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#348 The three questions that are asked in this blog kids ask them selfs all the time. But think the two most important questions “Do I matter ?” and “Do I belong”. A lot of kids when they get bullied a lot or yelled at all the time or when they don’t get included and get put down they will cry and feel that they do not mater and its sad because thats when they start making really bad choices like suicide and stuff. The same idea applies for the question “Do i belong” because when they ask them selfs this they don’t think they matter. Then they start making bad choices like drugs, alcohol, and fighting. Thats when they start losing high school education and job opportunities.
#344. I think the decisions I make in middle school will affect me in high school and beyond because most bad decisions people make follow them pretty much their whole lives. Since I am only a few months away from high school, the things I do in middle school will be easy to follow me. A lot of times, if I were to make a good decision it would follow me around like a bad decision would because I wouldn’t be “cool”. Or if I were to make a bad decision it would follow me around like a good decision would because I would be “cool”. Many decisions can be misinterpreted as the opposite. The three questions we were asked on Monday do mean a few things to me. They don’t mean a lot because I am really just now finding out who I am, whether I matter, and whether I belong. I think that goes for everyone because you really don’t know who you are until you find out whether you belong or whether you matter.
#308 I think that the decisions I do make in middle school will affect me in high school and beyond. I feel this way because I’m at a point where I’m trying to find myself. I can decide who I want to be pretty much. If I decide to make terrible choices here, right now in middle school they can follow me for the rest of my life. If I make good choices here, right now in middle school I will have them follow me also but it would make a good impact on my life. The questions: Who am I? Do I matter? Do I belong?...Those questions do mean a lot to me. Every time I hear those questions I think to myself, am I becoming who I want to be? Do I get affected by the people around me? Thoughts like that come to my mind when I hear think about those three important questions.
I think these are very important questions in life. I think the decisions that we make in our middle school life will at some point impact our future life. We won’t be able to answer these questions in our lives right now because we don’t even know who we are yet. We are all middle school students who are stuck in the middle. We aren’t kids but then again we aren’t adults. It’s a tough time for all of us. We’re all changing in many different ways. I think these questions do mean something to me. Ever since we had the assembly I have been thinking about the questions and how and when I will be able to answer them. I think we all will be able to answer them at one point in our lives, just not right now.
The three questions, who am I? do i matter? and do i belong? really do matter to me. The decisions i make today will affect me later on. We all learn a lot of things as we grow older. I think a lot of kids think they know a lot about life when they are just learning. Life has a lot to it and many mistakes can come, depending on the choices you make. I already know that I want to make good decisions in my life, and I want to do good for me, and others in my life. These three questions are important to me because I know I matter, I do want to know what to do in life, and i know that I belong. Everyone is important, and everyone has a purpose. I feel like everyone should make success out of what they like to do, and what makes them happy. Anyone can make their life a success.
The decisions I make today in middle school are going to affect me in high school, because I know I am fun to be around, somewhat smart, and I care about my friends, family, and my life. I am myself and what I do will affect my middle school and high school life. I think the decisions I choose to make are going to matter. If I choose to make a bad decision then it will be my fault, and I know others will confront me or talk about it with or without me. If I make a good choice then others may tell me what they think about it. I do actually feel that I do belong in my middle school, and I hope I will belong in high school. The reason I feel like I belong, is because my friends care about me, and I care about them and we help each other out. I don’t think I would feel like I belong without my friends or family.
I believe that the decisions we make today affect you in high school and beyond. As middle school students, we are still trying to figure out who we are. We try new things and decide things like what kinds of people we are going to hang out with and what we want to do in the future. These decisions will affect the rest of our lives. If you choose, in middle school, to hang out with the wrong kinds of people, that will affect the kind of person you will be in the future. This example shows that a ton of what you do in middle school will stick with you long term. I believe it’s important to make good decisions as a teen because they will affect your future and the person you are becoming. You need to believe in yourself and make decisions you won’t regret.
# 314 The decisions we make in middle school affect us a lot in high school! We may get in trouble in middle school that will definitely affect us in high school. We might also do some thing in middle school like trio, that will help us in high school and to get in to collage. If you join the AVID program that will affect you in high school. But not just these types of stuff. How we act in middle school will affect, I'm not saying its a bad thing but it middle school if your popular that could affect who you are in high school. These questions mean a little to me, the one that matters the most to me is “do i matter”. Every one matters! No matter what people say you always matter to some one! Even though it doesn't feel like it all the time you still do.
#344 dear #348, I think that you have a really good point, but do these questions mean anything to you? And there are plenty more things that make people start doing drugs, alcohol, or committing suicide. ONE of them is bullying.
