- things you value in yourself
- things you look for in a friend
- things you are absolutely unwilling to bend on
- things that annoy you
- faults that are forgivable in your eyes
- faults that are unforgivable in your eyes
- is it ever necessary to lie? When?
- what is your greatest accomplishment?
- what was your biggest mistake?
Monday, November 26, 2012
This Is How I Live My Life
Your assignment for the week is to create a prose piece that discusses how you approach life. It must be 750 words (400 for lab students). It should be proofread to ensure a minimum of errors. You can approach this in any way you like. Here are some things to consider:
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Over the four years I have spent in high school I have learned a lot about myself. One thing that I have learned is that I am a lot different than most of my friends. Not in the sense of things we like or how we act when we are all around each other, but in the sense that I carry myself differently and have a different mentality than they do. For example, I value different things in myself than they do in themselves. I am a good friend, or so I have been told. I am always there when they want to talk or when they need a shoulder to cry on. I have always been like that for them, or at least I try to always be like that for them. And even when we go our separate ways and go off to college, I hope they will always know that I will always be there for them. That is the major thing that I value in myself. Another thing that I value about myself is that I can be friends with anyone. I am the kind of person that can hang out with anyone and you may not always find me with the same people all the time. But a best friend, something that is hard to come by sometimes, is something that I choose very carefully. They have to be there for just as I am there for them. I do not care if we have the same interests because most likely we won’t. I just care that they will love me for the insane person I am and act just as insane with me. And when regarding best friends, I do not care how long they have been in my life or whom I have known the longest, the one thing that I care about the most is that they came into my life and never left my side. Through the fights, the tears, the laughter, they will always be there by my side. I know I know that may sound corny, but that is how I feel when it comes to best friends.
ReplyDeleteNow, I am not a person who gets easily annoyed, but some things that annoy me so much are cocky assholes, ignorance, and when people pretend to be stupid. Cocky assholes annoy me so much. If you look good and everyone knows you look good do not go around thinking you are the best thing to walk this Earth. Or if you are really good at something and everyone knows you are good at it, stay humble, no one likes a showboat. Ignorance annoys me because there is absolutely no reason for it. End of story. The fact that people pretend to be stupid is also unnecessary. What is the point in acting stupid? Do you think it looks cute? Do you think guys or girls will like you because of it? Well, I have news for you, they do not like it either! So just stop.
Now that I have gotten my rant out of the way, keep in mind I do that a lot too, I can continue. Looking back on my life and what I have accomplished I would have to say the greatest accomplishment would have to be being part of the Lady Destroyers’ Soccer team this year. This year was a successful year for us and I am proud to be a part of that. The one thing I wanted for that team was the respect from the town, the school, and from ourselves. The one thing I wanted and we achieved it. We finally had respect for ourselves because we now knew that we could do more than just win three games a season. We earned the respect from the school the night we played Middlesex in the GMC play-in game. We went to a shootout and when we won every student there stormed the field and surrounded us. It was the best soccer memory I have and I still get goose bumps when I think about it. We earned the respect of the town when we maybe it to the GMC tournament and when we made it to States. It was the best soccer season in school history and I could not be any more proud of being part of that team.
ReplyDeleteNot everything in my life is great either; I have made plenty of big mistakes in my life. Some affected my life a lot more than others, but all the same they were mistakes. Three mistakes were all quite similar. I had the chance to go and see my pop, my uncle, and my grandma before they passed away. I had one last chance to say goodbye to all each of them, but I chose not to. I did not think I would be able to build up enough courage to see them in the state that they were in. I could not bring myself to go and see them laying on their beds, knowing what was happening, what was going to happen. I would have just broke down in tears. This all happened between a year and a half ago and a few months ago. I still regret not going to see them sometimes. I question why I did not go and see them. After all, I would have been the last chance I would have gotten to say “goodbye” or “I love you”. I sometimes wish I could go back and change my mind, but it is too late and I cannot do anything now. Those would have to be my biggest mistakes in my life.
