Okay, so hey!

Okay, I know I haven't actually posted anything besides formspring posts in like, the last eon, so I'm gonna introduce myself again, right now. I'm going to start posting a lot more frequently than I was before. I actually have a life now, so this will be easy. Posts will range from poetry, to short story ideas, to ideologies I have in mind, to what happened in my day, to random babbling that may make me sound like a drug addict because of its nonsense. Everything is a surprise on thelifeonanisaac!

So, my name is Isaac Thomas McClure. I hate my first name. It's Aramaic, and it may look familiar, and that's 'cause it's from the first book of the Bible. Yeah, my father tries to kill, in the first section of the most famous book in the world. Great. It's so ugly, and harsh. I do like that it means "Cheerful faith," however. I have a wooden sign on my door that says what it means and a verse from the Bible. But, I really wish my name was Christian. I don't know why, I just think I could pull it off really really well. It's such a classy, fantastic name.

If you couldn't tell by that second paragraph, I'm a fairly devout Missouri Synod Lutheran. However, my faith seems to be like a rollercoaster: sometimes I'm more devout than any other person on the face of the Earth, while other times I wish that I was Agnostic. I love God, and I have no doubt in my mind that his son, our Lord Jesus Christ, was incarnate by the Holy Spirit in the Virgin Mary to die for our sins (yes, that was supposed to sound like part of the Nicene/Apostle's Creed). However, I do not like the church. People run the church, not God. I do not have full faith in the church because I don't have full faith in man. Man has messed up too many times for me to fully trust him. I only trust God and Jesus. Becuase of this lack of trust in man, I don't believe in all of the Bible. I believe that everything in it happened at one point or another, but I don't agree with the messages that people have exumed from its text. The Bible is supposed to convey a message of hope, faith and love. Not one of hate. I don't agree with the forbidding of homosexuality or abortion, or the blind honor to authority that Martin Luther (in his catechism) explained. The Catholic Church, before the time of the Reformation and even today molds the Word to fit its own personal desires, and almost all of Chirstianity is based off the Catholic mindset. Honestly, I just don't think I'll ever be the Christian I'd like to be, because I just can't bring myself ot agree with half of its teachings. I don't believe that everything interpreted from the Bible is exactly what God intended: I believe man twisted God's intention to fit his own twisted wants.

If you couldn't tell from that paragraph, I'm quite liberal. I'm a Democrat. I believe in a stron, central government and weak state governments. A country is a country due its government. Without a central government and separate state governments, the "country" would be more of a Confederation. I'm pro-choice. I'm pro-gay marriage. I don't think regular civilians should be able to bear arms. I do agree with capital punishment.

Now, this is gonna get tangent-y.

I love the idea of karma and reincarnation. I don't know if I necessarily believe in it, but I would love to be reincarnated as an animal or as a president or something.

I play seven instruments. I love all of them, almost equally, but my clear cut favorite to play is piano. I have excelled greatly in piano. After only playing for 3.5 years I achieved 2nd place at Saturday's Young Artist Piano Competition against other 17 year olds. Mind you, these players have been playing since they could sit up basically. Keep that in mind. I also play alto, tenor, and bari sax, clarinet, bass clarinet, bass trombone, and bassoon. I made the Western Massachusetts District Jazz Ensemble on bari sax. I was very, very proud. I'm a member of Westfield High School's Wind Ensemble, Concert Band, and Jazz Ensemble. I teach piano every Friday at The Music Cellar, where I also take lessons with the best teacher ever: Ellen Buoniconti. I plan to play musical instruments for my entire life, especially piano. When I'm rich enough to afford it, I would like a Bosendorfer Imperial, a nine-foot grand piano with 12 extra keys added to the bottom end of the piano. Agh, it's so pretty. I love playing jazz on wind instruments, but on piano I definitely consider myself a classical pianist. I love Beethoven, Chopin, Lizst, Ravel, Debussy, etc. I love everything classical music, especially anything from the Romantic period.

I'm pretty intelligent, and I have a fantastic work ethic. I'm 14th in my class with (approx.) a 97.18 GPA. I'm hoping to acheive top ten before I graduate. I'm enrolled in the most advance classes WHS offers. My senior year, instead of taking it easy, I'm taking 5 AP classes. I'm excited though, 'cause they're fun. I'm preparing myself for a top university, which is why I'm stretching myself out as thin as possible while still having an active social life as well as staying sane. The colleges I'm going to apply to are Brown, Stanford, WPI, UMass Amherst, Johns Hopkins, Harvard, UC Berkeley, Tufts, BU, and Columbia. I recently qualified for National Merit, meaning that I was one of the top 50,000 scores of the PSAT's. I was the only one in my school. My mommy and daddy were very proud. I did very well the first time I took my SAT's (I got a 2020), and I took them again, and I'm predicting an even higher score. I'm also taking the ACT in June, which I am also expecting a high grade.

I love to travel.

I love the idea of love, but I will not be in a relationship anytime soon. I like a lot of people, but I would never pursue a relationship with any of them. They always end up in someone getting hurt. I do want to get married and have kids when I'm out of medical school though.

I would like to major in biomedical engineering in college, with a double major possibly in mathematics. I would like to be a radiologist or an anesthesiologist when I'm older.

I like watching sports. I'm a die hard Red Sox fan, even though I haven't had much time as of late to watch the games. I like the Patriots, and the Bruins. I like watching tennis a lot a lot, my favorite two players being Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer.

I don't play sports, because I'm not very good at them.

I love shopping for clothes. I love Abercrombie and Fitch more than I love my life itself. Whenever I'm angry, I find release in either piano or shopping online at abercrombie.com.

I never get enough sleep, and I frequently stay up late. However, I'll randomly fall asleep during the day. Never during school though.

I love movies. I love books, too, but I'm an excruciatingly slow reader.

I love helping people.
I love editing papers.
I love writing.
I love crying.
I love laughing.
I love my friends.
I love driving.
I love working.
I love jumping up and down for no apparent reason.
I love making new friends.
I love making jokes.
I love analyzing.
I love talking.
I love the sound a keyboard makes when you type on a laptop.
I love Glee and Lost, which are my favorite TV shows.
I love everything about school.
I love my mom more than any other person on the face of the Earth.
I love my dad and my sister and my grandma more than any of my friends, and I love every other member in my large, large family.
I love listening to my iPod.
I love Mayday Parade.
I love Morgan Drewniany and Sammy Clarke, my two best friends.
I love yelling.
I love singing.
I love composing.

Okay, I think that's good for now. New posts will come soon. :)