#330 I ask myself do the decisions I make today affect me in high school and beyond? I know that my decisions I make now will affect me in high school and beyond. If I chose a path of drugs that will change my life forever and that would not be a very good life for me at all. But if I chose a path to do great in school and stay in school I could total change my life can and will be effected. I now I have to be a nerd and do good in school so I can have a life that I will never have got a chose a if I did not chose the right path.
336 I think the decisions we make today will affect us through high school and beyond. If we make stupid choices now such as drugs or drinking, those habits or memories will stick with us. They may even stick with other people that you affected with your bad habits. Not doing well in school may affect your future as well. It could become a habit and make high school and college much harder. Some choices we make today could also affect us in a positive way. If we learn to say no to peer pressure and we do our best in school we could be very successful in the future. These questions do mean something to me, I think its important to know answers to these questions. They can help you learn about yourself and others.
#310 I think the decisions we make today in middle school affect us greatly in and beyond high school. The decisions we make now can make us get into bad or good habits or actions. Also some actions you make now change you and what you like. These questions mean something to me because they help you see who you are. Another thing about the questions is that they make you want to accomplish more in life. They do this because you want to matter and belong in life.
#326 If you decide to do bad stuff now then when you get older it is just going to get worst. If you don’t want to do good in school then you wont do good when you get to high school because you have decided to not start very well in middle school. Bad things now make habits for high school and those habits can get worse. These questions to mean that what do you like to do what do you you want to do when you grow up. Where do you belong and with who. What will you do to get to where you want to be. that is what those questions mean to me.
318 Who am I, do I matter and do I belong are questions that we answer during out time in middle school. Our choices and decisions do shape our future. Unfortunately most people don’t understand that concept. If you decide to fit in with people who do drugs and skip school then in high school you will continue to hang around them. Most of those people will become drop outs leaving you with no one to hang out with. If you don’t fit in when your friends drop out then you will most likely drop out too. But if you start hanging out with people who do a lot of extra curricular activities and get good grades then you will most likely become more outgoing and will most likely graduate high school and go on to college just like your friends. Also when you figure out what makes you happy you will continue to do it no matter what because it makes you who you are. If you join band because you love music and playing an instrument then you will stick with it no matter what even if someone tells you not to. If you get into drugs you won’t quit because someone tells you to you will keep doing it because it makes you happy. I think we need to me more consensus about our decisions and how they are impacting our future.
I think that the decisions I make today really will affect me in high school and beyond because maybe I do will do something now that I will regret and it might be a habit that I will not be able to get out of. Another reason is that the type of people that you hang out with today will be the type of people that you will hang out with in high school, so we need to make sure we hang out with the right group of people. You need to make sure that you are hanging out with people you feel safe around not people that might make you feel insecure. The things I choose to do today will have a big impact on my life because we are barley starting to figure out our personalities and what we like to do. Maybe if i start making good decisions today, I will continue to do later on in life. I have friends that don’t always make the right choices and I do my best to help them. Don’t get me wrong though, I myself have done some pretty bad decisions but I am trying to stop and help my friends stop too. This question meant allot to me because I am always trying to do the best for my future.
The decisions you make now will affect you later in life. With the people you hang out with will affect you. Lets say if you hang out with the popular kids and you don’t want them to think your more of a loser, so you pick on people. When you get older it’s more likely that your going to be mean to people. Your placed in a group. People might think like your all mean and don’t want to hang out with you. But the also people can get scared of you and how will you more friends if your reputation is being all bad and being a bully. Everything you do can affect you in life. Even if it’s good or bad. Just make the decision you think it’s right. Don’t go on doing dumb things. When people get mad or all depressed they say that no one loves them and say they don’t matter. Someone in the world loves and cares about you. If you don’t realize that then you should really think about it. You make your own life so the people you hang out with and all the things you do make up you.
#348 I somewhat agree with what your saying, but I think some of these things are claimed to be true like kids feeling like they don't belong, and I bet we've all felt that, but I honestly don't think they would automatically want to commit suicide. It does happen though. It's hard feeling like you don't matter or you aren't someone and you don;t belong. Everyone belongs in their own way.
#316 The decisions i make today will affect me in high school and beyond. They will affect me positively and negatively. It all just depends on the decisions I make. I know that for a fact that the decisions I will make in the future will help me more then ever. My past decisions affected me in the beginning of the middle school, but I rapidly overcame those choices and started to do better and succeed a lot more. I learned from the bad decisions I made, and after I did I was ready to take on more difficult things and change the for myself. I think of the questions who am I?, do I matter?, and do I belong? all the time. I think of them because in middle it is really hard to stay yourself or be you. Better yet, if you think about does anyone really know who there are? I think of those questions when I’m going through something hard, or if I just can’t handle something thats happened. I ask myself those questions when i need reassurance or when I need to get other things off my mind. The question that I think most teens ask themselves all the time is who am I? In the generation it is hard to know who you are and if you belong or if you matter. Just remember to have patience with life, don’t rush because you couldn’t live the answers. You will find who you are and if you matter and if you belong.
