The Strange Chicago Blog

My goal for this new year took a lot of thinking but I think if I had to pick something it would be for me to be and think more positively. I chose this as my new year intention because I think that if I develop more positivity in my life I will be much happier and be less stressed with everything. Another great reason I want to be more positive this coming year is to perservere through things that might push me down like high schools, sports teams, and test scores. Though if I stay and think more positive with these things then I know that my positivity will help support me through these hard times this year. Overall my goal for 2017 is to stay positive so that I can learn to accept anything that comes my way and to learn how to deal with things yet still stay positive in the end.

Imagine being a middle school student walking into the school minding your own business. Looking for your friends you suddenly seeing a little boy or girl alone with no friends and no type of social contact with scars, scratches, and bruises right there on their bodies. Very noticeable and very uneasy to look at you're too afraid to ask them what happened. You don't want to be rude either but it's just so noticeable and everyone is too afraid to do anything about it. So you let it go, then you find out 10 years later on the news that that same kid who was all alone and beat up just killed someone and you did nothing. Neglect is a very big issue and it only leads to very horrible outcomes in the world. Though, there is not just one type of neglect, in fact, there are several that can cause awful outcomes throughout a neglected child's life. Neglect can also cause many long term health and mental issues that may lead to crimes being committed when someone who is being n...

As I recall my favorite Christmas gift was so cliché  and hilarious that everytime it comes to mind, I laugh. I remember that this specific gift was something all my friends had and something I really wanted. This gift happened to be a Barbie head that you can apply makeup to. It is now funny to think that at the time I would retell and retell my dad about how much this would benefit me and how much I really needed this. All in all my favorite Christmas gift I remember receiving was a makeup Barbie head!

For homework I had to do some reasearch on my name and as I did I found out a lot I didn't know. To start off I should say that my name isn't really Yazmin, in fact, my real name is Tatiana. My real name was given to me by my mother, but growing up I decided I really didn't want anything to do with my mother. So, because my father came up with my middle name Yazmin I decided that instead of Tatiana, Yazmin should be my legal name. Though, all that aside, my name is Arabic and it means Jasmine flower.

This quote has been my absolute favorite for a couple of years now because I really think that it sort of explains the different things I had to face when I was younger. For example while growing up I would always fight with my mom and she was always so negative and I felt that she would want other people to be negative as well but I always felt that her doing that was wrong of her. So, because of her always wanting to feed off of people being miserable I sort of had to leave her behind and live without her because I felt that I didn't need to be misreable just because she was. Overall I really love this quote because of the way it describes my childhood and how I was able to persevere and get out of my situation.