Novemeber 29th- Entry

I never had a material object that I cherished the world with. For me it was never about the monetary value of things or even just the thing itself. I remember the little things people do for me or those special moments I had with them more than actually possessions. However, if I have to choose that something that meant the world a lot to me would be my dog tag I got in Hawaii. I went after I graduated the 4th grade. It was really memorable in the fact that it was the first time for me getting out of New York City. The first time taking an airplane a new exotic place was just a feeling you cannot replicate. It felt like I was coming from this small town like in Kanasa to this amazing place like Greece. The place was marvelous and the hotel we stayed at was great. But the most important thing about this vacation was that I got to spend time with my mom and sister. We got to leave all our problems we all had in the city and got to just enjoy the finer things in life. One day, we went to Pearl Harbor memorial and museum. I remember seeing this guy selling these metal chains with a piece of metal attached to it. I was really intrigued by it and I asked my mom is I can have one. She looked at it and eventually, she let brought me and my sister one. I thought it was really cool because it had my name on it, birthday date, address and blood type. Then my mom said something that I don’t forget to this day, “this tag shows who you are, don’t you ever forget that.”

That quote has stuck to me since then. I feel that finding one’s self is so hard to find in this world. But what’s even harder is to accept one’s identity and that one is worth something and that worth cannot be put into monetary value. In this world, you have to be confident in yourself and prove that you are worth something. If you don’t, you will feel like crap and you will try to change yourself to fit someone else’s mold of the “perfect” friend or even significant other. So that dog tag, I keep in my dresser drawer and every day I look at it and it gives me the strength to keep fighting and never change who I am. People will not like you for who you are due to first appearance or just that they don’t like your personality. However, it’s there loss because that person could be that one more friend they could have had. That one person that you could have shared laughs with. That one person that could make your world be so much brighter. That one person could be the “one” that everyone is looking for. So for the readers reading this, never give up who you are and don’t knock people down after the first time. Those people might surprise you.