#348 I completely agree with this. A lot of people do make bad decisions because they don't feel like they are important. Everyone has a reason to feel important. Everyone should have a successful life, and everyone should feel like they belong. #328
Yes, I do believe the decisions we make today affect high school and beyond. If someone chooses to start smoking cigarettes, or drink or do drugs now, they could take those habits with them as they move up in life. The decisions we make now could be the most important choices we ever make. These questions do mean something to me. I think every one matters, and belongs to different things in their own way. For example, every group of friends generally has a common interest. You belong with the people who like doing things that you like to do. Everyone also has certain personality traits that just make them them, and different from everyone else. They might not notice how there different from everyone else, but no one is exactly the same.
#344 Dear #332, I think you are so right about still trying to figure out who we are. And it is so important to make the right decisions as a teen but sometimes you want to fit in so you force yourself to make the wrong decisions.
#310 #314, I agree with you that every one matters, but I don't understand why you say being popular can affect you in high school. Couldn't a person be not so popular in middle school and then the meet a new group of people in high school and be popular or the other way around?
Yes I do think the decisions I make right now in middle school will affect me in the near future. I think this because if you chose to do bad right now then when you get older these choices will follow you into your adulthood. Like for instance if you start doing drugs and drinking lots of alcohol now, then it will form as an addiction when you are older. If you are an addict and you try to get a job when you are older,no one is going to want to hire you. You wont be very reliable. Also you will lose everything and everyone you know. Or if you decide to start doing nasty things with your girlfriend or boyfriend. What will happen when you have a baby in the 10th or 11th grade? You might not even have a job and you are not going to be able to afford or take care of a baby. #304
I really agree with you, those programs will help you, but some people also think they don't matter just because they might not be the coolest people around. And yes, everyone does matter, and everyone has friends that love you even though sometimes they forget.
318 #308 Our friends do shape who we are it may be unintentional but it dose happen. Like a lot of kids try to do better in class and that makes their friends want to do better too. Or If one starts drugs or something bad you may want to stay friends with them so you may start too.
#348 I agree that after someone has been bulied the feel like they dont matter and they start to do bad things and I think that everyone does matter even if they been bullied by other people. #326
#330 I ask myself do the decisions I make today affect me in high school and beyond? I know that my decisions I make now will affect me in high school and beyond. If I chose a path of drugs that will change my life forever and that would not be a very good life for me at all. But if I chose a path to do great in school and stay in school I could total change my life can and will be effected. I now I have to be a nerd and do good in school so I can have a life that I will never have got a chose a if I did not chose the right path.
#302 I do think that any decisions that I make today in middle school will affect me when I get into high school, college, and when I get my career started. When ever I think about the things I am doing I think ahead about how this will affect me in the future, like if I make straight A’s, then I will be placed in very advanced classes getting me into a top college, and it will be almost completely paid. If I do terrible in school I will probably drop out of school, and get little wage at a Wendy’s with a diction to beer. When I think about these questions of, Who am I, Do I matter, and Do I belong, I believe each question does mean something to me. These questions mean that who am I really in the world, am I a student at a middle school, or am I a popular kid in my community, or maybe a shy, helpful comforting friend. When you are asked if you matter I would think of, do people recognize me for me, and not a person that is just there, or maybe a person that they can use to get out of trouble, instead of a kid that people would like to be around. If you are thinking that do you belong ask your self this do people want you around, do they tell you everything, or maybe want you to help them with a problem.
306 To 308 I agree will what you had to say in your blog, you are trying to find your self now in life and making the right decisions with help with that.
332 Dear 310, I agree with what you said to #314... Popularity shouldn't change wether or not you matter. Everyone matters, no matter how popular you are.
#344 I think you're right. But not only bad decisions follow you. If you do something good then that can follow you too. But I think you're right on when you said a lot of things can be misinterpreted. #342
The decisions I make today, as a middle school student, would not affect me by the time I get to high school. The reason I say this is because when I get to high school I am going to think differntly and make good better decisions then the ones I do today. Like maybe I did decisions that got me in trouble or things like that. And when you start being in high school you become mature and act like an adult instead of a teen. same when I get beyond high school and move on. The 3 questions, well they do matter to me. I think that they should matter to me because I think they will help me know who I might be as a high scool student and adult. I would also like to know if i do matter or who I am really going to be.
#312 I think the decisions I make in middle school will affect me in high school and beyond. I think it will affect me because the choices I make today will make me who I am in the future. Also because you change though out your life so the choices and decisions we make today will change in the future. The question “Who am I?” means, what is unique about you and what describes you the best that is my personal opinion. The question “Do I matter?” to me it means that you were meant to matter and you have people that care for you so of course you matter. The question “Do I belong?” means of course you belong because you were brought into this world to find a place where you feel safe and good. Theses questions do matter to me a lot in life.
