Now I am a Senior in High School with less than two months till I graduate. It felt like this time wasn’t going to ever hit me in my life ever. Now, I can’t believe when it was a couple years now down to only two months. All my goals, fears, hopes, and intentions have all changed now while I’m typing this letter to my future self. My goals were all so simple just to be successful but now it’s more than that.
Currently, my goal is to achieve and receive my license before I graduate, and to get a job that my father has offered me which I’m going to take. I’ll also be planning to either move out with my brother in-state or out of state. I really hope I stay in state because I’ll miss my friends and family that live here in Louisville. I used to have dreams about going to college and being successful but my views of that changed.
I realized to myself that if I do go to college I’ll have this massive loan over my head to pay. I didn’t want any of that, so I chose not to go to college. If I happened to go to college I would be getting paid the same of a High School graduate for the way I’ll be paying that massive debt. I have plenty of hobbies like creating music, playing musical instruments like my piano, and just listening to music.
I have a passion for music and I never knew why, but I knew I enjoy music more than anyone I’ve ever met. When I’m alone, I listen to music while playing games with my friends. It’s the usual thing what a student from high school does. My favorite snacks are still Hot Fries and drink has to be Cherry Vanilla Coca Cola. My foods consist of a combination of Bosnian and American foods.
I live on a hill beside the Auburndale neighborhood and it’s a one story household living with my mother, father, and my brother. My room if quite small. I just have a queen sized bed, with a really large desk with a computer sitting upon it. The schools I’ve went to were Auburndale Elementary, Lassiter Middle, and where I am now, Doss High. I live outside the city of Louisville by where my friends live and it feels like home even though I physically am not home.
The things I enjoy to do is going out to eat with my brother and his or my friends. It may be generic and boring to others, but I have so much fun just eating and talking with my brother and one of his friends. While at home, I actually don’t have any chores. My mother usually tells me if she either needs help or needs me to get something done and of course I respond and do what she asks.
As far as my religion goes, I don’t believe in a God. I respect other for what they’re beliefs are and I’m not the kind of person to tell them what is wrong and what is right. I don’t have many favorite things in my life, for instance, I don’t have a favorite color, but I do have some favorites. For example, my favorite TV show is called “Scrubs” and I’m not sure if I even have any other favorites.
I don’t own a lot of things, I come from a rather poor family that immigrated from a war torn country to America. It was difficult for my parents, but they managed to raise me into a wonderful young man, which I thank them heavily for. I used to have bad quality clothes, but now I usually wear Nike clothes and designer clothes. I didn’t have an allowance growing up and now, and I never had any kind of pet as well.
The people in my life has to be what I value the most. My family, my mother, Zekira, my father, Murat, and my brother, Alen. They’ve been the backbone to everything I wanted to do and what I accomplished. They’ve been my everything and I wish there was a way I could thank them, but I cannot find out how. There are some other family members that extend out of the branch that’s been here throughout everything.
My cousins, Adnan and Mirsad have been the best in everything, from social interactions to situations that I need help from. I wish I was closer to my Aunts and Uncles, but they haven’t been there for me as often as I wanted them. As well as my grandparents, but I can’t blame them since they live all the way in Bosnia. My best friends, Reggie, Brandon, and Daniel have been there for me and support me from difficult situations and I can’t thank them enough.
I had one teacher that I’ve admired and that is Mr. Waterhouse. He does work somewhere else which I’m foreign of where that is, he has been an outstanding teacher. Now that is only the people that I like talking about. There are people that really do annoy me thinking they consider me as a friend, but I don’t think so.
Some individuals have been extremely fake and don’t even try to act blatant around me, but I don’t really care. As long as it isn’t affecting me in the long term negatively, I’ll be fine with it. I know I’ll be successful because if my parents can do it, then I can do it too. They’ve been through worse than anyone I ever known and I look up to them knowing they can come out here alone raising one kid with another one on the way (me) is just crazy to me.