I’m not exactly sure how I live my life; I try to live it the best that I can and that is all there is to it. I value my character and sometimes the way that I act. Though I do not like how I act at times, I can be quite annoying and do not know when to stop which never helps. I tend to push people’s buttons when I’m in that kind of mood, which thankfully doesn’t come that often. When I’m not in that kind of mood I try to act respectful to most people. I cannot seem to be nice or even act nice to those I see as doing wrong, granted at times I’m just like that. I do not like when people are just mean to others just for the sake of being a jerk. That always gets me angry and I wish that I could do something about it but I do not want to involve myself in a conflict. I’ve been told that I am an idealist and I think to an extent I may be. I always think the world should be different and a better place, but I understand that it will never be the way that I think it should. I would consider myself to be good natured, I always try to do things for good reasons, unless I’m in one of my moods where I’m working on aggravating everyone I see. I also thing I show who I am at face value, you do not need to think on who I am and need to know me to find out what I’m like. I always liked that about me because it can quickly identify whether or not anyone would associate with me. I never like it when people are twofaced, I always despised those who would say that they hate a person then a few minutes later go up and talk to them like they were best friends for years. It was always simple things like that, that would always aggravate me. I’m now always trying to be kind to others but it is quite hard because I can’t help myself from being a smart alack. Whenever someone would ask a simple question I can’t stop my mouth and I would say something sarcastic in response to their question. If someone were to ask if it was snowing outside I would just say that the clouds have dandruff and their scratching their heads. I also generally try not to lie, I don’t see the need for it, someone tries to get away with something that they did and if they mess up they get in trouble for the same thing twice. It seems to be a waste of time that produces nothing in the end. I try to do things that are productive for me in different ways. I do things if I see them as necessity, if it is not necessary for me in the grand scheme of things than I usually don’t do it. There are exceptions to this of course, I do things also for comedic value on my part, if I find it funny and I’ll get a good laugh out of it I will wind up doing it. I also have a few mottos that I also live by but not too much because they rarely happen now. I got them from my uncle and I think they are funny and true. They are “you can’t cry unless your bleeding,” and “you’re not having fun unless your bleeding.” They are odd and there is some truth behind them. You can only cry if your bleeding when your hurt badly enough, and when you’re having fun you’re bound to get hurt and bleed so that shows you are having fun. I also have many problems with people who try to shove their beliefs down another’s throat. My thoughts are if you believe in something that is perfectly fine but you don’t need to try and make other people believe what you do because you think you should. I hate people who think they know what’s best for everyone in the world but have no control on their own lives. These people are some of the ones who are the problem with the world and who run this place that could be some much more and more beautiful if these people would just leave their heads up their butts and didn’t try to show others their way because it may not be the right way for them. I also believe that people should think for themselves and only worry about their own lives in the grand scheme of the world.
ReplyDeleteI really like how candid this is; I respect you for that.
DeleteI wouldn’t consider myself to be a conceited person, but I sure am confident. I think highly of myself and never had an issue with self-esteem. I guess you can say that’s something I value in myself, and I don’t really care about what people think of me. I live my life as to what’s best for me at that particular moment. If I worried about everything somebody said to me, I wouldn’t be a happy camper, and that would give another person power over to me to dictate how my life will go. That’s too much power for one human being.
ReplyDeleteWhen it comes to choosing friends, I’m good at it but I’m not great. For some reason people come into my life and destroy the trust I have for them, that’s not a person I can call my friend. My real friends are the ones that have actually put time in, I’m talking years. My best friend and I have been friends since we were in the third grade, and she’s like sister to me. Other people I call them “Temporary Associates.” They’re never in my life for a long time. In a friend or any relationship I come across, I value honesty, loyalty, trust, a keen sense of humor, now and days it’s hard to come by people that have all of these qualities. Some people take the time to earn my trust and some just feel like they’re obligated to have it, little do they know it doesn’t work that way.
I have many pet peeves, but I wouldn’t say a lot of things annoy me. One of my pet peeves is the clanging of dishes when they’re being put back into the cabinets. The sound of the glass hitting each other makes me cringe. I also hate when someone comes in my room or whatever room I’m in and don’t close the door when they leave. I always have to yell, “Close the door!” I also can’t stand when people smack their foods or chew with their mouths open. It looks and sounds disgusting. Another thing that annoys me is when people lie straight to my face, especially when I already know the truth.
People tend to make mistakes that can and sometimes can’t be forgiven. I consider myself to be a somewhat forgiving individual, when the fault is minor. Something that I can forgive somebody for is lying to me, if the reason why is understandable. For example, during my freshman year my uncle was diagnosed with Prostate cancer and my parents kept it from me. They told me he was getting a minor surgery, come to find he was getting surgery to remove the disease. My mom told me she lied to me because she didn’t want me to worry and not tend to my schoolwork. She lied for a good reason, so I forgave her. On the other hand, I wouldn’t forgive somebody for intentionally trying to hurt me. Some things I just can’t tolerate. If a person can lie straight to my face and tell me a bold face lie, weather I know the truth or not is way of insulting my intelligence. I don’t like that feeling and so I will choose not to associate with you anymore.