#324 In my opinion decisions I make middle school can greatly affect my high school years. Middle school is the time that I decide what type of person I am. What type of people i hang out with or how i choose to present myself. All of the answers to the questions asked on Monday will affect me through my life. High school is the time I figure out what I want your career to be and how I want my future to come out. Yes, the three questions do matter to me and often times I do ask myself the three questions and have to remind myself of the answers. To me the answers to the three questions will help to develop my future.
#316 hey #348 everyone is important! no matter what your title is(Bill Gates) Everyone is a person no one is better or more important. We all are the same and should be treated equally.
#348 I feel that when you said Bill Gates is way more important in this room is quite untrue. Everyone is equally important. Bill Gates may be very important, but we're people too, and we all have a purpose in life, and it's not just to see who's famous or who's not. Maybe some of us haven't found our purpose in life yet, and that's okay. #320
Hey #348 I don't really agree with you about some people being more important than others because I think we were all created the same in the sense of being human beings and being important. #304
318 I agree with #310 popularity doesn't effect us in high school because those things change what isn't going to change is what you enjoy doing and who you enjoy spending your time with. No matter what the things that make you smile are now they are still going to make you smile in 20 years.
336 To 348, I disagree with you. I think everyone matters and it may seem some people are more important than others but one of us may grow up and be just like Bill Gates, you never know.
#322 I agree with you. Everyone matters, you never meet people that don't have someone who really cares about them. Its really sad though, because everyone cares what people think too much. A lot of people make decisions based on what other people think. #328
Dear #324 I agree with you because the decisions you make and how you present your self will make who you are in the future. I also ask those three questions to myself too. #312
I have to agree with what you said about decisions following us. Also, I agree with what you said about people confusing the rite choice for wrong and wrong choice for rite. :) #324
I have to agree with what you said about decisions following us. Also, I agree with what you said about people confusing the rite choice for wrong and wrong choice for rite. :) #324
923 These questions do mean something to me. So yes what you do now in middle school dose affect you in high school. Such as grades you get bad grades now you can be in a class that is doubled or after school or before school. The person you are now can change form middle school to high school. The people that you hang out with now can be different in high school. The people that you think care about now may change or stay caring about you. You may think you belong now but wait until high school. You will think school is so complicated and you might fell that you don’t know no body.
to: #324 I think you are so right about figuring out who we are in middle school because you really don't find out your true friends and whether you belong or whether you matter until you reach the end or close to the end of high school.
hey #338 I agree with you. If someone chooses to start smoking or do drugs now they are most likely going to bring those habits with them in the future. Good job! ;-)
Dear #340, I think you are right with the whole regret/habit thing. Most kids do things they know they will regret just to fit in and it ends up following them and most likely ruining their lives. Like say a kid drank. He/She knows that eventually they will be so stressed they will want a drink and then it becomes an addiction problem. #344
dear #344 Thank you for agreeing with me, I know most kids will end up doing something they regret and it might be because they're friends are doing it or something, and its usually not a good idea even though it might seem like it at the time.\ #340
blog#204 The biggest problems teens face today is how to avoid getting involved with people that do drugs. The reason I think this is a problem is that when people get involved with others that do drugs they may try to make them quit. When they try to stop other people they may find themselves doing the drugs too. The way to solve this problem is to never get involved with these people and think you can change them. The only way you can get them to stop is to leave them alone and let their parents find out. Although this may take a while. But its worth the wait in the end. Its better than getting involved with drugs yourself.
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#348
The three questions that are asked in this blog kids ask them selfs all the time. But think the two most important questions “Do I matter ?” and “Do I belong”. A lot of kids when they get bullied a lot or yelled at all the time or when they don’t get included and get put down they will cry and feel that they do not mater and its sad because thats when they start making really bad choices like suicide and stuff. The same idea applies for the question “Do i belong” because when they ask them selfs this they don’t think they matter. Then they start making bad choices like drugs, alcohol, and fighting. Thats when they start losing high school education and job opportunities.
#344.
I think the decisions I make in middle school will affect me in high school and beyond because most bad decisions people make follow them pretty much their whole lives. Since I am only a few months away from high school, the things I do in middle school will be easy to follow me. A lot of times, if I were to make a good decision it would follow me around like a bad decision would because I wouldn’t be “cool”. Or if I were to make a bad decision it would follow me around like a good decision would because I would be “cool”. Many decisions can be misinterpreted as the opposite. The three questions we were asked on Monday do mean a few things to me. They don’t mean a lot because I am really just now finding out who I am, whether I matter, and whether I belong. I think that goes for everyone because you really don’t know who you are until you find out whether you belong or whether you matter.
