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Junior Year Beliefs

In my junior year of high school I was introduced by my high school AP English Language teacher to This I Believe.

This I Believe is an international project engaging people in writing and sharing essays describing the core values that guide their daily lives. Over 70,000 of these essays, written by people from all walks of life, are archived here on our website, heard on public radio, chronicled through our books and television programming, and featured in weekly podcasts. The project is based on the popular 1950s radio series of the same name hosted by Edward R. Murrow.

I took his challenge and though about my beliefs and wrote about one. I still live by it. I don't think I've changed. It's raw and unadulterated. Enjoy.

When I was in fourth grade I moved to London, I started at a new school and knew no one, I made new friends and started a new chapter of my life. In sixth grade, I started at Hoover Middle School; I stepped into the large auditorium knowing almost none of the 400 runny nose kids, who I would spend the next three years with. I grew to know and love every single one of them, each in their own way, their quirks and their weaknesses. Then again in 9th grade I started at a new school, new kids. This time I was more prepared, or so I thought, but what I realized was that no matter how prepared you think you are, you aren’t, you need to be able to think on your feet at any given moment in time, introduce yourself to new ideas and adapt. Everyone always tells you that your childhood is to prepare you to be an adult. I don’t agree with that, I think that being a child teaches you to adapt, in fact it teaches you how to learn. In life there are so many things that can’t be prepared for like a parent dying, or seeing your home destroyed or any of the millions of things that life can toss at you. These are things that you must learn to adapt to. I believe in adaptation, in going into an unknown environment and forcing you to adjust, to fit in, or stand out, but be involved, not be walked past. I believe that you can prepare all you want, but it is only as good as what you can think of in a split second. This is what I believe; this is what I live by.

I hope that convinces you to write your own too! And link to it so I can read.

Caio.