My greatest accomplishment would have to be when I won my seventh grade Oratory contest. I practiced so hard for that and it helped me be outspoken and not shy, like I used to be. It helped with my social life and allowing me to speak in front of others. Winning the contest proved to myself that I was actually good at something. My biggest mistake would be when I decided not to put my best foot forward and do my work. I have to understand that my junior year is what counts and I can’t be slacking off out of laziness. I need to get back on track and stay on top of my work, basically getting priorities in check. Now, my grades for the first marking period aren’t looking too good.
I can relate to the clanging of dishes thing. I get a little short with my wife over that sometimes. I like the part you wrote about the necessary nature of lies on occasion.
DeleteWhat is life? Something that we are born into and eventually leave? Something not worth dealing with? No. Life is something worth living. Through the things most important to you, anything is possible, even life itself. Values, wants, beliefs, views, accomplishments, mistakes. They are all things that drive each and every one of us to keep living. I specifically, am driven to accomplish the hardest tasks, to live true to my beliefs, to forgive the unforgivable.
ReplyDeleteValues are of the highest importance in the lives of most people. Music, love, God, and education are the most important things in my life at this point. Music speaks to my heart and takes me away from everyday life. It lets me forget the impurities of the human race. The mistakes people make. Music is a story with no need for words. And I am living that story. Playing and listening are both equally vital. Listening helps me understand others and see how they view the world in comparison to me. But playing lets me tell others of my views. I can make the music my own, take it in any direction I want, and let it flow into a masterpiece. It is a wonderful thing to be able to play and understand music. My love of music coincides with the love I feel towards my family and friends. They have helped me through the toughest times in my life. They are always there for me and would do their best for my wellbeing. Especially my friends, they understand me and can relate to me. The love we all share can never be broken even if we all commit the worst of sins; our friendship will still be intact. My relation to God is another thing that can never be broken. No matter what happens, no matter who he takes away from me, I still love him and believe in him. He knows what is best for me. And if he doesn’t grant me what I ask for in my prayers, he has something even better lined up for me. I will always trust him and have faith in his works. Nothing can make me stop believing in my God. The last important value in my life is my education. Most people don’t consider education a value. But where would we be without it? We would be lost, back in the Neolithic era, doomed to a life of ignorance and stupidity. Although annoying, school is essential. If it wasn’t, the government would not make it mandatory and give it to us for free. School is what helps us make the best out of our lives. School is vital to accomplish the dreams you have now. Without it, those dreams are crushed. And what do we have to look forward to if we have no dreams?
To fix the broken and repair shattered bonds is another reason why I strive to make the most out of my life. Unforgivable acts include murder and dishonoring yourself. Murder without cause is obviously an unforgivable act. I am not for war but those soldiers risking their lives to save their country, our country, have a cause for killing. They are keeping us and the world safe, a reasonable motive to kill their enemies. And even if the murder has no cause, God will still forgive the sinner. He forgives you of any sin as long as you are honestly sorry and still want to follow him. The only other truly unforgivable act is the dishonoring of yourself. You should never put yourself down. Always believe you can do the unthinkable and trust in yourself. Don’t let others tell you that you’re not good enough. Don’t let them put you down. Be proud of who you are. One of the worst things you can do to yourself is disgracing yourself. You will never be worthless. You will never be insignificant. You will always be a treasure to someone in this world. Downgrading your life to make yourself believe you will never be valued, is a true sin. Never lose faith. Never lose hope. And never lose the image of who you truly are and what you stand for.
Your feelings about music echo my own thoughts about it. Very cool. You are a person of tremendous faith and security about who you are.
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ReplyDeleteThe things I value about myself are that I don’t judge people by what they look like or where they come from. I understand other people’s situations; I let them talk before I give them my opinion. I think before I do sometimes. I’m always there for anyone that needs someone to talk to. I put people that are important to me first before I take care of myself. I don’t get into much trouble, and if I do get into trouble than it would because of school or saying something. I’m easy going; I’ll just go with the flow. It doesn’t take much to make me happy, and hyped. I can be very outgoing when I am meeting new people or when I’m in a room of people I know. I can forgive people easily, as long as they prove that they deserved to be forgiven. I will do anything to help my family out if anything were to happen or if they needed help with something.
