Emily+Hoke

Youthful
Emily means hardworking in the English language and all though that is a good description of me—sometimes—I believe there are better words that would do the job better. When I made the acronym for my name, I chose words that I thought would best describe me and, though we were allowed to use our last names too, I thought that the five words I pick really sum up who I am. Eccentric works because I am a strange person, but it keeps people alive and alert and my personality is always leaving people wondering what I am going to do next. People have said that I am one of a kind in what I do and I believe that is true. I don’t like to follow what my friends say just because they say it. I have my own thoughts and after I let my friends control my thoughts as a teenager, I have grown to realize that I live my own life and I was put here for me, not to be someone else’s little puppet and that is why I think I can be so strange and out there, because I do what I feel comfortable with and that is, well, a lot of things! Marvelous means astonishing or wonderful and I think that most people are marvelous in their own way. Everyone was put on this planet with a special talent and gift and when they show those, is astonishes people. My gift, I believe, is my gift to talk to anyone and just keep my calm and be his or her friend. I get my moods where I don’t want to be around people, but I was blessed with this special talent of not letting anyone (that I don’t want to have) see it. I think that is marvelous because most people can’t do that, when they are in a bad mood, most people can read it because they can’t hide it, but if I don’t want anyone to know, they never will. Intelligent is another good one. I have never been one for school and I can’t stand being locked up in a lecture listening to people speak about things that don’t really pertain to me. I love to learn, though, but I love to learn about things that matter in the world and that can enlighten me in life. I know random facts that most people find interesting and others find useless. I am intelligent in the sense that I understand the world and how to deal with people. Nature inspires me and it can teach a person, I believe. I’m not saying that I’m Whitman, but I do believe that if one spends enough time with nature they can learn a lot about themselves and the world. Late is probably the best description for me because I am almost never on time. Even when I am on time, I am still late. People always like when people show up to things early and they consider that on time. When things start at 2:30, I like to be that person who shows up at 2:30 or a minute after. I don’t know how I got that way because I always used to be early for things. I think it is because as a teenager I let my peers get the best of me and I felt strange being the first person to things and having to make awkward, mindless conversations with the adults running whatever event I was there for. If it is something important that I need to be it, it is amazing and how great I am at turning that late factor off, and going back to my old ways and showing up way too early. Besides that, though, I am the person who has to be told, “It starts at 2:15” when it really is 2:30, so that maybe I will actually be there by the time it starts. Youthful is my favorite description of me. When I was in Florida this past month, a couple had a sign outside of their house that said, “Growing old is mandatory, Growing up is an option.” I love that saying, because all of our bodies will grow old, but what is the point of growing with it. We should all stay attached to our youth because it keeps a sense of fun in our life. Going to work acting like a two-year-old isn’t going to work for me, but when I go home who cares how I act. My favorite movie is still //Cars,// I love my cartoons still, and playing in the snow is still the highlight of my winter. Those are things that as I get older I can still hold on to. I hope that when I have children of my own, I can be the mature mother that they need to grow successfully with, but at the same time I hope I still have my youth that I have worked so hard to keep, so that I can understand them better as they grow and so that when we play games I will be just as entertained as they are.