Megan’s Credo

Megan Duret–Holdingford High School

I believe in passion.

I believe in the undying and irrevocable love for something that consumes your  your whole being. I have faith in the idea everyone has something worth dying for, and more importantly, worth living for.  I believe without this passion for something–anything–life is utterly unlivable. Everyone needs something to need. Something that exudes through your veins, and flows from a place deep within; something that blossoms from the abyss within the soul and travels every inch of your being to make you feel alive. Whether it travels to your fingertips to stroke the strings of a guitar or to your lips to speak the words to live by, passion is perpetual bliss. Passion is the thirst for more, more of what you love. An aching and a lust from deep within that every living soul that has ever allowed itself to live has found is essential to happiness–more importantly to life. I believe in this with an absolute certainty; there is nothing more desirable than having something to desire. And I vow to live each day seeking this great passion, until the earth-shattering, pivotal moment in which I find what I am looking for.

Personal Creed

Matt Maciej–Holdingford High School 

To be or not to be

There is no question

One must be

And can only be once

This is a singular occasion,

A life, as it has been labeled,

Will be spent poorly by many

And spent properly be few

We only have this one chance to

Make a difference

Make ourselves heard

A single change to matter in this world

Whether in riches and prosperity

Or hardship and poverty

We are all supplied

With body and mind

With the means to matter

We have an ability

A responsibility

Not to merely be

But to live

Personal Credo

Nathan Maciej-Holdingford High School

I believe that I will prevail. I know there is no easy trail, but I won’t whine, moan, or wail, until I find my Holy Grail. This I believe. I believe that I am champion, winner of all. And if I fall I will not crawl. I will stand tall — not small. Oh yes, I have the gaul to win it all. This I believe. I believe in me, myself, and I. I look Life straight up in the eye. Yes, Life, he’s one fell of a guy, and sometimes he’ll make me want to cry, but I will try — I will try until I die. This I believe. I believe that I wn’t quit. I must admit that I’ve got the grit to avoid the urge sit and submit. Instead I spit, and get on with it. This I believe. I believe that I will hack and cleave until I reach what I achieve. All of this I do perceive, and for all of this I will grieve. This I believe. Yes, indeed I know I’ll heed all of which that I have keyed. For this is my humble creed, and I always know that I’ll succeed. This I believe.

Neato Creedo

Logan Smith–Holdingford High School

Life, I believe, is best approached from an improvisational attitude; not quite to the extent of a completely lackadaisical existence, for that entails a lack of passion, something key to bringing out the utmost in anything. But worry is most certainly a crutch we can all do without, and dancing with the flow of things is, in my humble opinion, the best way to acquiesce life’s currents without bowing to it, perhaps to the extent of reshaping the river in the process. Change is all we may expect anyway.

Personal Creedo

I believe in Smiling at the Person Who Just Flipped Me Off

Emily Wolter–Holdingford High School

Stranger: A person I don’t know. As much as I like to think I know a lot fo people and what is happening in the lives, the truth is I know an extremely miniscule amount of people. Everyone else? They are just strangers. There is now way for me to now what is happening in a completely random person’s life. I don’t know how awful their day, week, life has been and it’s not my place to now. But it is for this reason that I believe in smiling and saying, “It’s alright” when someone runs into me. Everyone has had a bad day and acted out towards an unsuspecting innocent stranger and then felt bad later. They were not the focus of anger, yet they received the heat. It happens and it’s not personal. Because I don’t know their story and ahve no right to judge their attitude, I believe in being a positive encounter for the angry, upset, unfocused, strangers I meet. I believe in brushing it off with a smile when someone is rude because I have no idea what awful thing happened to put them into a foul mood leaving me on the receiving end of their aggression. I believe in just letting it go. I believe in smiling at the person who just flipped me off.