Tis the Season. Be Responsible.

I started my 2011 spring semester. I would say that I'm a second semester sophomore but honestly I'm not sure. I know I should no but in all reality with changes schools and such I'm still not sure. Any way I have started my 2011 spring semester and it feels good.

I'm...

Excited to be in school.

Excited to be busy.

Excited to meet new people.

Excited to take my education for my own.

Excited to be responsible for it!

In my math class today my teacher wrote on the board

I'm happy when....

And I'm responsible for it.

I'm unhappy when....

And I'm responsible for it.

At first I looked at the kid next to me and we both were kind of confused. She told us to discuss it and we did but it didn't take long to see what was going to happen. After just a minute she pointed at a kid in the front and had him stand up and say it. Then she had the rest of us do the same switching off between happy and unhappy. It was funny, a little embarrassing but interesting too.

At the end of it she went on to tell us that we aren't always responsible for if we are happy or unhappy. Sometimes our circumstances put us in a place that we don't choose. She then goes on to say it's what we do with those emotions that counts.

We take responsibility.

We take ownership.

This is our lives.

Who do you want to be?