Hank Thompson, Age 13, Marin County, California.
When the Giants won Super Bowl XLVI. That was an influential moment in my life. After that I became a huge football fan because my dad is a football fan and he is one of my role models. When the Giants won, I sort of adopted that from him and because of that I have become a huge football player, football fan, and made a lot awesome friends from it. It has really changed the course of my life and who I am, which is a pretty cool thing.
Getting a good grade on something important makes me happy. But what really makes me happy is doing something good for someone else. If I can help someone with a project or share some of my food with someone or something little like that. It makes me really happy that I helped someone else. Even if it is not going to dramatically change the course of anyone’s life it just makes me feel good to help people.
Being a teenager is going to be different for everybody. It’s not really about being a teenager, it is sort of who you are and how you chose to approach your life. Personally for me it is trying to be liked from the general crowd. It doesn’t really get to me, I don’t care about it that much. If you can give yourself a good name around your school or your neighborhood, that is a good. For some people it is better to be friends with them or talk to them, but some people you’ll be liked by staying out of their way. Lots of people are different and the way you approach these things are different for everyone.
I believe in Jesus Christ, the Christian God. I pray regularly to him about a whole bunch of different things, like my own problems, world problems, good things that have gone well for me, and also for others. It really gives me support in bad times and helps me throughout my life, which is a good thing.
My dad is the person I respect the most. He helps me when I am down, guides me through my life and gives me support in everything I want to do and try, which is pretty cool. Besides my stuff, my dad is just a cool person to hang out with. We have so many awesome experiences together. There’s just no one else like him.
I want to be someone involved with the N.F.L. It sounds kind of silly but I love to play football and I want to be able to play in the N.F.L. Even though I want to, I realize that it is a long stretch to make an N.F.L roster. Only two thousand people out of the whole world are on those rosters. It would also be cool being in the N.F.L front office, assistant coach, or doing something in the N.F.L. That’s what I would want to do with my life.
Hank Thompson