My Krazy Life
Yoni? Or Jonah? Whatever you want
Myself...
Hey, Jonah!
How are things going? I hope you still like superheroes and I hope that the backyard looks pretty. Don't forget how important it was to you and Abba! He told me that they will grow as fast as me, but I think I can beat them!
Love, killa.
Alcatraz
My aunts lived in San Francisco, so when we visited them, although I didn't get to go onto Alcatraz, I saw it. They bought me a bear, so I cherished it.
Familia
I'm the baby, chilling with my brother and two sisters. They have always been there to help me through life, so they deserve a spot here.
Chabad
That's me in the top right. I used to go to a religious school for elementary. Some of these kids are still my friends today.
Wii
When the Wii came out in late 2006, early 2007, my parents saved up enough money for my brother and I to go buy one. I still have that one to this day.
Stuffed Animals
I used to take old stuffed animals from my sisters, because they kept away nightmares that I frequently had. I used to bring them to school so that girls would talk to me because they liked them.
Fireworks
My birthday is July 5, so I grew up being told that the fireworks I saw were all for me! I have always loved fireworks and still play with them to this day.
Rite of Passage
Normal rites of passage would be a Bar Mitzvah, or getting their first car. Mine was so much better. When I was younger, I was very skinny because everything I ate gave me excruciating pain in my stomach. The doctors never found anything, and still I have pains, but I eventually figured out what I can eat. I was able to eat bread and only bread. Therefore, I ate an extraordinary amount and gained an obscene amount of weight. As sad as it is, I maintained this for a few years. After my Bar Mitzvah, my brother dragged me to the gym and told me of his adventures with girls, and how if I work out, I can have those same experiences. Once I heard such stories, I was devoted. I lost 50 pounds and gained many more of muscle. This was my rite of passage, as I was a completely different person now than I was 5 years ago.
Fishing in Alaska
As you can see, I was overweight, yet enjoying life nonetheless. This mindset carried me through dark times, which I look up to still.
Bar Mitzvah
Still overweight, but not for long! I enjoyed doing my Bar Mitzvah because I learned to speak in front of crowds openly and vulnerably. Studying for that moment were the most obnoxious days of my life.
Coming back from camp
When I went to camp going into freshman year, I lost about 15 pounds and worked out every day there. As absurd as this photo is, my sisters wanted to show me the progress I had made. This is about a year from the pictures above.
Pursuit Of Happiness (nightmare) (Album Version (Explicit)) by Cudderland
If by Yoni Gavish
If
This poem speaks about how life isn't right, yet we need to learn to love and accept that. It speaks of how great life would be if the past was present, and the false was true. But that is not how life is, and I have learned to appreciate that recently. We can't get everything we want in life, but we can get pretty damn close.
Perceptions
I saw a consistent theme of "nice shoes," and "sauve." I loved hearing those things, they definitely put a smile on my face. When I got home and opened the envelope, I saw a ton of papers. I read through all of them, realizing that many members of my family also wrote their perceptions and nice things about me. I discovered that my mom took it upon herself to reach out to everyone in the family and ask them to write those nice things. Therefore they are all on my vision board.
Hey Big Guy
What's up, little man? It's me, Yoni. You didn't need to choose a name for yourself because you can be happy with both that you have. Life most definitely gets better, and you become even smarter! Don't be scared about growing up, because it's amazing, but cherish every moment.