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Nicole Rush English 11 Mrs. Neumann

__Philosophy of Life.__ I value so many aspects of my life. My family is everything to me. They make my life worth living. I cherish my friends because the good ones are always there for me. I cherish the so many things I have in my life and the things people have given me. All of the things people have done for me put great value into my life.I cherish dirt track racing. It may be a funny thing to cherish but my life revolves around it. My family comes together for racing. All of my worries and pain of the world go away when I am watching those cars going round and round. I have found my bestfriends there and my whole life has been built there. My philosophy of life is not like most but it suits me. My family is the most important thing in the world to me. I feel like the greatest role in life you can play is to be a part of a family. My favorite role in life is that of a daughter, sister, aunt, granddaughter, niece, and cousin. I want to be the kind of person my siblings, niece, nephews, and little cousins can look up to and depend on. My mom is my hero. She has helped me with everything i could possibly need in life. I never really knew my father as a kid which made me so much closer to the rest of my family. If I had to lose them I would die.

With the philosophy of life comes love for me. The love i feel for others is greater than anything i could ever imagine. I love my family with every breath i take. My boyfriend means a great deal to me and I love him very much. The love people feel for me puts me on top of the world. I love being told that I am loved. People may say that I am young and don't know what love is but they are wrong. I feel love every day of my life. I might not understand the whole concept of love but I am not a dumb person and I know what love is and I know what love feels like. With every life comes death. I feel like death has a great deal to do with the philosophy of life. I have seen death and it changes how a person feels about life. When someone I am close to passes away it makes me feel like I need to change my ways. I feel llike I need to live a fuller life with no regrets. I see how some of the older people who pass away have such accomplished lives. Thats how I want to live before death comes knocking at my door. I want the full experience of the "dash". Death comes with every life and it affects the lives of everyone around it. Making death one of the most important parts of my philosophy. My goals make me who I am. The goals I have are putting me on the right track to my dreams. My major goal for right now is to focus on school and to graduate from highschool. When I graduate I want to start college in Ohio and then in 2014 I want to move to South Carolina for a couple years. It will be hard but i need to experience something new. I will do a couple years of college down there and then transfer back to somewhere in Ohio. I am going to become a children's psychiatrist. I want to make a difference in childrens lives. I want to be able to help children who have been through rough patched similar to mine. I am not one to bite my tounge when it comes to something I feel strongly about. When something negative is said to me I am going to reply with how I feel about the comment. When my friends need advice I am the one to come to if they need an honest answer. If someone asks me if I like their hair and I do not, I am not going to lie and I will say no. I stand against abortion and when the topic comes up I am just completely disgusted with the topic. I like to stand up for the people who are afraid to do it themselves and the people who are not strong enough to stick up for themselves. I am completely against making accusations especially when the person is not there to defend themselves. When I feel strongly about something people might as well not even try to shange my mind because it will not happen.

An example of love in my philosophy of life is everyday of my life. When my mom leaves in the morning and she tells me she loves me. Everytime I see my friends and they are so happy to see me and have to tell me every detail of their lives. When I feel the amazing hugs of the littlest bodies with the biggest hearts. Whenever I see Jordan and my heart flutters and I get the goosebumps. Love is an everyday thing in my life there is not just one example to how it affects my philosophy of life. The unfortunate example for death is Richie's death. Richie was my uncle and he showed me a lot in life. When he passed away I thought I was going to lose it. It shocked me that someone I thought was "ten feet tall and bullett proof could just be gone. Richie's death made me question God for a minute but I realized that death is a part of life and God takes them when he needs them. The death of my uncle made me want to make a lot of changes in my life. I wanted to make a full and better life for myself. Sadness is not the onyl thing that comes out of death realization of changes that need to be made in lives could be discovered and the lives of people around me cahnged for the better because they realized with Richie passing away at such a young age that they needed to change their ways. When it comes to standing up for what I believe in a couple of things come to mind. My friends ask me all the time whether I like their hair or their outfit. I give them the honest answer if I do not I let them know. This girl was arguing with my bestfriend and she is not one to argue. When the girl said something extremely mean and my friend did not do anything I had to say something. I told the girl off and she argued for a bit but then she left us alone. I am not just going to sit there and let someone run their chops I will tell them how I feel about the situation and why or why it is not a good one. " You tell them that our lives can change with every breath they take. we both know that, and you tell them to let go of what is gone and tell them to hold on like hell to what they got, and that we all got mean in us but we all got good too, and the only thing worth living for is the good". This quote is from

Where the Heart is. The quote defines my philosophy of life perfectly. I believe that everyone has mean in

them as well as good and I only want to live for the good. My philosophy of life is from love to death and everything in between. I believe family should be the number one priority in every persons life. I think everyone should set the goals they want to meet that are going to let them accomplish their dreams. My philosophy of life is to live it to the fullest and to never let go of what you have.