#308
I think that the decisions I do make in middle school will affect me in high school and beyond. I feel this way because I’m at a point where I’m trying to find myself. I can decide who I want to be pretty much. If I decide to make terrible choices here, right now in middle school they can follow me for the rest of my life. If I make good choices here, right now in middle school I will have them follow me also but it would make a good impact on my life. The questions: Who am I? Do I matter? Do I belong?...Those questions do mean a lot to me. Every time I hear those questions I think to myself, am I becoming who I want to be? Do I get affected by the people around me? Thoughts like that come to my mind when I hear think about those three important questions.
#342
I think these are very important questions in life. I think the decisions that we make in our middle school life will at some point impact our future life. We won’t be able to answer these questions in our lives right now because we don’t even know who we are yet. We are all middle school students who are stuck in the middle. We aren’t kids but then again we aren’t adults. It’s a tough time for all of us. We’re all changing in many different ways. I think these questions do mean something to me. Ever since we had the assembly I have been thinking about the questions and how and when I will be able to answer them. I think we all will be able to answer them at one point in our lives, just not right now.
#328
The three questions, who am I? do i matter? and do i belong? really do matter to me. The decisions i make today will affect me later on. We all learn a lot of things as we grow older. I think a lot of kids think they know a lot about life when they are just learning. Life has a lot to it and many mistakes can come, depending on the choices you make. I already know that I want to make good decisions in my life, and I want to do good for me, and others in my life. These three questions are important to me because I know I matter, I do want to know what to do in life, and i know that I belong. Everyone is important, and everyone has a purpose. I feel like everyone should make success out of what they like to do, and what makes them happy. Anyone can make their life a success.
#320
The decisions I make today in middle school are going to affect me in high school, because I know I am fun to be around, somewhat smart, and I care about my friends, family, and my life. I am myself and what I do will affect my middle school and high school life. I think the decisions I choose to make are going to matter. If I choose to make a bad decision then it will be my fault, and I know others will confront me or talk about it with or without me. If I make a good choice then others may tell me what they think about it. I do actually feel that I do belong in my middle school, and I hope I will belong in high school. The reason I feel like I belong, is because my friends care about me, and I care about them and we help each other out. I don’t think I would feel like I belong without my friends or family.
#332
I believe that the decisions we make today affect you in high school and beyond. As middle school students, we are still trying to figure out who we are. We try new things and decide things like what kinds of people we are going to hang out with and what we want to do in the future. These decisions will affect the rest of our lives. If you choose, in middle school, to hang out with the wrong kinds of people, that will affect the kind of person you will be in the future. This example shows that a ton of what you do in middle school will stick with you long term. I believe it’s important to make good decisions as a teen because they will affect your future and the person you are becoming. You need to believe in yourself and make decisions you won’t regret.
# 314
The decisions we make in middle school affect us a lot in high school! We may get in trouble in middle school that will definitely affect us in high school. We might also do some thing in middle school like trio, that will help us in high school and to get in to collage. If you join the AVID program that will affect you in high school. But not just these types of stuff. How we act in middle school will affect, I'm not saying its a bad thing but it middle school if your popular that could affect who you are in high school. These questions mean a little to me, the one that matters the most to me is “do i matter”. Every one matters! No matter what people say you always matter to some one! Even though it doesn't feel like it all the time you still do.
#344
dear #348,
I think that you have a really good point, but do these questions mean anything to you? And there are plenty more things that make people start doing drugs, alcohol, or committing suicide. ONE of them is bullying.
#330
I ask myself do the decisions I make today affect me in high school and beyond?
I know that my decisions I make now will affect me in high school and beyond. If I chose a path of drugs that will change my life forever and that would not be a very good life for me at all. But if I chose a path to do great in school and stay in school I could total change my life can and will be effected. I now I have to be a nerd and do good in school so I can have a life that I will never have got a chose a if I did not chose the right path.
336
I think the decisions we make today will affect us through high school and beyond. If we make stupid choices now such as drugs or drinking, those habits or memories will stick with us. They may even stick with other people that you affected with your bad habits. Not doing well in school may affect your future as well. It could become a habit and make high school and college much harder. Some choices we make today could also affect us in a positive way. If we learn to say no to peer pressure and we do our best in school we could be very successful in the future. These questions do mean something to me, I think its important to know answers to these questions. They can help you learn about yourself and others.
#310
I think the decisions we make today in middle school affect us greatly in and beyond high school. The decisions we make now can make us get into bad or good habits or actions. Also some actions you make now change you and what you like. These questions mean something to me because they help you see who you are. Another thing about the questions is that they make you want to accomplish more in life. They do this because you want to matter and belong in life.
