A minor character that has played a pivotal role in my life

This is hard, because most people that have pivotally changed my life are major figures. But my mind goes to one person in particular, which is my brother. I suppose he would count as a minor character in my life because I never knew him. He died in a car crash before I was born. To make a long story short, because of his death, I'm alive, and that simple fact drives me past failure. Because of that fact, I'm not willing to be just anybody, and I'm not going to live my life like I don't have a purpose on this earth, because I do. Because of that fact, when I see him in heaven, I want him to look back on my life and be proud.

What I Know Now That I Didn't Know Then

The list could be endless. throughout the past recent years, I have learned so much. Things that make me want to go back and time with my current knowledge and approach things differently. One of the biggest things I know now more then ever is that God is all I need. He provides, he comforts, he loves, he's real, and he's a friend as well as heavenly father. As far as life goes, I know now that if you want something, you have to be aggressive. You have to seize opportunities and not let the moment pass, it might never come back.

Future Wife

1.) She's gotta be a Christian, and a real one at that.

2.) I've got to be able to be myself around this girl and not feel any pressure at all to be someone I'm not to impress her. In other words, she needs to love me for being me.

3.) She has to have an appreciation for baseball and be willing to watch/get into games with me

4.) Cooking! she has to be able to cook up a mean meal. I honestly don't think I could handle having a wife that sucks at cooking. My mom has spoiled me on amazing home made food so thats just how it is.

5.) She needs to be socially comfortable and good with people around her.

6.) She needs to look nothing short of gorgeous in my eyes.

7.) She needs to be selfless, and put other people first, caring for people.

8.) She needs to be able to make things interesting. Heaven forbid I end up with a wife thats purely boring and unable to spice things up every once in a while. She justs needs to be able to keep things interesting.

9.) She needs to be sweet.

10.) She needs to be my best friend

Stuff about me

I am Seth
I am 6'3"
I like sports
Particularly baseball
I have a few best friends
I play guitar
I love to snowboard
Never Back Down is a really cool movie
I want to go to Hawaii
I have 2 brothers and 2 sisters as well as one that's passed away
2 of my brothers and 1 of my sisters are adopted
my youngest sibling is 4 and my oldest is 28
I do crazy flips off boat houses
I play Xbox... particularly Call of Duty
Lost energy drinks are awesome
I want to go to college somewhere although I don't know where
I have a crazy dog
and a fat lazy cat
my mom is the best cook in the world
The last book I read was Beyond Belief: Story of Josh Hamilton
favorite MLB players are Albert Pujols and Josh Hamilton
I can hardly whistle
I just learned how to blow up a balloon 2 summers ago
I've been to 11 different major league ball parks
I will see them all before I die
I can have fun without breaking any boundaries
I'm most certainly not a morning person
Lauren Murray is the best

Obstacles

I'd have to say I've lived a relatively safe and blessed life. But there have been plenty of rough spots that I’m proud to have smoothed out. The one big obstacle that I’m probably most proud of is keeping my faith throughout high school and my life up to now. I’m proud to have gotten where I am athletically. I’m proud that I was able to hop out of my bubble during my high school years and try new things. I’m proud to have overcome my stage fright, to an extent. I’m proud to have survived 17 years on this earth. I’m proud of all the different skills I’ve acquired by putting the time and hard work in. One particular athletic obstacle I’ve worked hard to get through is my speed. Excessive amounts of sweat poured from my body and my lungs screamed for mercy this summer as I was working to get faster, which I did. I knocked .3 seconds off my 60 time. I’m proud to have almost gotten through high school and being a college bound student.

Boarding

My 4th season of snowboarding is quickly approaching. I started my 8^th grade year and I was just as soon addicted. some of my friends and I took advantage of Beech Mountain’s deal where all males got in free on Thursday, and we went most every week. I was home schooled at the time so missing school wasn’t a problem. That is about the only thing I miss about home school. The next year I wasn’t able to go as much because that’s when I started high school, but I was still addicted. My sophomore winter I got my own board finally and started doing jumps and tricks. My junior winter I was only able to go 4 times! I was very upset about that. But now the winter is returning and the slopes are calling my name. I just bought some new bindings for my board and I’m ready to go. I’m going to go as much as I can this year.

Fighting With my Parents

I think me and parents get along quite nicely for the most part. We have a good relationship, but there most definitely has been some rough spots along the way. Most of the time, when we argue, It's about something that they don't think I can handle, and, well, I think otherwise. My parents have loosened up a lot on my limitations as I've gained trust but they used to be little up-tight. Some examples of these clashes would relate to movies I could and couldn't see. See, they have this website that spells out in detail every single bad thing in a movie. I can't tell you how many times we've got into heated debates about a movie, that I knew really wasn't that bad, because they looked on this website that made it sound like I was wanting to go watch some rated x flick. When the movie transformers first came out, they wouldn't even let me watch that! That's probably where our biggest movie fights took place. I told them I knew 6 year olds that went to see that movie. Anyway, that's just one instance out of many. Now days they pretty much let me use my own discretion, which is nice. And I do know they only had the best in mind. They just went a little overboard sometimes. But who can blame them, I know it's tough to be a parent and in their defence some of the movies they didn't let me watch really weren't good for me to be watching.