I was cleaning out my “room” and looking at my stuff today when I encountered this old gem, written in the summer of my Sophomore Year in high school, for my health class. Needless to say, the way I viewed myself and the way I viewed the world around me has not changed or evolved all that much since then. Let’s have a look-see.
The Legend of Me, by John Le Tran, with pictures of Jack Bauer and JoJo so clearly preeminent.
I am fairly certain that my conception of “how to save the world” and how to create peace in the world largely translated into my now current political views that the U.S. should switch to a non-interventionist foreign policy.
I’m still trying to figure out how to be a better person with my current “Project Morality” goals. 30 is a decent deadline, but I’d prefer now to make an impact on the world on a more continuous basis all throughout my life.
I still like all those things about myself.
I feel like I’ve worked on all these negative traits over the year. I’m a much less clingy person (although still have my core attachments), am much more optimistic about my future place in the world, and refuse to allow myself to get walked all over.
I don’t think I’ll cure cancer anytime soon, but my motivations to change the world for my parents and for everybody else remains largely the same.
The more we think we changed, the more we actually stayed the same. I’m constantly evolving into my destiny.
