Your mind is like a parachute, It doesn't work if it's not open.

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses. You decide.

The worst battles we have to fight are between what we know and what we feel.

Sometimes the most important lessons, are the ones we end up learning the hard way.


Wednesday, January 18, 2012

GENERATIONS

Author’s Note: I wrote this piece to tell people that every chance you get to spend with your family you should appreciate and this is because not everyone has a family like mine that is together all the time every day. Some families are small and live in different states and sometimes even countries. So when you get to talk to them you need to treat it like it’s the best thing ever.

Everyone knows of things that happened before they were born and are still going on now. Like Christmas dinner or Thanksgiving dinner. Their family has been doing it since before they were born and now are still doing it. Well my family has just that, yes we celebrate Christmas and Thanksgiving. But the biggest thing I think we do is Hunting season which always falls right over Thanksgiving. My family has been doing this since at least 1975. There were 25 people who hunted, and then there was my grandma and aunt and a bunch of other people. When I was born a couple of people stopped hunting because they became too old. Others just stopped hunting with us because they started to move a little slower and didn’t want to hunt with us if they couldn’t do as much as they used to. The saddest part though was a couple of people died and then obviously could not hunt any more. Now we’re down to 8 people. It’s still a lot of fun because all the people who used to hunt with us still come around every year for hunting season. My favorite part of hunting season is that when someone does get a deer and not like we’re trophy hunters we just like the meat in are freezer. But when someone gets a really nice deer you’ve got to take pictures and we hand out trophies. We have three of them BIG BUCK, SMALLEST DEER, and HEAVIEST DEER. It’s the favorite part when someone gets to put the trophy up on their mantle all year long and hope that it stays there till the next year.  I look forward to hunting season every year I get out of school for two days and I get to relax up north with my family and friends. So appreciate every chance you get with your family at your annual events. My families is really strange I know but I love it for what it is and I love them for what they are and nothing can ever change that.