The skills I have been able to develope since joining the National Honor Society are skills that I will will use for the rest of my life. Before joining the National Honor Society I was a typically high school student who really did not care about anything around him. Since joining the NHS I have grown a new appreciation for everything around me. I have grown as a leader and a person and I have learned to have a new outlook on life. When it comes to leadership, there is one thing that I am very proud of. As a senior team captain and unquestioned leader I had a massive task on my hands this year. Coming off of a winless season the football team was lacking commitment and and there were many questions about how the teams was going to bounce …show more content…
Since joining the NHS I have developed a great appreciation for everything going on around me. From holding the door for someone or simply greeting other in the hallways, I believe that the NHS has helped me develop a open and giving personality that has a positive impact on everyone I come into contact with. There are many things that come to mind when I think of how my character has changed, but there is a certain one that really sticks out. That example is this year when the NHS was serving cookies for Valentine’s Day and we had a bunch of leftover cookies. I asked Mr. Spears what we were going to do with the leftover cookies and he thought we could just hand them out during lunch. The old me would have loved this idea because I would have got more cookies, but with my newly developed character I thought it would be a good idea to give the cookies away to others and that is what we did. Me and another member of the NHS ended up bringing the leftover cookies to Fieldcrest Assisted Living for the old folks to have and they could not have been more happy. The NHS is a fantastic organization that has taught me some great life traits. There is no doubt the the things I have learned through the National Honor Society are skills that I will use for the rest of my life. The NHS has given me a whole new outlook of life and I could not be more