ReplyDeleteThings I look for in a friend, is someone that will always be there for me when I need them. Someone that can understand me but still have an opinion and not be scared to say it. Someone that I can trust with everything. A person that is funny and knows how to make me happy. A person that isn’t scared to speak their mind. Someone that can just talk about anything. I want my friend to be smart about serious decisions and look up to me, but yet I will be looking up to them. Things that are unwilling to bend on are talking or disrespecting any of my family members. Having a fist fight. Also always being negative about everything that goes on. I don’t like it when people lie about people’s death.
Things that annoy me are being woken up by loud noise. Having people that I care about fighting. People that I have to take care of when they are intoxicated. I don’t like when people touch my face. Also when I ask a question that is not needed for sarcasm. When someone always asks the same question over and over again when they know the answer will always be the same. I get annoyed when people just look at me for no reason. I get annoyed when people talk a lot in the morning. I also get annoyed when people are hypocrites. Also when people bring up the past all the time.
Faults that are forgivable in my eyes, is if someone said something that they didn’t mean to say. Like if I and that person were having an argument and they brought something up about the past I would be mad and need time to cool off but I would forgive them. Another thing that I can forgive is if someone makes a mistake and learned from it. If someone did something that they regret and I know that they would regret I would forgive them for doing so. I won’t forgive if a family member left me for someone that isn’t family. If my brother left me for his girlfriend I probably would never forgive him or let him forget it but I would still have to live with him.
I don’t think it is necessary to lie unless you’re doing it to protect someone. If it’s a lie that they make so that another person won’t get hurt until they know the truth. Or if someone is doing something good for someone and don’t want them to know they can lie about it. Say a person is surprising someone with something that they would have to lie about so that they can be surprised.
My biggest mistake would have to when I didn’t open up to my mom about everything. I would be too scared to tell her stuff because she is hard to talk to and doesn’t listen before she talks, so I would lie to her about things. I don’t think that she and I have the best relationship because I wouldn’t tell her things out in the open. Or I would just not talk about it, making her and I have bad communication skills and it can ruin things for the future if she and I don’t start talking about things now. When I get older I want to accomplish going and finishing college, also having a job that I am happy with. I think that if I find a job that I am happy with than it won’t be such a drag to go. I want to be able to work with people that won’t get me so aggravated fast. It’s hard to find a job that you love or that you don’t mind working at but money is money.
I absolutely loved reading the part about the things that annoy you. Highly entertaining. You express a wisdom that is rare for a person of your young age.
DeleteBefore I begin this essay type thing, I feel the need to point out that in the assignment it is clearly stated that “You can approach this in any way you like.” So, here goes nothing.
ReplyDeleteOf all of these topics I could write or rant about, I have to focus my full hatred and boredom onto the topic of what annoys me. Anyone that knows me knows that there are infinitely many things that grind my gears. If you consider yourself my friend and don’t know that, consider yourself added to said things. One of the most annoying things that people do when they see me is comment about how tall I am. I mean, if it’s a simple thing like “Wow, you’re tall!” and it’s the first time someone has ever seen me, that’s understandable. It’s mostly when people have seen me every day in school and have had full conversations with me and then decide to ask me “Why are you so tall, Chuck??” I don’t know why I’m so tall! Actually, I do, it’s because of genetics. I’m not randomly tall, my dad’s tall, and so am I. It’s not that hard to figure out.
Keeping the tall rant going, it annoys me when people ask me why I don’t play basketball or tell me I should play basketball. Really? You saw that I’m tall and immediately assume I should play basketball? I’ll tell you what, come to gym class and watch me try to make a basket. Most of the time I don’t even try because I know how bad I am, but I’ll do it, just for you, fictional person.
Something else that annoys me is people that can’t physically understand why you don’t enjoy the same things they do. Not only that, but when they question you about why you don’t like it and try convincing you to like it. I’m sorry that I don’t have a passion for One Direction, I really am, but explaining to me how their songs have so much meaning and how cute their accents are isn’t going to change a thing! If there isn’t bass being dropped at least every three minutes or if there isn’t an awesome sounding guitar solo going on somewhere then I can’t listen to it, that’s just me. Yet do you see me trying to explain to you how awesome it is when the smooth electronic beat turns into a breakdown or how amazing it sounds when a guy goes ballistic on his guitar? No, you don’t.
Sometimes it’s not even acts that people do that piss me off. There’s literally words in the English language that gross me out and annoy me. The number one word I hate is moist. Moist? Really Chuck? Yes, moist is disgusting, please search deep in your vocabulary for a different word. Anyone that says irregardless is a terrible person. It’s regardless, kind sir, please take a moment and recognize. Good? Good.
Oh dear, this is utterly fantastic. It should be etched on the walls of the Pantheon.
