I hate to write and I don’t really know what to write about, so I have decided to write about why I hate writing.  I hate writing for multiple reasons; it bores me, I can't ever stay on topic, and I never know what all to write about. 
As you can see from class discussions and school in general, I always have plenty to say.  My problem is that I don’t know how to put it on paper, to find the right words to express my point. Honestly, I wish we would have been given a topic to write about. This assignment would be 100 times easier if we had a specific topic because I can't seem to narrow down a topic to write about. How am I supposed to write about just one topic when my brain is always full of multiple thoughts?   I do better when our assignments are specific.  I am good at researching; but not so much at brainstorming or being creative on paper.
There is plenty of things to write about; but frankly, most of them bore me after about 30 seconds.  I have a real hard time controlling my thoughts; and this assignment gives my brain permission to go all over the place.  For example, right now I should be thinking about this assignment and what I should write about; but all I can think about is basketball, track, school, college and other things that I don’t really think you want to hear about.  So here is how my brain is working.  What can I do to be better at basketball?  What could I do to be more like Michael Jordan?  Sorry, I had to take a break to ask my dad about this paper.  Then he and I started to talk about something else and then I realized I really need to focus because, at this rate, my paper is never going to get done.  Back to my thoughts on basketball.  How long did it take Michael Jordan to be who he is today?  To answer these questions, I did some research on what Michael Jordan did to get him to where he is.  I found that “Michael Jordan believed that he would get out of the game exactly what he put into it.”  I found this information at www.incomediary.com/how-to-be-like-mike-20-life-lessons-from-michael-jordan.  Which makes me start to wonder what he meant by that?  Is he meaning just practice because I practice an awful lot.  So now my mind starts to think about basketball practice.  When will we start having open gym at school?  Will we have open gym this summer?  I am pretty nervous for next year's basketball season because we have a whole new coaching staff.  The staff from this school year all decided to bail on us. So now we will have coaches that do not know us. We will all have to start from scratch.  Which, I guess, could be a good thing because everyone gets a fresh start.  I am kind of worried for some my fellow teammates.  Some kids, at least I believe, only made the team because they had a close bond with the coaches.  I think that I will be fine.  I believe that I will push myself hard and do what it takes to where I could potentially make varsity my sophomore year. That would be a huge accomplishment for me.  I really want to be successful in school and athletics.  Like right now, I'm pretty focused on track.  Our SVC meet is coming up and I'm kind of nervous because I have an opportunity to do really well;  and I have to do really well because we don't have very many kids on the team.  I'm only a freshman, so it kind of puts a lot of weight on my shoulders and could open doors for my future. Some people may think that I don't really care about track; but it's just that I care about school work more because in reality, school gets you places. Which that brings up another topic, my parents thought it would be a good idea to put me in college courses next year. That kind of scares me because I had trouble thinking about what to write for this paper. What am I going to do for college courses?  Will I be able to do work that is even more challenging than the classes I'm taking now?  My parents keep assuring me that I'll be fine; but I don't know, we will have to see about that. I guess, when I really think about it all, I know I am a hard enough worker to be successful at whatever I am doing.   I believe if I really put my mind to it, I'll be fine; but there's always going to be a part of me that's kind of nervous.  But nervous can be good, right?  Challenging myself will only make me better, right? 
So I gave you an example of just a few of the things that are occupying my brain right now.  Just an example of why picking a topic is so hard for someone like me.  I know it seems like I'm all over the place;  but I just wrote about some of the things on my mind and my mind is always all over the place. This assignment was to write a 700 word essay and I definitely succeeded in doing that.  As for the title, I guess it makes sense to call it “Just Some Things That are on My Mind”.