While life isn’t always easy, having a positive attitude is often half the battle.
This is the life philosophy of junior Dani Tiehen, a student athlete, an avid Christian and an overall social butterfly, who is always doing her best to stay positive, no matter what she’s doing.
“I think I’m a pretty kind, funny person,” Tiehen said. “I really dislike school, but I love everything else I do. I love being with my friends, and I love doing sports.”
While she is often busy with sports, schoolwork or overall life, nothing is more important to her than the people she loves and surrounds herself with.
“I just love being around people, and especially like Christian activities. I like being around faith–filled people,” Tiehen said. “But I also just love being around people in general. I love making new friends, talking to new people and just making memories with anyone I can.”
Tiehen especially implements her social skills and her faith in her community, and as she prepares to work with kids in the future, she does all she can to give back.
“I’m doing an internship next year at St. Malachy for the kindergarten class, and I’m going to be an aide there,” Tiehen said. “And then for volunteering, I volunteer at animal shelters and anywhere else I can, like homeless or food pantries or anything like that.”
Tiehen is known by her friends for this helpful and cheery demeanor, something longtime friend and junior Sophia Haboush can attest too.
“The general consensus is that Dani is very funny, very happy–go–lucky, and that she just enjoys life, and she tries not to, like, let things get her down,” Haboush said. “She’s just genuinely a really happy person, or at least she tries to be.”
This way of thinking is also what makes her advice and talks so great, as she always attempts to be open-minded and positive. Senior Logan Copley knows this, as he often likes to talk to her about the deeper parts of life.
“Like, whenever I talk to her, she always gives me the best advice and says, like, what I could I do, or what if I do this?” Copley said. “How is it going to affect so and so? Like, positive or negatively?”
Whether she’s giving advice, volunteering or hanging out with her friends, Tiehen’s outlook on life never changes.
“Just enjoy the moment. I think stressing about things you can’t control is really just upsetting, and it’s something that is unnecessary,” Tiehen said. “So I think just living in the now and not focusing about what other people think and what other people are going to say about you or how you’re going to be perceived is really important.”
