I interviewed someone in the hallway. Of course it was awkward at first for the both of us, though luckily it was someone I already know, somewhat. Despite knowing this person previously, all comments will be similar to the other post. I first asked about her biggest conflict, and I could relate. It happened when I was younger. She told me that in 6th grade she was bullied and in 8th grade, for about half of the year, she was bullied as well. She would wake up sad, but it helped to speak to her cousin. She would get emotional about the whole thing, but it was a good process to talk it out to her cousin, i'm sure. Despite these setbacks in her life, she's quite the optimist. She basically told me; "I'm thankful for having a great life and being prepared for college. I have a lot of people to look up to and i'm thankful to wake up in the morning." She sees the brighter side of things and appreciates what she has. Even though she was bullied, she has things she is thankful for and she has a great goal for the future. She was in a military program for a year and a half, then switched to band. She plans to go into the air force because she has a lot of family in the military and thinks it would be really cool if she could do band in the air force. She overcame her past struggles and pushes forward to the future, which is a great lesson to everyone, really. A great lesson for the Humans of Fern Creek.
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When talking to her, there was one common thing in a lot of her responses. She wants to be more confident. Her mother is who she is most thankful for because she works hard, tries her best to take care of her family, and she's confident. She surrounds herself with people she wants to be like, such as nice, silly, confident people. She has seen struggles in her life like many of us. Her biggest regret is not persevering through 8th grade when she experienced really bad anxiety and depression. The truth is that many teenagers seem to go through this quite often. They lack confidence, and they wind up with depression. Luckily, she seems to have overcome the worst of it, though she still struggles like many others. The reason I know she is still suffering? I asked her about her life goal. Once I asked, she replied; "I want to be confident, strong, independent, be with positive people, have a good job, and I don't want so much depression or anxiety. I want to be a good person people like to be around." These are things many other humans of Fern Creek can relate to, and hopefully we can all learn to cope with these things, like Sydney seems to have, in our lives because everyone has gone through some sort of struggle throughout their lifetime.
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