Blog Post #2

 My Life Story

Happy Sunday! Hope everyone's having an amazing day so far. In this week's post I am going to talk about my life story. Let me start off by introducing myself and giving you a chance to get to know me better. Hi, my name is Keerthana Sivakumar. I am 15 years old and I am a sophomore. If I've never formally met you before, nice to meet you. 

I think the best place to start this story is the very beginning, so let's take it back to April 1st 2007. Yes, I was born on April Fool's day. It's kinda funny sometimes because when I tell people it's my birthday they think i'm joking. I was born in Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital. I have lived here my entire life and one thing I still haven't gotten used to is the Texas weather, sometimes it can be so incredibly unpredictable. Most of my childhood I would describe myself as extremely picky from what my parents have told me. I would never leave my mother's arms and if I did it would't be without a fight. I grew up with a lot of love from my parents and so many great memories. Lego Land is one of the most prominent vacation spots I remember my parents would take me every year. I started walking really early around 7 months. I think being ambitious is one of the qualities that i've had since a young age. I loved watching movies with my family from a young age too, in theaters I would never cry, which is the complete opposite of my younger brother who hated going to the movie theater.

Speaking of my younger brother, one of my biggest milestones was the transition from being an only child to an older sibling. My brother was born when I was six years old, and even though I really wanted a sister, from the moment my brother was born I fell in love with him. He became my best friend and he still is to this day. He is my favorite person in the entire world and the one who understands me the most. A lot people have rocky relationships with their sibling and they fight a lot, but my brother and I are the complete opposite. I couldn't ask for a better friend, partner in crime and sibling.

This pretty much sums up my life so far. As for my future I really don't have an idea of what I want to do. I enjoy math, so after graduation I see myself in a career related to math. My graduating year is 2025, so I still have 2 years of high school left and I am only half way through. 2 years move pretty fast though, because it feels like it was a couple of days ago we were coming out of quarantine and it was my first day of high school. One thing I am sure about my future is my relationship with my friends I have made in high school and my family. These are relationships I know will be strong throughout my life and I'm so grateful for them. As far as college, until now I have wanted to go out of state but the closer I get to deciding the more I am leaning towards staying in state maybe UT Austin or Rice.

Marriage is definitely not in the near future, after college yes, but not anytime soon. As for who, when and where, I draw blanks to all of those questions. Once I find the answer to who, then i'm sure the when and where will be answered easily. I definitely want kids, preferable 2-3 and definitely at-least one boy and a girl, but who knows what the future has in store for me. As for names I don't have an idea yet, but I am sure when I get to that stage in my life I would have had enough time to think about it. 

I can see myself as an accountant but I still have some time to think about it. My main goal is to successfully provide for myself as i'm sure is everyone else's. I would like to find a job that makes me happy and create a great work life balance so I can spend time with my future family. I am not sure when I would retire, because I enjoy having something to do and retirement life might be too boring for me. If I had to guess I would say i'll retire around 65 and hopefully die a natural death but obviously I can't plan that. Overall as for right now, my future has no definite plan but i'll probably figure out at-least some of it soon.