Journal Two: From Paul Winters

     I'm Paul Winters, 21, From Delaware, Ohio. I have grown up hunting and being outside a lot, school has always been switch up to being more inside than outside. A month after graduating high school, I was in a vehicle with some friends going to the Alum Creek beach for one of their birthday's. It was really the first time I ever let someone drive me, as I was always so paranoid. We ended up loosing control and flipping three times. I remember all time paused and I saw my entire life flash before my eyes. From that day on it really made think life is not owed to us. And everyday even without an event like that is a gift and a complete miracle. It is not that we have to get up, or we have to go to school. It is that we get to go to school and we get to life a life worth talking about. That in itself is a blessing to always be grateful for.


     The thing that has stood out to me in our readings that has helped me the most is "People learn to write by writing" Pg. 3

While this seems so basic, and I knew it when it came to other areas of writing. Specifically poetry I thought I would not be able to write. It seemed more just like a gift, you either have it or you don't have it and I felt I didn't have it.

It is important to kick out our self limiting beliefs and know if we are going to be good at something we are going to have to work at it. To work at it means to actually do it, without being hard on ourselves or trying to come up with a false narrative as to why we can't do what we want to do. These are lies that will just make us sick.

July 2014 This is the scene of thee wreckage after the crash. 

This is my friend Josh and me out fishing. Josh is in the Marines and has a special place in my heart not only as a dear friend but as a service member.