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    This is the week of the musical. We have been having long practices every day. It's starting to get to the point where it's stressful. I wish that I had prepared more beforehand than procrastinated until the show was this close. I think that preparation is important with everything because it can make you feel more relaxed and confident. And confidence is one of the most important thing you can have. Not to the point of arrogance though.

We have been doing team activities for the past couple days in class. I've really liked them because they've given us an opportunity to work together and think creatively. I think it's cool how we're allowed to think outside the box and use ingenuity instead of having to follow specific rules. I think that's important for a leader to be creative and use their own ideas to blaze trails. I also like to see the observations about the teams because it gives us a chance to see how we work from an outside perspective. And I just think that's interesting.

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We've been talking about core values in class. This has made me think of what I really think of myself and what I decide is right or wrong. It's kind of a hard thing to think about. My core values are that I make sure that I won't offend anyone with something that I do. People aren't going to respect you if you do. Also I think that it's important to be social with people, as they'll respect you more if you can have a conversation with them and be interested in what they are talking about. I also think about if I do something if I'll still respect myself later. Self-respect is important. You need to like who you are if you ever want to be happy.

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We've been watching Pursuit of Happyness in class for the last couple days. I think that the movie brings up a really good point about how happiness is not really something that you can achieve, but it's more of an idea. No matter what you achieve in life you'll always have another goal to reach for and you'll think that when you meet that one you will finally be happy. I think that instead of spending your entire life trying to be happy you should focus more on being satisfied with what you have. I think that the word I would pick instead of happiness would be contentment.

With all that's going on I'm glad that I'm at least busy. It think that it's important to keep busy and productive, even though it's hard sometimes. If you just sit around and do nothing you aren't improving yourself or relationships with others. It's crucial to go out and make an impact and work towards something, or else you're just wasting the limited time that you have in your life.

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Lately I've noticed that everything in my life has been structured and I've never really had a lot of decisions that I've made for myself. Like my life has always been 9 months of school then 3 months of summer. It just seems that I haven't really had a lot of freedom. And then when I'm out of high school I'll go to college. Then I'll have to get a job to pay off student loans. Then I'll have to keep working to support the family that I'll probably have until I retire. And it's the same for pretty much everyone. I just think that people should be able to decide how to live their own lives.