Now to delve into my past, I was born here in the University of Louisville Hospital on January 16th, 2000 @ 5:00pm. I lived in a really ghetto apartment complex that got broken into about two to three times a month with always something missing. When I was growing up, we moved into a house which turned my childhood around. It gave me more room to have positive experiences and not just having harsh experience.
My mother and father disciplined me as a little kid and I had me fair share of spankings. I don’t mind that cause look at me now, a handsome young man! As a child, I was very outgoing and wanted to play a bunch of games. I loved to ride bikes which caused me to get plenty of bruises cause my brother was teaching me how to ride one.
I committed to all my schools and never changed schools when I was attending them. I took trips, but I won’t say they were vacation trips. I usually visit my cousin in Fort Wayne, but we don’t get along at all, and I really don’t like him. All he did and still does, is act childish and I could go on and on about him, but I choose not to. I also visited down in BG, Iowa, and Detroit to visit family, but I never went on an actual vacations.
Important events that happened in my life is when my cousin got shot. He was shot recently last year and the bullet went through his right lung, and out of his lower back. He almost passed away during surgery, but revived him by massaging his heart. I am so thankful that he lived because he’s my closest cousin and it would hurt me hard to see him pass away and seeing the faces on my aunt and uncle. He did get paralyzed from the waste down, but he just cares that he’s alive and I do too.
Now to get into my future, I just plan on being happy and successful. I predict that I’ll be married with two kids and being happy. I want to start my own Sprinter Van Business with my brother and father, hoping it’ll work out right. I really am looking forward to many things in the future and hoping it’ll go my way, but that is for me to get right.
I’m looking forward to moving out honestly. This means I can finally do whatever I want and whatever I please whenever I want. Having foreign parents is quite the struggle! Seriously, I would miss them heavily when I do. I also look forward to getting my license and just driving which should happen very soon.
I might be moving down to Memphis, Tennessee, but I really hope I don’t! I love staying here in Louisville and rather move out to the east end or a little more west in the west end. It’s very important to me having friends and family near me and I love to stay in Louisville, but I’m not sure how everything is going to work out moving out.
I’ll probably be looking at this in the future saying how I didn’t move down to Tennessee, which I hope, because I’m not even near ready to move out of Louisville. For vacation, I really want to go to Europe in a different country after I visit Bosnia. I wanna visit Germany to see my cousins and the things they have to offer there is exciting to me. I wanna travel the world and see plenty of things. I also want to go to Japan and taste all the foods they have and see what their culture has to offer.
My fears of the world is simply not knowing who will be my wife and if I’ll be able to even have kids. I have a bunch of fears knowing if it’ll be easy to pay my bills, or difficult. I’m afraid of random negative events that may happen. I also hope that none of my loved ones will ever be taken from me. My biggest fear, is knowing the my parents won’t be here to see all of it.
How I grown throughout my years in highschool is that I’ve always been an AB student, and now while being an upperclassmen, the random C. I had many different goals I wanted back when I was a freshman. I wanted to go to college but I didn’t know what I wanted to do, but then when I was a sophomore I finally found what I wanted to do. It was Chemistry, but even that I didn’t want to do it when I was a junior.
When I was a junior, this is when I found out I wasn’t sure if I wanted to go to college, and it took me awhile to find out what I actually want to do. Then later on, when I was a Senior, I found out that I didn’t want to go to college. I just want to be apart of my father’s business and take it over when he passes.
How my growth has changed the way I view my family is that I have that love for them. It was always there, but now when I got older and older I love my parents and let them know that everyday. I remember when I was simply a child and it was difficult for me to understand why they do the things they do, but now I understand all of that.
My life is precious and my point of view of things have changed a lot. For instance, I have a smaller circle of friends and not to make new ones because I don’t trust new people. I hope the future me has the same idea as the me typing this right now. I’ve learned so many things that it is too much to even list, but I’m glad I have.
The most important thing to me is family, and without them, I would be nothing. They have been there for me through thick and thin and I appreciate it a lot. So are my friends as well, without them, I wouldn’t know what I wanted to do in my life. Friends and Family both gave me great views of life and I am here to thank them forever.