#326
If you decide to do bad stuff now then when you get older it is just going to get worst. If you don’t want to do good in school then you wont do good when you get to high school because you have decided to not start very well in middle school. Bad things now make habits for high school and those habits can get worse. These questions to mean that what do you like to do what do you you want to do when you grow up. Where do you belong and with who. What will you do to get to where you want to be. that is what those questions mean to me.
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Who am I, do I matter and do I belong are questions that we answer during out time in middle school. Our choices and decisions do shape our future. Unfortunately most people don’t understand that concept. If you decide to fit in with people who do drugs and skip school then in high school you will continue to hang around them. Most of those people will become drop outs leaving you with no one to hang out with. If you don’t fit in when your friends drop out then you will most likely drop out too. But if you start hanging out with people who do a lot of extra curricular activities and get good grades then you will most likely become more outgoing and will most likely graduate high school and go on to college just like your friends. Also when you figure out what makes you happy you will continue to do it no matter what because it makes you who you are. If you join band because you love music and playing an instrument then you will stick with it no matter what even if someone tells you not to. If you get into drugs you won’t quit because someone tells you to you will keep doing it because it makes you happy. I think we need to me more consensus about our decisions and how they are impacting our future.
#340
I think that the decisions I make today really will affect me in high school and beyond because maybe I do will do something now that I will regret and it might be a habit that I will not be able to get out of. Another reason is that the type of people that you hang out with today will be the type of people that you will hang out with in high school, so we need to make sure we hang out with the right group of people. You need to make sure that you are hanging out with people you feel safe around not people that might make you feel insecure. The things I choose to do today will have a big impact on my life because we are barley starting to figure out our personalities and what we like to do. Maybe if i start making good decisions today, I will continue to do later on in life. I have friends that don’t always make the right choices and I do my best to help them. Don’t get me wrong though, I myself have done some pretty bad decisions but I am trying to stop and help my friends stop too. This question meant allot to me because I am always trying to do the best for my future.
#322
The decisions you make now will affect you later in life. With the people you hang out with will affect you. Lets say if you hang out with the popular kids and you don’t want them to think your more of a loser, so you pick on people. When you get older it’s more likely that your going to be mean to people. Your placed in a group. People might think like your all mean and don’t want to hang out with you. But the also people can get scared of you and how will you more friends if your reputation is being all bad and being a bully. Everything you do can affect you in life. Even if it’s good or bad. Just make the decision you think it’s right. Don’t go on doing dumb things. When people get mad or all depressed they say that no one loves them and say they don’t matter. Someone in the world loves and cares about you. If you don’t realize that then you should really think about it. You make your own life so the people you hang out with and all the things you do make up you.
#348
I somewhat agree with what your saying, but I think some of these things are claimed to be true like kids feeling like they don't belong, and I bet we've all felt that, but I honestly don't think they would automatically want to commit suicide. It does happen though. It's hard feeling like you don't matter or you aren't someone and you don;t belong. Everyone belongs in their own way.
#348
hey 314 everyone matters but some people matter more than others like bill gates is way more important than anyone in this room.
#316
The decisions i make today will affect me in high school and beyond. They will affect me positively and negatively. It all just depends on the decisions I make. I know that for a fact that the decisions I will make in the future will help me more then ever. My past decisions affected me in the beginning of the middle school, but I rapidly overcame those choices and started to do better and succeed a lot more. I learned from the bad decisions I made, and after I did I was ready to take on more difficult things and change the for myself. I think of the questions who am I?, do I matter?, and do I belong? all the time. I think of them because in middle it is really hard to stay yourself or be you. Better yet, if you think about does anyone really know who there are? I think of those questions when I’m going through something hard, or if I just can’t handle something thats happened. I ask myself those questions when i need reassurance or when I need to get other things off my mind. The question that I think most teens ask themselves all the time is who am I? In the generation it is hard to know who you are and if you belong or if you matter. Just remember to have patience with life, don’t rush because you couldn’t live the answers. You will find who you are and if you matter and if you belong.
#348
I completely agree with this. A lot of people do make bad decisions because they don't feel like they are important. Everyone has a reason to feel important. Everyone should have a successful life, and everyone should feel like they belong.
#328
318
#344 You are right a lot of people do miss interpret what cool is and isn't
#338
Yes, I do believe the decisions we make today affect high school and beyond. If someone chooses to start smoking cigarettes, or drink or do drugs now, they could take those habits with them as they move up in life. The decisions we make now could be the most important choices we ever make. These questions do mean something to me. I think every one matters, and belongs to different things in their own way. For example, every group of friends generally has a common interest. You belong with the people who like doing things that you like to do. Everyone also has certain personality traits that just make them them, and different from everyone else. They might not notice how there different from everyone else, but no one is exactly the same.
#314
#332 I agree with you, we all are trying to figure out who we are, and who we want to be!
