Lindsey's Essential Question

My essential question is a common one, " What makes me happy", I think what makes me happy has a lot to do with love for family, friends, poetry and music. I also love to dream about a future with a good carreer , a wonderful husband and beautiful children.

I love my nieces and nephews to distraction and I would do anything for them. It makes me happy to hear them giggle at something I did or to rock the younger ones to sleep. The smell of a baby's hair is the sweetest perfume on earth. It makes my day when they won't go to bed with out calling me to say goodnight. If i were to lose one of them the loop that is my life would cease to exist. Losing them is also my biggest fear, going away to college is going to be murder for me .

My sisters and I aren' t all that close because of our age differences but I love them too. They give me advice that they can only give because they have made the same mistakes that i am facing. Angie got pregant at sixteen and i am now sixteen and her mistakes gave me a heads up to the fact that guys can be very convincing when they want something. The only time i have been propostioned by a boy her advice rang in my ears and i was able to say no. I thank her for this now because he turned out to be very bad for me. Annette was the first of my sisters to graduate high school and she had a six month old baby girl on graduation day. I am trying to follow her example and graduate even though it will be hard. Sara didn't graduate but she did wait till she was out of her teens to have baby and she taught me to never give up on what I want. Think my stubborness comes from her. Paula was the first to go to college but she quit and now regrets it. She is urging me to pick a college and set my goals to get into that college. I am sad to say I am draging my feet on that one.

I don't have many friends but the friends i do have are going to be my friends for life. They are true friends because I won't be friends with any one who will stab me in the back. I love my friends like they were family. I seem to attract the outcasts and loners but that is ok with me because they are some of the best people on earth even though they have their flaws and problems. It makes them unique.