Reflections and Images

I had these recurring thoughts of writing this blog post and always forgot to write it until now. Once in a while I would think back about my middle school days and cringe about how I was the typical annoying 6th grader. As a high schooler, I wish I could have went back and told my past self these pieces of advice. Just watch me blog 4 years later as a college student writing advice to the current me about how silly I was in high school! 1. Stop minding other people's business When I think back about 6th grade in particular, I am left with mostly negative thoughts about myself. Of course I am proud that I was an active member of this volunteer club, but if I leave that out of the equation then I was indeed an embarrassment in 6th grade. I am not sure if most middle schools are like this, but there was a lot of drama. Most of the time the drama was so and so liked this person. Other times it was X and Y are a ship and A is a player because apparently he has a list of girls he li...

Because college essay season has already started, I am constantly thinking about basic questions like "Who am I?" and "What makes me me ?" I believe that a defining trait that I have is my obsession with productivity. I think that my interest in productivity and self-improvement started quite early when I was 13 years old. I consider this early because when I was in middle school, I had an ample amount of free time to do what I wanted to do. Despite having this amount of free time, I felt that sometimes I wasn't spending it wisely. In middle school, I would scroll Google Plus, watch random videos on YouTube, and look at Instagram pages of my classmates that I barely knew.  This mediocre lifestyle didn't really satisfy me. I was easily distracted by my computer and phone, constantly multitasked when I did homework, and couldn't practice piano properly. In other words, my mind was scattered and all over the place. At that time, I was more concerned with ...