Week 3

If someone were asked to describe me, somebody that really didn’t know who I was, or what my personality was like, they would describe me as a very quiet and shy person. Like most people I can be shy at first, to people who I am unfamiliar with. Quiet I am not. I am the type of person who loves to make people laugh and keep people entertained. It’s funny, I guess, that through the years of trying to make people laugh and entertain them, it has been the time that I have gotten into the most trouble in my life. Whether I’m in school, in church, on a sports team, or at work, the time when I try to make people laugh seems to be the only time I get in trouble. For instance, when I was at football practice in High School I was the kid running laps after practice, not because I didn’t know what I was doing during practice, it was because I was the one mimicking the coach yelling at us and making everyone laugh. At church I would sing songs with weird voices, and change the words, to what I thought was funny at the time. In school I was a good student, but I was the class clown. In the Fourth Grade, my homeroom class was also my science class at the end of the day. In the morning we would have to watch Chanel 1 news, it is or was a student news organization show that ran nationally. One morning when my fourth grade science teacher, Mrs. Wolf, left to use the bathroom, I taped a fart machine that I got at the fair to the bottom of her chair.  Everyone in the class knew about it, and by lunch it seemed like everyone in the school knew about it. I am surprised that the secret lasted until last period when I made it sound like Mrs. Wolf exploded in her pants.

I also love to argue, I am the type of person who goes down fighting, the type of person who even if he knows he lost the argument, everyone will know his opinion on the subject being discussed. At no point has an argument ever even come close to becoming a physical fight. Emerson states that if you trust yourself, then you can truly be content in whatever you do or wherever you go, “Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.” Looking back on the past now, there is always going to be stupid things that you want to take back, but I think they make you who you are today. Am I the person who still likes to make people laugh and entertain them? Yes of course, but am I going to put a fart machine under my managers chair, while he is telling us our goals for the company, hell no. If I did make some people mad with some of my antics as a young man, they knew that there was no malicious intentions in any of my actions.