You only get to live things once.

Three months ago, the art club at my school opened up board applications for the next year. While I hadn’t attended as many meetings as I should have and probably wouldn’t have been a good candidate on the board for that, I still made the effort to sign up anyway, as I was passionate about art and I also wanted to develop skills like managing responsibilities and such.

After all, I was a full year and a half into school, and I wanted to be involved as much as I could before time ran out; like what my English teacher Mr. Theriault said, you only get to live things once, and high school was one of the things I was living through.

I came over to the interview during lunch time to answer any questions given to me to the very best and utmost honesty I could answer. I left the interview knowing that I used up the fullest of my knowledge and ability in that time period.

To do the best in the moment couldn’t have been done any better, and that was how I held my head high leaving knowing full well I might not be accepted into the board after all

To my very surprise, the current board did accept me to be a part of next year’s board! I was enthralled to see that my application, which didn’t seem like it was going to work for me, worked well for the art club board! 

Even though it was a rather small role, I was content with it; seeing how difficult the third year of school was going to be, it was okay with taking small steps, and just getting used to doing the small things first like weekend meetings and participation.

From this whole ordeal I learned that if I desired something I will go out of my way to achieve it, as I might come to regret never trying in the future when the moment has passed.

The human body and will is like a blank canvas. It takes a while to find an opportunity, an inspiration to strive for. The hardest step is to then actually start, as you’re investing your time into it.

Mistakes will be made, but that is merely apart of the art process, just like the moments in life. But that means it’s a personalized canvas, a canvas nobody else can replicate.

This is how I survive. This is how I endure.