My Credo…I am sending this with my college apps..please tell me what you think?
During the summer I had my first job as pool monitor-all the perks of being a lifeguard without the stress. I spent hours upon hours watching an often empty pool, telling kids not to run, and checking the Ph and chlorine of the crystal water. Sometimes it was more boring than other times. Sometimes neighborhood friends would visit me, and we would shoot the breeze at the table beside the pool under a huge forest green umbrella. Other days, when it was just me and my old friend, the iPod, I would lay in the lounge chair in my Billabong bikini to catch as many rays as I could, dreaming of how cool it would be to put my new life-guarding certification skills to the test. But, it wasn’t until the end of the sweet summer that I realized that I had learned many valuable lessons. Everything I need to know about life, I would learn at the pool. Knowledge necessary to live a happy life had been floating around in the chlorinated water, among Wrought iron occasional tables the occasional June bug, all summer long. Although, it wasn’t until school had started and my job had faded with the summer that I found it there, long after the “Pool Closed, No Trespassing” signs were hung on the wrought-iron gates.Chlorine stinks but the checks smell sweet.Time is important.Change is inevitable.Labels are unnecessaryFriends can be found in unlikely places.Negligence is not worth it. It can’t be sunny all the time.After the rain, there is often a rainbow.Shooting stars happen most of the time.Chlorine stinks, but I still had to use it everyday to get the job done. Yes, it burned my eyes. Yes, it made me cry, but at the end of the day, it prevented fifty people from getting ear infections…or something much worse. Sometimes what seems like a pain always works out for the best.It seems that almost as soon as the summer had begun, it started to fade. As the seasons changed, my surroundings did as well. Older friends moved away to college, beginning whole different lives that I was not included in, but recognizing that labels are unnecessary allowed me to befriend many others. People who I otherwise would not have spoken so much to, I became close with, and now we share many fond memories together of the summer, in the sunshine and in the rain.But the thing that we must never forget is that shooting stars happen all the time. People just never take the time to look up to the heavens and notice. They are so busy with their deadlines and jobs, getting so stressed out and depressed, that they fail to see all of the miraculous things that God had put into their lives. Maybe if they did, they wouldn’t have to read about another suicide or school shooting in the morning paper while they take their anti-anxiety pills. Maybe, just maybe, if people stopped to look to the heavens and notice just how many shooting stars there actually are, everyone would be a little bit happier, and maybe we would know that even though life seems overwhelming and stressful sometimes, everything is going to be okay.
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