Make the Most of it

            Holbrook, Arizona, population: just over 5,000. This is where I have lived most of my life and to be completely honest I truly love it here. It seems to me that recently I have been hearing people complain a lot about Holbrook. “Holbrook is too small!” “There is nothing to do in Holbrook!” “Holbrook is boring!” Yes I know that Holbrook is a small town, but I believe that since it is a small town it gives you a chance to use your imagination to find something to do. You do not have to live in a big town or even spend money to have fun. You just have to make do with what you have.

            Thinking back on all of the fun memories that have had with my friends in Holbrook, there are a few that stick out the most. The one that first comes to mind happened one Saturday night when my sister, Jennifer, Zach and his sister, Kaitlin, and I were all hanging out together. We were all driving around in Kaitlin’s car trying to decide what to do, when we happened to see these two kids walking down the road. Now, I do not want to say names but for the sake of this blog let’s call these two kids Duncan and Corey. These were two guys we knew from school so we thought we would play a little prank on them. Kaitlin drove around the block and stopped maybe half a block behind them. Zach and I then got out and started running towards them screaming. Scared to death, Duncan and Corey took off running and we chased them almost all the way around the block. They ran into an alley and deciding we should not follow them we got back into Kaitlin’s car. Granted Duncan and Corey didn’t think this was that fun, Zach and I had a lot of fun.

            Another fun memory I have happened on another weekend when Zach and I were hanging out. Zach had come upon a funny idea that we could go do. Zach and I went to Safeway and were trying to get people to sign a petition. Only people had a really hard time taking our petition seriously. If you have ever been to Holbrook in the spring you would know that it gets really windy here. So Zach and I thought we would do the town a favor and start a petition to stop the wind. We would explain that with every signature we get, the wind would blow one mile per hour less. Some people had a hard time grasping this and refused to sign but some people just thought that it was worth a shot. All in all it was one of the most fun nights I have had. Seeing how people reacted when we asked them to sign was hilarious.

            Yes, Holbrook is small, but that does not mean you can’t have fun here. How you spend your nights and how much fun you have is completely in your control. If you decide to just sit around and complain then you probably will have a bad time, but if you choose to use your imagination and come up with something to do then you can have fun and dominate every day.

The Bigger Picture

 

 

 

       I feel like to start off this blog I should briefly explain why I named my blog this. I titled my blog "DomiNate Every Day," (just in case you did not see that already). I had a hard time coming up with a title for this blog, so I tried to think of what I want to write about for the next couple months. After drawing a big blank, I tried to think of some advice that I could share, and this is where my title comes from.

 

       This blog is for me just as much as it is for you. I feel like sometimes, in life, we feel like we are constantly being put down, but we need to stop thinking like this. Even though things are down there will always be something good in your life. Those are the things that we need to focus on. So, to help me remember this I decided to create a life motto. I was going to make my life motto "make the most of every day," but that is too cliché. So I thought I would use my creative juices and incorporate my name into it and make it "dominate every day!"

 

       My whole life I have played basketball, and have had to work hard to finally make it onto the varsity basketball team and this season had been going great! I was going out and playing like my team needed me to play and I felt good. Then a week after Christmas we had a tournament in Chinle, it was here that my season took a turn towards the sour side. I played two games there and I got injured. I am not only upset at the fact that I got injured, but I am upset at the type of injury. After going to the doctor I found out that I had a contusion in my quadriceps or in layman's terms, I have a really bad bruise. A bad bruise. That is why I will miss at least six games my senior year.

 

       Now this could be something that I could get really upset and mad about. However, I am not going to focus on the negative. I just need to look at the big picture. Yes I am going to miss six games of my senior year but if I look at my senior year as a whole I see that I got to play a full season of soccer games, still a majority of basketball games, and I will get to go to Disneyland. Looking at it that way makes my senior year sounds pretty good. The world is not going to end because I could not play six games.

 

       This is what is important to remember. When looking at the big picture you will see what is really important in life. Sometimes, in life, we all need to just take a step back, slow down, and look at the bigger picture. When we do this, it really allows us to evaluate our lives and see what is really important.