DeleteI can never control what people say or do but I do give them my opinion. I try and live my life without worrying about my future even though I’d rather plan it out and get a head start. I mostly want to succeed to make my parents and the rest of my family proud of me. I try my hardest at school but like a lot of people I tend to struggle with balancing work and school. I like working and making my own money, I just hate asking my parents for it because for some reason it feels as if it annoys them. Many people don’t take me seriously because of my height which annoys me completely! I can do some things that a taller person can do and short people are strong too just like a tall person. I always get picked on by some of my “friends” but I always tend to prove them wrong. I hate getting downgraded by so many people that think that they’re better than others because it’s not true I remember how many of those people talked about their flaws and now act like they don’t have any. My goal is to join the National Guard and with their help get into college but don’t get me wrong regardless of their help or not I will still be able to get in. By joining the National Guard I know that I can at least do something useful with my life and help those who really need it instead of resting at home practically doing nothing while others are struggling. Many of my family members didn’t and still don’t approve of the idea but hey it’s what I want to do and if it makes my parents proud then they have nothing else to say. When I told my dad about it he didn’t believe me at first he thought I was bluffing but when I showed him that I was already working on it and showed him that I talked to the recruiter his face went pale and he didn’t move at all, but then right after I was already expecting a lecture - “If it makes you happy then go for it, you know that your mother and I would always support you.” It made me feel good knowing that they have my back on it and that my decision wasn’t going to be debated on. My family has always been into being a soldier, I have two cousins right now going for the Marines and I would be the first lady out of all of them to be a soldier. My dad’s brothers were all in the armed forces in their country but never here.
ReplyDeleteMy parents taught me a lot and never will I ever disrespected those who raised me. I have learned a lot from my fellow classmates, I have seen and heard about what they have done but no one should talk about it because they’re not them but most people don’t fully understand that until someone spreads a rumor about them. That’s how it always is. I stay quiet every time I hear these things; it’s just annoying and none of their business. The one thing that just gets on my nerves is when you catch someone in a lie and they still keep on lying about. I have caught a few people and all I could say was “oh”, “really?” or “tell me about it.” because there was no reason for me to argue with someone that absurd and dumb.
Don’t get me wrong, I have made my mistakes too and I won’t deny them, there’s just no reason too. I regret ignoring my little brother and sister and I regret not spending so much time with them before they moved to Florida. When parents mess up and bring kids into this world it’s actually not the kids fault and they shouldn’t be blamed nor hated about anything. I tried my best to communicate with them again and make things right but sometimes they don’t put the effort that I do in order to get along. Once my family met them things changed and our family fell apart. My mom felt betrayed and dragged us all in it, my sister sided with her, my dad separated from his family, and I was the one stuck in the middle. We were always close and whenever we had problems we always went to my dad’s sister but after everything happened my dad was too proud to show his face and have me go visit them, it wasn’t fair to me or my dad’s side of the family. I regret not stopping this before.
I like your idea of simply saying "oh really" to those who waste your time by perpetuating a lie.
DeleteI live a life style that not many people can live. I choose my words and friends wisely and I make decisions that don’t just benefit me but I make them so it can positively affect everyone in my life. Choosing friends is one of the most important things that you do in life. Your friends can influence the way you live your life and the choices you can make. I never decide to make people my friends without thinking carefully about it first. There needs to be time to talk and hangout with them to see what personality they have. I never rush with this decision because it can impact your life in a major way. The more time you spend with someone the more likely you will find out who they really are. All my friends can laugh at themselves and laugh at each other without taking it seriously. They also all love to play or watch some kind of sport that I like too. They also share the same values that I do. When they see someone struggling with someone they always ask if they need help. I also don’t like to lie about anything serious but a few white lies about little stuff don’t bother me at all. My values really are not that different from everybody else I do what I think is right and I frown upon things that I think shouldn’t be done. I believe that stealing is something that really should never be done unless it’s life or death. One thing that can really make me angry is when people lie about what they are doing. It doesn’t matter what it is I just like to be told the truth at all time. If you’re not home and you can’t hangout just say it, don’t make up some excuse like you are at your grandparents house. I also don’t like to be left out of things that people do. If you are going to the movies and were friends I want to be invited even though sometimes I won’t be able to go, the jester its self is good enough for me. Even if you are just going to get some food I always like to go along for the ride. Almost everything is forgivable in my eyes. I understand that sometimes stuff happens but with a sincere apology you will be okay with me. You won’t get many chances to apologize to me. After a couple times of the same thing happening it won’t matter what you say because I will not forgive you and we will never be friends again. It’s a very fine line to walk and when you cross it you will never get back on my good side. It’s the fact of being crossed more than once that will get me angry or disappointed in a person. I also love to be around sports or athletic events, it’s where I am most comfortable. I love to compete and win in any kind of sports or game. Some of my favorite moments in life have revolved around sports. I always am involved in some kind of sports and because of that the people around me tend to be involved with sports. I also have to battle with some difficult challenges with my bad knees. During the winter my body shuts down and doesn’t like to be pushed or challenged in physical activities. My knees will get stiff and I won’t be able to play as many sports as I would like. It’s just something I have gotten use too. Even though sports are a major role in my life I still won’t pursue playing them any further then high school. I love sports but I realize that every good thing has to come to an end otherwise you won’t realize how special that thing really is. The one thing that I regret doing in life is that I didn’t lift or take my freshman and sophomore year of off season football workouts seriously enough and I could have been a lot stronger and better now if I had taken those years seriously.
