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Chad Biger

Miss Mudd

English 151

Looking Bright?

          When I think of the future it always confuses me and makes me feel like I can control and not control many aspects of my life. there are so many scenarios that can come from just a little actions. I wish I could predict the future but sadly we have to wait and guess what it has in store for us. When I think of the future I sometimes wonder what it has in store for my family, friends, and me. I feel like there are so many different paths I could take in life and who I am friends with and what part of my family I am with can control the way I think about certain things.

           My family is huge part of me and I hope will still be a big part in my future. They have taught me so much over the years and have been there for me when I was feeling down. The way my family makes me feel is like I can do anything that I put my mind to. I love this feeling and hope that they continue to support me throughout my life. My mom, dad, and brothers are the major people in my life. I was brought up doing everything for myself. This was not because my family was not there but because they were teaching me how to become a better more experienced person. I was always made to work on my own car, paint, do construction, and take care of the lawn. I view this as petty work that I didn’t need to do but now I realize that all that they were doing was setting me up to live on my own. I think I could build a house if I put my mind to it. I feel like they have taught me that much over the years and hope they teach me ten times more in the future.

           Another thing I see when I think about the future is my friends. I have always had a good set of friends that no matter what I do they wont see me any different. My friends my change over the years but I feel like I always have someone I can trust and rely on. I think about the future when I think about my friends because they have the power to change it weather I like it or not. Your friends can influence you and push you to do things you never thought possible. This can be a good or bad thing, if you fail into a group of friends that don’t care about the way they look or about anything else than you become just like them. But if you surround yourself with a group of people who like to go do things that matter and dress nice and respect people then you in turn will respect people and dress right. It amazes me how much your friends can have an affect on your life and how important it is to have a good set of them. Without my friends I would be lost and would feel very alone. I feel like I would not be where I am today with out them and I hope that they support me and my many endeavors that are yet to come.

          The main thing I try to fathom when I look at the future is where will I be in 5 years 10 years. I would love to know what job I will have who will I be friends with and who I wont be. It would make things so much easier if I could just see where each path takes me, and who is on those paths with me. I find it crazy that so simple and small actions can cause such a big outcome later on in life or just right down the road. Something as simple a walking to work instead of driving can cause you to meet someone or find something on the ground. I don’t know why but it feels kind of overwhelming to think about and try to figure out what is next on the long path you are on. I believe that things happen for a reason and that you meet certain people for a reason. No matter what life brings something always come good out of it. I found a quote that I liked and it said “you cannot ask why when things are bad if you don’t ask why if things are good”. 

          Many things can affect the future but there are things that are certain. The main one being family and friends they will always be there with your through thick and thin. Another is pain and love we will always feel something for another person and we will always get hurt. The last thing that is for certain is change no matter how hard we try we cannot prevent change; it is a natural thing that we cannot help.

Chad Bigler

Miss Mudd

English 151

Love – Food – Hate

          Food has always been a big part of my life; for as long as I can remember I loved to eat food. Food and the food industry is always changing and will continue to change no matter what we do. I believe that we change food the way we change the style of clothes we buy. If we don’t buy certain foods the food companies will stop making it and make more of whatever the average customer is buying on a weekly basis. So believing that food changes my relationship with food is always changing. 

          I change my eating habits about around once a week. I will go from eating a lot of one thing one week and the next week eat something completely different. Food to me is a love – hate relationship sometimes I love it and sometimes I cannot stand it. I feel like I have to be in the mood for certain foods, but when I want some food I want it.  I love food that is good for you but I also love that is not so good for the body. This is something that is wrong with my diet I believe I eat too much of the food that is not as good for you instead of going for the things that help maintain a healthy diet.  I hate food just as much as I love it; I mainly hate it when I eat to much of one thing.  I will get sick of it and not eat it for a long time. Every time I do this I think of  a quote “ to much of a good thing is a bad thing”. I believe this to be true if you do anything to much for a long period of time you will get tired of it. This is the same way with food, that’s why there are so many different types and kinds of food. We cannot eat the same thing over and over again.

          My relationship with food has had a major change every winter for the past 4 years. Every year at the end of fall I stop eating everything I love and force myself to not eat at all. This is because I started wrestling season. I drop 30 to 40 pounds every time the season starts. This is not a good thing but its an easy way to lose weight and keep it off. I would live on energy bars and yogurt for  months. During this time I had to hate food, this was hard always hard at first but  as the weeks went on it got easier. I normally eat fast food a few times a week, drink sugar drinks, and eat basically whatever I wanted. Towards the end of the season the smell of fast food made me sick to my stomach. I found this funny because I went from eating all the time to it making me sick to even smell it. The way interpreted this is how bad fast food really is for you and how we don’t realize  it until you don’t eat it for awhile. I still choose not to eat fast food as much as I used to and I see a difference in how my body feels when I do eat it.

          The way I view food today causes me to question almost everything I eat. Everyone these days are going crazy over how to get themselves to eat healthier and more sustainable. The problem with this is that families in poverty cannot afford buying green. This makes me think what has the food industry come to when I cheeseburger from mc donalds cost less than a head of lettuce. This makes me feel like our major food companies have failed us. The food industry should be more worried about how safe the food is to eat and how sustainable it is to produce, not how much money can we make and how fast and easy we can do it. Food is a need and we should have the best food for you no matter what. We should not have to worry about getting sick if we eat a hamburger. The food industry makes it so expensive to buy healthy food and food that is bad for you cheap that we cannot always afford to go green and eat what is right. A family in poverty can choose to go to a fast food restraint and eat two times a day or go to a store and eat healthy food once a day. The question I always ask myself is why this hasn’t been fixed yet when we claim to be the greatest country on earth. If this is true how come we have so many problems within our country.

          Food is a part of everyone not just me and my relationship with it will always change, just like the food it self will always change. When someone says I never change my relationship with food is a complete lie. They change it because food changes it for them. I believe that food should be healthier but as of now all I can do is love it and hate it.