#344
Dear #332, I think you are so right about still trying to figure out who we are. And it is so important to make the right decisions as a teen but sometimes you want to fit in so you force yourself to make the wrong decisions.
332
Dear 328,
I liked what you said. I agree with it too. Great job!
#310
#314, I agree with you that every one matters, but I don't understand why you say being popular can affect you in high school. Couldn't a person be not so popular in middle school and then the meet a new group of people in high school and be popular or the other way around?
#332 I agree that as middle school students we are still figuring out who we are going to hang out with and what we are going to do in the future
#326
#314
I think you're totally right. Everyone does matter no matter what people say.
#342
Yes I do think the decisions I make right now in middle school will affect me in the near future. I think this because if you chose to do bad right now then when you get older these choices will follow you into your adulthood. Like for instance if you start doing drugs and drinking lots of alcohol now, then it will form as an addiction when you are older. If you are an addict and you try to get a job when you are older,no one is going to want to hire you. You wont be very reliable. Also you will lose everything and everyone you know. Or if you decide to start doing nasty things with your girlfriend or boyfriend. What will happen when you have a baby in the 10th or 11th grade? You might not even have a job and you are not going to be able to afford or take care of a baby. #304
#340
dear #314
I really agree with you, those programs will help you, but some people also think they don't matter just because they might not be the coolest people around. And yes, everyone does matter, and everyone has friends that love you even though sometimes they forget.
318
#308
Our friends do shape who we are it may be unintentional but it dose happen. Like a lot of kids try to do better in class and that makes their friends want to do better too. Or If one starts drugs or something bad you may want to stay friends with them so you may start too.
#320
from #316
I love how confident you! How you can reassure yourself that you are a fun smart person and such. =)
good job!
to:314
Some thing we do like as you said trio will help a lot
from:330
#348 I agree that after someone has been bulied the feel like they dont matter and they start to do bad things and I think that everyone does matter even if they been bullied by other people.
#326
I totally agree with you #344. Most bad decisions do follow you throughout the course of your life.#304
#330
I ask myself do the decisions I make today affect me in high school and beyond?
I know that my decisions I make now will affect me in high school and beyond. If I chose a path of drugs that will change my life forever and that would not be a very good life for me at all. But if I chose a path to do great in school and stay in school I could total change my life can and will be effected. I now I have to be a nerd and do good in school so I can have a life that I will never have got a chose a if I did not chose the right path.
#302
I do think that any decisions that I make today in middle school will affect me when I get into high school, college, and when I get my career started. When ever I think about the things I am doing I think ahead about how this will affect me in the future, like if I make straight A’s, then I will be placed in very advanced classes getting me into a top college, and it will be almost completely paid. If I do terrible in school I will probably drop out of school, and get little wage at a Wendy’s with a diction to beer. When I think about these questions of, Who am I, Do I matter, and Do I belong, I believe each question does mean something to me. These questions mean that who am I really in the world, am I a student at a middle school, or am I a popular kid in my community, or maybe a shy, helpful comforting friend. When you are asked if you matter I would think of, do people recognize me for me, and not a person that is just there, or maybe a person that they can use to get out of trouble, instead of a kid that people would like to be around. If you are thinking that do you belong ask your self this do people want you around, do they tell you everything, or maybe want you to help them with a problem.
306
To 308
I agree will what you had to say in your blog, you are trying to find your self now in life and making the right decisions with help with that.
332
Dear 310,
I agree with what you said to #314... Popularity shouldn't change wether or not you matter. Everyone matters, no matter how popular you are.
#344
I think you're right. But not only bad decisions follow you. If you do something good then that can follow you too. But I think you're right on when you said a lot of things can be misinterpreted.
#342
#346
The decisions I make today, as a middle school student, would not affect me by the time I get to high school. The reason I say this is because when I get to high school I am going to think differntly and make good better decisions then the ones I do today. Like maybe I did decisions that got me in trouble or things like that. And when you start being in high school you become mature and act like an adult instead of a teen. same when I get beyond high school and move on. The 3 questions, well they do matter to me. I think that they should matter to me because I think they will help me know who I might be as a high scool student and adult. I would also like to know if i do matter or who I am really going to be.
#312
I think the decisions I make in middle school will affect me in high school and beyond. I think it will affect me because the choices I make today will make me who I am in the future. Also because you change though out your life so the choices and decisions we make today will change in the future. The question “Who am I?” means, what is unique about you and what describes you the best that is my personal opinion. The question “Do I matter?” to me it means that you were meant to matter and you have people that care for you so of course you matter. The question “Do I belong?” means of course you belong because you were brought into this world to find a place where you feel safe and good. Theses questions do matter to me a lot in life.