ReplyDeleteThe things that i value in myself is the fact that i am not that easily persuaded into peer pressure and i am strong willed also i'm my own person and i do not judge people by what they dress like or the things that they do but how they act.Things that i value in a friend is that they don't get into a lot of trouble honesty, trust. alot of things annoy me but what really annoys me is the fact that people talk to much to you and act like you care another thing is when people keep asking you something over and over and over again, one of the last things that i hate is when people act like they are better than everyone just because they have something that other people don't. things that are never forgiving in my eyes is the fact that someone kills somebody else for no reason because your taking someon life away and that can never be replaced, another fault that can never be forgiveable is people who attempt to take advantage of a young girl or boy because that can scar them for life and is digusting that an adult would do that to a harmless girl or boy. Faults that are forgivable in my eyes is someone stealing food just to survive and make it because not everyone has money and some people have a hard getting food so they steal.Also a fault that is forgivable in my eyes is when someone defends him or herself and maime someone because someone else might be trying to hurt them so they defend their own life.My biggest acomplishment is when i got my eighth grade football plaque and when we went to daytona for the youth football championships. my biggest mistake was getting suspended for a stupid thing that i did and that i seriouslously that i regret.
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DeleteIn the words of Madonna, “Life is a mystery.” When I was born, I didn’t know what was in store for me; just take it as it comes. As I grew up, I seemed to realize that I can handle anything that came my way. Whether it was a death in the family, the tournament my travel softball team won, or even my first day of school, I was ready to deal with it. When I was younger, my dad would always tell me “Don’t sweat the small stuff.” He would tell me that whenever I would overwork myself. To this day I still live by that quote. I will take life by the horns and will ride until I get knocked off. And when I get knocked off, I will get back on and keep riding life until the day I die.
ReplyDeleteThe things I value in myself I believe to be very unique. One thing that I value is my family. Without them, I am nothing. My family is very special to me in every way possible. Their love is one of the things that give me strength to get out of bed in the morning. Their love is one of the things that carry me through the day. Another thing that I value in myself is my personality. My friends and family tell me that I am down to earth and have a personality that they haven’t observed before. (And they aren’t just saying that). One last thing that I value is my care for others. I may not be as caring for others like Tim Tebow is with the charities he builds and the hospital his foundation is building in the Philippines. But I do help people whenever possible. When at any store, I would stand in the doorway and hold the door for the person behind me. I could say “God Bless You” whenever someone would sneeze. I try to do what I can. It feels good to help others. Those things I value deeply.
My friends, along with my family, make me smile every day. At one point in time, every friend was once a stranger. When I moved to Dunellen in kindergarten, I was looking for certain aspects in the kids that were in my class. The one thing I looked for was their personality. If the kids around me seemed friendly enough to talk to, I would talk to them. I was a very shy child then. The personality the kids expressed was one thing I looked for. I found great personality in the girls whom I now call my best friends. Another thing I look for in friends is trust. A key to friendship is trust. When I would talk to the kids in my class, I would look for their trust. After I found out who my true friends were, I would lay my trust in their hands. The two main things I really look for in friends are personality, and trust.
I am absolutely unwilling to bend on a thing or two. For example, I do not tolerate liars. People who lie cannot be that trustworthy. I don’t like it when people lie because I lose respect for them, no matter what it is they lie about. Another thing I can’t tolerate is when people disrespect others. Treat others the way you want to be treated. If you treat someone like dirt and be a jerk to them, you’re basically telling everybody you want people to jerk you around. Inconceivable. I will not go on a rant of how unwilling to bend on those kinds of traits.
