Hey guys, my name is Austin Parker (as you already know) and I am from Atlanta, GA. This blog post is going to be me telling you about my life and the things important to me! Let me first start off by saying that the things I say in this post are MY beliefs and the things my life are based on. I completely understand that some may have opposing views on certain things and I respect that!
My life can be summarized by three simple words God, family, & friends with those being in order of importance to me. First thing is God, he is always #1! I openly claim Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior & my relationship with him is my biggest priority in life! Whether it is in relationships with friends or family, or when I step onto the field to play football, everything I do in life is to give him the glory! Next thing for me in life is my family. My family is my everything! They are the ones that have always been there for me no matter what! My parents are both major role models to me! I look up to them both in many ways and I pray that one day I will be just half of the parent that they have both been for me! I also have an older sister who is 21 years old. Although me and her fight and have our ups and downs I love her more than she will ever know and would take a bullet for her in a heartbeat! For me this last one, friends is pretty much the same as family. I say this because for me I have a group of close friends that have stuck by me through both thick & thin that I truly consider family. I even have their initials tattooed on my right arm around a star. Well eight of the eleven are tattooed on my arm and the other three, who are probably the friends that I have been closest with for the longest are all girls and I'm still in the process of drawing up a tattoo with their initials to get done.
Now that you know the three major things in my life I feel like there are still a few other things that I need to share in order to tell "All About Me". One of those things if it wasn't already known would be that I play football here at JSU and have been playing the sport for the past twelve years. I love everything about the game and if I'm not in class I am most likely training or practicing. Another thing you should probably know about me is that I am a bit obsessed with clothing and sneakers! I know, I know everyone says that sounds like a girl thing to say and in most cases it most likely is, but I cannot help the fact that I have a passion for both. If you looked in my closet here at JSU you would see about 20 shoe boxes that are either Nikes, Jordans, Converse or Adidas & that is not even half of my shoe collection, it is only the shoes that would fit in my closet here. Also if you looked into my closet you'd see a lot of t-shirts, some of which i designed personally and got made for myself. I aspire to one day have my own faith-based urban clothing line.
Since basically all of you haven't ever had a conversation with me therefore you dont know my personality so I figured I'd explain it just a little bit. To most at first I seem rude or stand offish which I understand because I am not outgoing and will almost never speak to someone first unless it is in a situation that it's needed, but i assure you I do not have bad intentions by it. You may wonder why I am that way and honestly the reason I dont speak to people first is because in my mind if you dont speak to me first then you must not have any interest in speaking to me and therefore I don't want to bother or annoy you by trying. I do understand in many cases this is not true but it is just how my mind works. If you ever want to talk to me for whatever reason I am not hard to carry a conversation with if I am approached and really do enjoy meeting and talking to people, so please be my guest and talk to me sometime! I promise I'm not the same way I may come off to be at first!
Also one last thing about myself that i feel compelled to share is that I love tattoos. I personally have 8 pieces of work on myself at the moment and will probably get more. I think tattoos are a unique way to express yourself and your beliefs! If I couldn't speak to describe myself, you could simply look at all of my tattoos and almost completely understand what I am about!
In closing out this blog post I am going to post a few pictures that show some of the things I am about and things that I love so that you may further understand who I am!
Above is me spending time at a local elementary school while on an international mission trip last spring.
Above: This is my favorite picture ever! This is a real street sign on the island of Eluethra in the Caribbean where I went on a mission trip.
This is another picture of me with the kids while on an international mission trip with my church.
This is a collage of football pictures. top left is me in 8th grade after winning the championship, bottom left is me my senior year in high school, and on the right is me when I put on my uniform here at JSU for the first time!
This is a picture of me dancing with my mom at my senior football banquet. I am proud to admit that I am a Momma's Boy!
This is my family, these three people are my everything! I don't know where I'd be without them!
Last but not least this is me and my boy Joe Jones after he scored a touchdown our senior year! Joe and his twin brother Jon are two of my closest friends and their family is truly a second family to me! I would do anything for them!
Well I hope you enjoyed learning about my life and hopefully I didn't bore you to death while reading this! I hope to get to know each and everyone of you as the semester goes on! Please feel free to go and add me or follow me on any of the social networks.
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