dbeavers003 (2022-2023)

Well let's see, I work 32 hours a week and attend college, so I really do not have much free time. I do like missionary work, I have been to Mexico and Honduras, helping others. I love to spend time with my family, especially my papa. I like to hunt, fish, play sports, ride horses, and work in in the garden.

William Jefferson Clinton once stated, If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit." That is pretty much how I look at life. I was raised in a small town with maybe 400 residents. My hometown is so small that if you are driving through and blink you will miss it. In my hometown, if you are a boy, there are 3 places you end up after high school: the logging woods, the saw mill, or the oil field. Throughout life a person will encounter many adversities. I am still a young man, but I have experienced many hardships. When I was 15 years old, I basically lived in the doctors office. Through endless medical examinations, I was diagnosed with Lupus, an autoimmune disease in which a persons body is continuously fighting itself. I was told that I would never live a normal life and that my body could not withstand that kind of strain. I can remember walking out of the doctors office and telling my mother that I refused to just lay down and watch the world pass me by. It was a struggle at first to learn to cope with my illness and still live a normal life. I continued to play high school basketball, and I was named All-State my last 3 years of high school. It was a constant struggle managing the fatigue, weakness, and body ailments. My senior year of high school, at one of my doctor checkups, the doctors discovered that I had tumors of the lungs. At first they said the tumors were cancerous, but after spending a week in the Childrens Hospital in New Orleans, the doctors discovered that it was granulomas, which are not cancerous. It was that week in the Childrens Hospital that I decided that I was going to make something out of my life. I not only decided to make something out of my life, but I wanted to help make a difference in the world. My real passion is politics. I know applying for law school is a number game but like Mike Huckabee said, I did not major in math, I majored in miracles. That is how I look at my life: one big miracle. Just remeber ingenuity, plus courage, plus work, equals miracles.