#324
In my opinion decisions I make middle school can greatly affect my high school years. Middle school is the time that I decide what type of person I am. What type of people i hang out with or how i choose to present myself. All of the answers to the questions asked on Monday will affect me through my life. High school is the time I figure out what I want your career to be and how I want my future to come out. Yes, the three questions do matter to me and often times I do ask myself the three questions and have to remind myself of the answers. To me the answers to the three questions will help to develop my future.
#316
hey #348
everyone is important! no matter what your title is(Bill Gates)
Everyone is a person no one is better or more important. We all are the same and should be treated equally.
#314
#310 yes they can but every ones popular with there own group of friends. It's really hard to explain what I ment by that.
to # 344
I think that you are right when you say t decisions we make now will follow you in the years to come.
From; #306
#348
I feel that when you said Bill Gates is way more important in this room is quite untrue. Everyone is equally important. Bill Gates may be very important, but we're people too, and we all have a purpose in life, and it's not just to see who's famous or who's not. Maybe some of us haven't found our purpose in life yet, and that's okay.
#320
Hey #348 I don't really agree with you about some people being more important than others because I think we were all created the same in the sense of being human beings and being important. #304
to: 316
ya you are right you have a path a good one and a bad one
from:330
318
I agree with #310 popularity doesn't effect us in high school because those things change what isn't going to change is what you enjoy doing and who you enjoy spending your time with. No matter what the things that make you smile are now they are still going to make you smile in 20 years.
#314
#316 your right i agree with you! Great job!
336
To 348, I disagree with you. I think everyone matters and it may seem some people are more important than others but one of us may grow up and be just like Bill Gates, you never know.
348, everyone matters, just because Bill Gates has money doesn't make him more important.
#338
332
Dear 348,
Who cares how popular Bill Gates is? Everyone in this room matters...
328, I completely agree. Many of us just think we know everything there is to know about ourselves and our lives when we really dont.
#338
328, I completely agree. Many of us just think we know everything there is to know about ourselves and our lives when we really dont.
#338
#322
I agree with you. Everyone matters, you never meet people that don't have someone who really cares about them. Its really sad though, because everyone cares what people think too much. A lot of people make decisions based on what other people think.
#328
#348 Just because you are one of the richest people in the world does not mean that your better then everyone else.
#326
Dear #324
I agree with you because the decisions you make and how you present your self will make who you are in the future. I also ask those three questions to myself too. #312
to: #344
I have to agree with what you said about decisions following us. Also, I agree with what you said about people confusing the rite choice for wrong and wrong choice for rite. :) #324
to: #344
I have to agree with what you said about decisions following us. Also, I agree with what you said about people confusing the rite choice for wrong and wrong choice for rite. :) #324
318
#304 is correct we need to be smart about our desisios we are not the only people affected. Sometimes it could be a kid.
#348
you know 316 you are completely wrong how would you treat the singer to your favorite band compaired to your sibling.
923 These questions do mean something to me. So yes what you do now in middle school dose affect you in high school. Such as grades you get bad grades now you can be in a class that is doubled or after school or before school. The person you are now can change form middle school to high school. The people that you hang out with now can be different in high school. The people that you think care about now may change or stay caring about you. You may think you belong now but wait until high school. You will think school is so complicated and you might fell that you don’t know no body.
to: #324
I think you are so right about figuring out who we are in middle school because you really don't find out your true friends and whether you belong or whether you matter until you reach the end or close to the end of high school.
#344
318
Well said 923 it is true that those little decisions do change who we are.
hey #338
I agree with you. If someone chooses to start smoking or do drugs now they are most likely going to bring those habits with them in the future. Good job! ;-)
Dear #340,
I think you are right with the whole regret/habit thing. Most kids do things they know they will regret just to fit in and it ends up following them and most likely ruining their lives. Like say a kid drank. He/She knows that eventually they will be so stressed they will want a drink and then it becomes an addiction problem.
#344
#310
Dear #312 I agree with you that the question "Who am I" does describe you the best if you answer it truly.
#330 Thank you for the comment! good job by the way! keep it up! ;-)
from: #316
#322
Dear #328
Your exactly right. A lot of people do think too much about what they think about them. So they do things so they will fit in with them.
dear #344
Thank you for agreeing with me, I know most kids will end up doing something they regret and it might be because they're friends are doing it or something, and its usually not a good idea even though it might seem like it at the time.\
#340
#324, your right. Right now is when we start deciding who we are.
#338
#308
i totally agree with you #344! Bad and good decisions will follow you for awhile.
blog#204
The biggest problems teens face today is how to avoid getting involved with people that do drugs. The reason I think this is a problem is that when people get involved with others that do drugs they may try to make them quit. When they try to stop other people they may find themselves doing the drugs too. The way to solve this problem is to never get involved with these people and think you can change them. The only way you can get them to stop is to leave them alone and let their parents find out. Although this may take a while. But its worth the wait in the end. Its better than getting involved with drugs yourself.
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