ReplyDeleteThere are a few things in life that get me very annoyed. I get mad easily because I am an emotional person. Anybody who has played sports with me knows what I am talking about. One thing that I cannot stand is slow walkers. If I’m in the school hallway and I’m walking, I go at my own pace. I walk somewhat fast. As the other classes get out, the students start to walk slowly for no reason. I go crazy on the inside, especially when there’s no way around them. Another thing that I cannot stand is when I get tailgated or beeped at while I’m driving. I’ll be driving the speed limit, when the person behind me drives right behind me and tailgates me. Oh I’m sorry, I’m driving the speed limit and you’re riding my butt, please tell me how riding right behind me will make you get to your destination faster. Pathetic.
What are things forgivable in my eyes? People who truly don’t mean what they did and will do anything to try and make up for it, and actually mean it. If somebody hurts another person accidentally, and didn’t mean to hurt them, they will do anything to make up for what they did. That shows that there is good in some people. Seeing that people are being nice to others makes me feel good.
What is my greatest accomplishment? One of the best things that I’ve done would have to be growing taller than my mom. My lifelong dream since I was just a wee child was to grow taller than my mom, because at one point she was the tallest female in my family; and now I am. Another great accomplishment of mine would be when I hit a homerun in softball my freshman year. I love softball, and hitting a homerun made me feel great. We were at a tournament, and the first game that we played I struck out all three times. The next game we played, the first time I was up I hit the ball so damn hard it just kept going. It was way out in left field and I just rounded the bases, feeling spectacular. I redeemed myself, and it showed. I don’t feel this as much an accomplishment, but one thing that I am proud of would be the first yellow card I ever got in soccer. I feel as though I didn’t do anything to deserve it, but the ref thought otherwise. Picture this: as I was running, the girl on the other team ran in front of me, and tripped over my feet. The ref thought I pushed her, and carded me. I may have gotten carded, but I felt so good, and so pumped from that one game, and I wanted to play harder. I wanted to show that I’m not afraid to push people down, even though I didn’t that game. I have quite a few accomplishments that I wanted to share, and these are the ones I’m most proud of, and feel amazing about.
Excellent. I hate slow walkers too. You have great ideals.
DeleteI appreciate life. Some people I talk to occasionally say that life is hell and life is just a constant battle that you must fight for as long as you are alive. I for one don’t think of life as a battle, I cherish the fact that we can live, especially in a country like this where we have rights and we are free. It is also quite interesting when you think of life now compared to life back hundreds of years ago when people got killed for expressing your opinion. Nowadays people are more rational and can understand that. Back to the life thing, one of the things I appreciate about myself is my intellect. When I am hanging out with my friends I’m usually being funny and not showing how smart I actually am. Some things that I look for in a friend are that they are true friends. I don’t want friends that constantly ditch me all the time when I want to hang out, and I especially don’t want friends that just like to make fun of me or my other friends. Things that I would not bend on would most likely be people who smoke. A lot of people in my family smoke and every time I am around a smoker I always get terrible headaches. If one of my friends smoked, I would try really hard to try and get him to stop. Pretty much if one of my friends was doing any type of drug it would tick me off. Some things that annoy me are people who worry about themselves all the time and really don’t care about anyone else. Another big one is people who constantly try to make me believe the things that they do. You know who I’m talking about, people that say that if you believe something other than what they believe in, then you are the hypocrite and you are the idiot. Lastly for things that annoy me are people who are always moaning and complaining and sad about something. Why can’t you just laugh and be happy like the rest of us. Life is short so you should at least try to be happy. Some things that I would forgive people for is whenever they get really mean. Me and my friends joke around a lot and are always calling each other names and just joking around. But every once in a while things can get a little crazy and it could turn from joking around to a pretty serious argument. Things like that I can forgive because friends will be friends and people will eventually get over it. I can say the same thing about other people. I always try and be as nice to people as possible even if they are jerks because. I am not hardwired to be a jerk and whenever I am mean to someone on purpose which is not that often, I just don’t feel right after words. That’s why I try not to be mean. Now things that are unforgivable in my eyes I can’t really think of. If someone makes a mistake, they should at least be forgiven once. Now onto lies, lies are natural. People lie all the time, it’s human nature. If everyone was forced to tell the truth all the time, nobody would have any friends because you would offend everybody by telling them what you actually think of them. I even lie a good amount, if I forgot to feed the dog and my mom asked me, knowing that if I tell her the truth she will yell at me, I’m going to tell her I fed the dog. So yes, I think lies are ok for the most part, except the really big lies that maybe change your whole friendship with someone or maybe your life. An accomplishment that I think is pretty good is that I did seven years of really hard karate and I got numerous belts and made it so high in the rankings some days I was teaching adults to do things. And probably the best accomplishment I can think of is I made it through a bad disease I had a few years ago. Off the top of my head I can’t think of a really big mistake that I made. Probably a somewhat bad mistake was not taking doing too good in 7th grade. My parents were always mad at me that year and it really upset me, until 8th grade when I did really good and I kind of made up for the past year. That’s pretty much my life story.
