Being only 16 I haven’t had all the experiences that can factor to the development of my identity, I was raised to believe in what I think is right and to fight for what I want. I can’t say I have truly found my identity yet, but watching what is happening around starting with our president and his lack of belief in global warming, sea level rises, or anything that is of importance is what fuels me into finding my identity to finding what I want to become so that our earth doesn’t have the problems it does now. Because of my amazing parents telling me that I need to figure out what I want instead of them forcing me into doing what they want me to do, I’m able to take time and finding in something I really want to fight for. So for a while I wanted to be an environmentalist and study ways to help preserve our earth but when I got to thinking about what I really wanted it wasn’t that. I'm constantly thinking about my family, and how thankful I am someone was there to tell them what they needed. Growing up with a family battling addiction it’s hard when someone falls off the wagon you watch them struggle, give up, hit rock bottom, and shake out of it. My father was a on and off drug abuser until he was in a hospital bed with heart failure, that was his rock bottom, at that moment he changed his life. My dad has been sober for 4 years and it’s hard to believe someone with heart failure can be almost dead to being told he’ll live a very long life, this is because he changed to a plant based diet, he eats organic, and juices. My dad is what they call an Encinitas vegan, but I call him the reason why I know what I want to do with my life. I want to go to college and study nutritional biochemistry. I want to learn how food truly affects your body, I want to understand and I want everyone I talk to understand that changing your diet to a plant base option isn’t impossible it’s not bad for you, and you most definitely can survive without eating a steak. People need to get educated on how eating meat is more problemsome on your health then not eating meat. People are given so many medications for health problems and then more medications to help with the side effects caused by the medication. I’ve read and watched a lot of different studies on how changing your diet to plant base can help you get off those medications for health and heart problems, you don’t need medication when you find a way to get off them by eating a healthier and actually less costly diet. What i’m trying to say I don’t have anything yet that I can say is my identity but soon I will. This is what i’m passionate about, I know it's not a religion or my ethnic background that gives me my identity because to me that isn’t what makes who you are it just places you in place that says this is what you are it makes it so you don’t think you can be anything else. I didn't let my jewish religion decided what I was going to be.
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I express my creative side by using social media, the ability to be able to snap a perfect picture and hit post in the matter of seconds. Using social media such as snapchat gives me access to being creative with photography. Going on road trips with friends or just swimming in the backyard having the ability to use my phone and share to my followers what i'm doing right in that moment is what makes me want to be more creative. To take pictures that make people want to stop, pause, and look at. I’m grateful that I can be creative in my own way, even if it isn’t professional photography I still love the motivation to get an amazing picture that will get the most views or the most likes. My most like photo would be a picture of my friends and I parasailing, since i’m lucky enough to be able to extraordinary things like parasailing and going on quads throughout Mexico I get in touch with my creative side and try to catch the right moment of happiness with the right angle, it's not as easy as it seems and that what makes me want to keep trying. With social media today you have people watching you and I want people to look at my photos and just want more. Next trip is to New York during Fourth of July and I can’t wait to start taking pictures of anything and everything, i’m happy with the way I choose to be creative because it’s the only way how.
Growing up I loved sports, watching football on a sunday with family would always be my favorite time of the week. I always just watched football or played tag football with family on thanksgiving. Finally at my second high school I heard an announcement saying there will be a meeting for girls interested in flag football. I went to the meetings, the conditioning and then we had the tryouts, a lot of my friends from varsity soccer were trying out. After a few practices teams were posted and I made varsity with my best friend, we continued to improve with more games and practice. But during an aggressive game I went to pull a girl's flag and my finger got caught in her shirt my finger first snapped then dislocated at a 90 degree angle, later on Sammy got elbowed and had to get 7 stitches in her eye, after that we watch all our teams progress plummet. After that a lot changed Sammy and I waited the season out and I never got to play on that team again since I moved across the country where there are no girls football teams. I learned a lot from that team and made new friends that i'll never forget. I visited for my winter break so I decided to go to a game and a few practices to help out and the quarterback, meghan manning, also one of my friends was there greeting me by saying this is the leadgen i'm always talking about.
As a teenager I can say I hate change but lucky for me all I get to do is move and change, throughout my high school career I have attended three high schools, one for each year and in a new state, with that I have had issues and continue to face them the closer I come to graduating. The hardest barrier that i’m currently having to overcome is credit recovery each high school I’ve been to requires different credits for different courses. This isn’t easy considering I didn’t try my freshman year and if I want to go to college, which I do, I have a lot of work to do. A few days ago I signed up for taylion, a summer school, and the plans I had with my friends were canceled. I study everyday preparing for finals so I can pass them move on and continue to take extra classes. Next year i’ll be a senior and with that I can have five classes! But for me I get seven. I’m willing to go over these barriers as many times as I need to because I know that eventually I’ll be rewarded and all this hard work will be paid off and next time i'm answering this prompt I can speak of an amazing opportunity, who knows having to move around and around could be an opportunity in disguise that just hasn’t revealed itself yet. In the future this work will give me an opportunity worth writing about.
Growing up in a family full of drug addiction and alcoholism wasn’t the easiest thing, with my dad going on “business trips” and my brother being his partner in crime, my mom was the person I looked up to. In this time of my life I was 8 years old and my parents were going through a intense divorce and fighting for custody. My mom moved out and shared custody over me with my dad, I saw my dad every other weekend if he bothered to show up, our trips would include us going back to my childhood home where he would hang out in the garage with my brother smoking weed while my neighbor Jayden and I would roam the streets unattended for. My mom finally won full custody when the judge saw just how bad the situation was with my father considering his prison record and how the house I grew up in was now in foreclosure. We packed our things up and moved to Washington with my mom's new partner, her daughter, and me. Four years went passed and we’d get a call every now and then, once on Christmas, saying that one of the Fernane’s were in jail again, either for possession of illegal drugs or robbery, but and the end of the fifth year we haven't had any terrible calls so we thought of the worse until one day we got a call saying my father is in hospice for heart failure because of all the drugs he consumed finally caught up with him, he changed his life after this. He goes to AA meetings every day and has been sober for 3 years, my brother went to a recovery center in LA called new life and he too has been sober for almost three years, after graduating from the recovering center he now works with them and was promoted to communications manager and visit all the time, i see my dad on a weekly basis. Of course there are still Fernane’s off the wagon but we hope for the best for them everyday.
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AuthorMy name is Hannah Fernane and this is a web page about me and my life story. 6 word essay I
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