I don't share the same feeling

 This week has been a regular week for me, it wasn't bad but it wasn't good either but I still living everyday day by day. I don't feel like that but sometimes I just don't have good like everyone but it's okay, it's part of life. However, there were great things that happened this week like we won our game 6-2 against Gateway, my mom and dad made remembered me that they are proud of me for my progress here, for what I have done to be where I'm and that made my week. 

This week I got injured during practice and I have been trying to recover as soon as possible to play with the team, but the coach told me to take it easy, that I should rest to be 100% when the time is correct. I have been running every day, I go to the gym, I eat well, I get enough sleep, and rest, to make everything faster.  People around me say that I should be happy because my team won, and I'm, but not 100% because I wanted to be there with the team, I wanted to feel that excitement for winning, that feeling that makes everyone happy that makes you feel like a champion. I feel like a champion as a team, but not as an individual. 

I do some really weird faces when I play ;(

This week with the injury and everything I have had a lot of time to think about me, I have been thinking about what a great opportunity I have, not only for my education but for my future, for soccer, for everything that you could imagine. My mom is always saying that I'm blessed because God has never left my side, and I agree with her, but sometimes I stop and think about if people are destined to be blessed or to suffer if they suffer, what they have done to deserve that suffering. Also, I read a book called Mercy Rule, it has been the best book I've read this year. I don't really like reading but once in a while, I do it, to try to improve a little bit my writing skills. 

I really recommend this book 

With all this time I had this week I've felt nostalgic, I really miss how everything was in high school, my country, my friends, soccer, classmates, everything, but I guess that after every sacrifice we have a reward, I can't see what mine is yet. I haven't traveled this year and I really want to go Islas de la bahia in Honduras, with my family. Also, I even wanted to change my haircut to Mason Mount's because I really like his hair and because he's also a soccer player. Another interesting thing about the week was that the artist Lil nas X dropped his new album and to be honest I feel that I connect with it, some people don't like his music, and I'm not really a fan of him but sometimes his lyrics hit me hard and sometimes I see him as the coolest person in the world, and sometimes I wanna be like him too in the way that he's not afraid of what people said, he is just being him. I feel sometimes I wanna be like someone else, and I feel that it is not correct, I should not try to be like someone else, I should try to make everyone be like me, because I wanna inspire people to find their own way, to find themselves, but how can I help someone to find themselves when I haven't found my self yet. I feel that my purpose is not clear yet when most people that I know seem to have found their purpose, but I don't know how to find mine. Everyone has a purpose in life, but how do we find it? 

                                                      

I truly believe that luck has nothing to do with it, how successful you are gonna be because I think success is reached through hard work. However, some people say you are really lucky to be where you are, and I don't think that is appropriate to say, because people that really work hard don't like hearing about luck but about what they have been through to be where they are. I believe that everyone builds their own way to success because that's what they are destined to be successful but they're destined to be successful because they work hard what while everyone is sleeping they are working hard. 

I believe that you build your own path because you can't follow the same path as others because people say I wanna be like him or her when I believe that it is worn to think in that way because you have to be you, see the world in your own way.  People should be the best version of themselves and not just be a copy of other people. We all follow someone like famous or someone in our family and we say, " I wanna be like him or her" and there is nothing wrong with it, but I believe that people should like stars, everyone shines in their own way. 

Most people say no one is perfect. 
I say everyone is perfect in their own way. 

Diiferent Eyes, Different Stories

 

Hello guys My name is Jose Palma but my friends call me Josesito. This is my first year at GCC and I'm really excited because I also play soccer for GCC and this is a new experience for me. However, when I'm with my friends we play volleyball. I'm a really shy person and sometimes I don't know how to express myself, so If you feel that I'm talking too much or that I don't talk at all is not because I don't want to, is because I'm scared of talking to people I'm from Honduras where I used to live with my grandparents and I moved to the U.S 4 years ago and now I live with my parents, my cousin and my cat. One of the traditional foods from Honduras and my favorite one are the Baleadas which I used to eat almost every day.

Looks like a burrito or a quesadilla but it tastes better ;)

One of my goals for this year is to get to know my teammates for soccer and get to know more classmates and have more friends, and have good grades, and have fun this year. Another goal that I have for the future is being a pro soccer player, play for a professional team here in the U.S, 

and also play in another country. My favorite team here in the

U.S is the Inter de Miami FC and the reason why this is my favorite team is that his president was one of the best soccer players in the world and he is my favorite retired soccer player David Beckham. 

I have met lots of people since I arrived here, really nice people, I have made really good friends and I'm really grateful for that. However, some people that I have met think that I'm very lucky for what I have, for how my life is, they say that I'm the most fortunate kid they have ever met. Which is something that I kinda agree with them but is something that I'm not proud of. You might wonder why? and to be honest, is because I feel that I don't deserve it. I believe that you receive what you work for,  and I haven't done anything to deserve it, and every time I feel like this when people tell me how fortunate I'm. I wanna work for what I have, I work hard to try to deserve the life that I have, because most guys that come from Honduras are working, struggle to have a decent lifestyle and that's why many people immigrate from Honduras.

I really work hard to make my parents proud, to make them see that I really appreciate what they have done for me and my parents know that. However, sometimes I feel that the work I do is not enough, because people that know my story but don't know me, think that I have an easy life and that's where I feel bad because I start thinking about how many people wish they could have a decent life. Those people really struggle and work hard for it, but I didn't do it. In my eyes, I have to really work hard to deserve what I have but to other people, I just have to relax and wait for everything to come to me. 

I don't want people to see me as a lucky guy from Honduras, I want people to know me for what I have done, for my work, for my discipline. I want people to see me as a guy that uses the opportunities he has to make his family proud, to let them see that I really appreciate their hard work, the sacrifice, and the time they have put into me. Every story is unique, every story has different meanings and different feelings that they express. 

What I want my story to express or the message I want people to get is that there might be lucky people, but there are people who work hard to deserve what they already have, to be worth of what they have received, because there are people that we don't know, that maybe we might never meet, that deserves much more than what they have, because they work hard, and don't stop and think about how lucky other people are, and just keep going.