Hi fellow bloggers, my name is Pamela Switzer and I currently reside in San Ramon. This year, my senior year, is hopefully going to be one of the best years of my life. I'm turning 18 in less than two months which has been a great eye opener for me. I have come to many conclusions about what I want to do this year, in terms of academics, work, personal, and family and friends. Considering it is my senior year, I know that I have to make every day count, because as we pass each and every day, we are one step closer to college and one step away from high school. My plans for senior year include getting fit and eat healthier, get a better spiritual understanding, better my relationship with friends and family.
This year I really hope to better myself from the inside and out. I want to work on my fitness to improve my health. After my mom graduated nursing school, she started working out again. I saw a huge difference in her body but more than that, an improvement in her happiness. I hope that when I start working out and eating healthier, I'll be able to sleep easier, be happier, and get toned! I also want to get healthy for the Maritime Academy because there is a lot of physical training involved with the major I'm applying for.
Spiritually, I want to study religions more this year. My mother is Christian and my father is Jewish, which is really interesting because both sides of my family are very religious (with the exception of my mother and father). It makes things very interesting when I visit each side because I get to go to a synagogue and a church. However, I'm not sure if I truly follow or believe in a religion, which is causing me to really introspect my beliefs. Without a concise idea of my spirituality, I feel almost lost in my identity. I want to be able to really find what I believe in to get a better understanding of who I am.
Lastly, my family and friends have always been a very important part of my life. With college right around the corner, I feel even more pressure to solidify all my relationships. Lately my father and I have had some rough times and we haven't spoken in a very long time. I would like to fix our relationship before I go to college. Its hard to fix a relationship with someone who has unstable emotions but I'm hoping that I'll gain a better understanding from his perspective in order to fix our relationship.
I hope that this year will go as great as I believe it'll be. Good luck to everyone who is working on his or her own problems or goals!
This year I really hope to better myself from the inside and out. I want to work on my fitness to improve my health. After my mom graduated nursing school, she started working out again. I saw a huge difference in her body but more than that, an improvement in her happiness. I hope that when I start working out and eating healthier, I'll be able to sleep easier, be happier, and get toned! I also want to get healthy for the Maritime Academy because there is a lot of physical training involved with the major I'm applying for.
Spiritually, I want to study religions more this year. My mother is Christian and my father is Jewish, which is really interesting because both sides of my family are very religious (with the exception of my mother and father). It makes things very interesting when I visit each side because I get to go to a synagogue and a church. However, I'm not sure if I truly follow or believe in a religion, which is causing me to really introspect my beliefs. Without a concise idea of my spirituality, I feel almost lost in my identity. I want to be able to really find what I believe in to get a better understanding of who I am.
Lastly, my family and friends have always been a very important part of my life. With college right around the corner, I feel even more pressure to solidify all my relationships. Lately my father and I have had some rough times and we haven't spoken in a very long time. I would like to fix our relationship before I go to college. Its hard to fix a relationship with someone who has unstable emotions but I'm hoping that I'll gain a better understanding from his perspective in order to fix our relationship.
I hope that this year will go as great as I believe it'll be. Good luck to everyone who is working on his or her own problems or goals!
I hope in college you have the opportunity to take a comparative religion class, that may help as you learn more about yours and other religions. You should speak with Cassidy about nutrition, this is her project and she is focused in her life on eating well and exercise.
ReplyDeleteYour blog is really inspirational, Pam! It is really inspiring to hear that you want to explore religion more and that you want to start to be healthier. I know that you will have a very successful senior year and I can't wait to be right next to you hearing about everything you accomplish this year and in the future! :)
ReplyDeleteI'm very inspired by this blog, you've shown me more of you that I never knew about through this blog. Being one that is trying to get more fit, I can understand that drive you have to getting better. I trust in the fact that you will come in touch with your spiritual personality, being someone who struggled to understand the values of religion myself. Follow your heart and believe in your own faith, because nobody can take that faith away from you. Everything else will fall into place after that :)
ReplyDeleteI think you have a plan and you are ready you put it into action! You want to do all these things before you go away like get fit, learn more about religons, and fix problems with your dad. I think those are amazing things for you to do, for yourself and to have a better understanding of everything around you. I wish you the best! :)
ReplyDeletePam I sure hope Senior year is not the best year of your life. You have many blessed years in your future. I already know that the best years of your life are yet to come. But Senior year is the first step of having the rest of your life in place. As a very spiritual person myself, I can't imagine the difficulty you are having with finding what you truly believe, but I'm very glad you have been considering this and right now, as a near adult is a spectacular time to be discovering what you will potentially believe for the rest of your life. Especially because you will become independent so soon. It hurts me to realize you are having some relationship roadblocks with your father and I am 100% confident you will have it all healed by the end of your last year of high school. You are taking the right steps in first of all, realizing and admitting there are some troubles, and then taking action to make it all better. I don't think you should feel pressure as you stated though. I believe solidifying relationships is not something to stress over. All it takes is confidence (which I know you have) and trust. You're headed in the right direction and I'm not going to sit here and say "good luck with everything" because you don't need luck. I already know you will have all of your goals completed by the end of this great year and I wish you have fun while achieving them!!!
ReplyDeleteSo inspirational! I love that you're trying to help yourself and center yourself with a healthy lifestyle! I hope that we could help each other throughout the year because our projects are so similar. Best of luck to you this year!
ReplyDeleteLots of support from a caring group of peers! Each have told you that your blog has been an inspiration! Wow! I'm with Andrew, I hope high school is not the best years of your life.....but is a good time to create a road map for the next chapter of your life. We all look forward to reading what else you have to write in this blog during this year.
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