity benefit concert, benefiting the amazing charity Wells of Life. Did you know? every 21 seconds a child dies from drinking contaminated water. The Incredible team and I put together a concert to bring awareness to this and I have to say, we kicked ass. We got the Grammy Nominated NEEDTOBREATHE to fly out and put on the concert of a lifetime. 5 (short) weeks of hard work, planning, studying and preparing we were able to bring it all together. There were many highlights of my weekend, talking with the creators of Wells Of Life, meeting to many selfless people, hanging with the band,

The trailer door fell in front of me and made a thud as it hit the grass, suddenly the dark trailer was lit and my horse was illuminated, as he began calling out. I undid the “butt bar” and walked into the trailer. When I got to my horse, I took the coarse leadrope into my hands and untied it from the old rusted eyehook wedged into the board in the corner. Each step backwards off the trailer brought us one step closer, quit possibly into the beginning of the rest of our show lives together. I looked at Bailey, he threw his head up like a sports team throws up their fists at victory, and I gave him a solid nod.

It was a dry and hot desert night in memphis Dave had been planning this heist for months now, and tonight was the perfect night to go through with the plan. He wanted the Serpents Spear for a man which he only knew as Amar had given him an offer he couldn’t resist, and he knew he could do it I mean he had done it before it was just this time it was going to be a lot more difficult and if he got caught he would be in serious trouble. Was the money Dave needed for his family to have the life they deserved worth it? After 3 sleepless nights Dave decided he would go through the risk was worth it his children deserved more, he deserved more, and he wasn’t just going to continue sitting around at his boring accountant job waiting for what he needed to give his family what they deserve. He was going to go and get it.

Evan is also very kind to all people. Whenever I’m with him I notice that he never judges people, even if there is a scary looking person around, Evan will talk to the man like he is just a normal person like everyone else, which is something I admire about Evan. My brother also does a lot of community service around Ohio, he got a scholarship for it from his college Otterbine. Evan went to Chicago for about 3 months for a mission trip. He walked around and shared the gospel with random people he saw. My brother being so kind is why I look up to him the most.

The story about my trip by Zach Joseph last year I went on a trip to North Carolina. When I got on the plane to go their I felt butterflies in my stomach it was because it was taking off I road in a airplane before but I just hate when it takes off. The reason I was going North Carolina was to see my mom. When I got their we got of the airplane and I felt happiness that I was there to see my mom. When we went to the front gate my mom was there waiting for me I ran up there and gave her a hug. When we got to the car we went out to eat at applebee's I had steak and corn and potatoes. Then after we ate we went home then we went to the beach. While we were at the beach we seen a amusement park. My mom ask if we wanted to go there we said yes then

UGH! I said in frustration.  “Dayla, what about piano and singing?” articulated my mother. During this time, I was going through the know-it-all phase and was only six-years-old. I LOVED to sing! My cousins  and I used to create our own music or stay with headphones. My mom and grandmother wanted me to be the next “Alicia Keys” and still do, now I have no problem with that at all. At the moment, I honestly did not care for the piano.

Every spring I look forward to the freshly cut grass, the smoothly raked field, and most importantly squatting ready for the endless pitches. However, I always take a moment to look back and wonder, what would I be doing now if I hadn’t tried out?