ReplyDeleteI feel like I know you a little better from reading this. Thanks for that.
DeleteI live my life in many different ways
ReplyDeleteSomething that lets me push my way through is my friends
My friends always has their way to make me smile
In those days I’m down
They have something special
Don’t ask but they have something that creates someone’s day
It’s their personality
They are bubbly
They are my other half
They have a smile which softens the heart
It’s something that when you hang out with those perfect people
They make me laugh
With all their jokes
With their crazy actions
Their facial expressions
A joke fills me up with a sprinkle of a smile
Their crazy actions like acting like an animal
They aren’t afraid to be themselves
Which is hard for an average person to do now a days
They do anything to create a boring time into an unforgettable memory
They make a face where they look at a baby the baby jumps of fear
For us though we think it’s funny
We are very strange
Their strangeness and my strangeness are a perfect match
We talk
We write notes
Notes are the way to express your feelings
To tell them something that you’re afraid to tell them face to face
They understand
You understand
That’s another great quality of friends
They try their best to understand you
When you’re feeling down or when you feel happy
They push me to think positive
That’s something I will be internally grateful for the rest of my life
For when I’m down and not able to get up
They reach out put my hands on their shoulders and push me through to get to the finish line
They don’t leave me
We all win together
Or we don’t win at all
We are a family and we stick together like a family
If we get emotionally put down
We all gather around like doctors to repair the heart
We are all those therapist ready to help them talk out their feelings
We are all ready to listen and open our hearts up to them
We try out best to make them be happy
There is no such thing as putting our “friends” down
Its only giving and advice and telling them what’s best for them
For if one of us gets hurt it’s like we all get hurt
We don’t like any of us having a sad face
We are all sad
Or we are all happy
We pull ourselves through
It doesn’t matter what’s going on as long as we help
For me my friend’s happiness is my happiness
If they smile I smile
If they can’t stand their home my home is ready to receive them
My family has open hands for all my friends
We help each other out in anything
If we have problem with our families we give experience
Experiences of how to deal with family problems
All we think about is that we have parents they love us
They want the best for us even though we might not agree
They want the best of us
Just like all of us want the best for each other
We just want each other to be happy
The only thing that we desire is for the other person’s happiness
All that we worry about is how their emotional status is
Even if they have a frown all they care about is doing their best to put a smile on their face
A smile is what is the best for me
There is nothing that I enjoy more than them being happy
If they are happy I know that I will be
Most of my life was depended on how they feel
If they are in a good mood then I will be in one
My way of life is putting a smile one everyone’s face
If I can’t make it happen then it will slowly put me down
There’s only so much I can do the rest is up to them
I put my part in making them better and all I do is hope that they do their part
When I help them they help me back
It’s only a win for all of them
For I turn strong and they turn strong
They convince me to strife for the best in life
They ask the best for me and that is what keeps me going
That’s the reason the way I am
That’s how I live my life
My friends play in a big part of how I am and how I live
If it wasn’t for them I don’t think I would be this far in life
They help me just like the way I help them
That’s how I live my life
This is my personal rant. This is my personal rant about everything in the world that annoys me, which is just about everything. But pretty much, I will start by apologizing if I offend anybody but really I do not care that much because these are my personal opinions about stuff. If you do not agree with me then keep your opinions to yourself because I really do not want to get into a fight with anybody. So here we go… The things that get Kate Lester annoyed!
ReplyDeleteNumber one, people who walk slow in the hallways, or anywhere for that matter. Like seriously, my grandma could walk faster than you. You only have three minutes to get to your next class why do you find the need to walk as slow as a turtle. And then you wonder why you are always late to your classes! Here is a suggestion for all you slow walkers out there… pick up your damn feet and walk faster! I do not have my entire life to wait around for you to walk like 0.0000001 miles per hour!
Number two; little kids that cry in stores annoy me. I realize that ‘we were all little at one point” but I did not throw tantrums in the middle of stores! I hate the sound of babies crying, especially when they are screaming at the top of their lungs! It gets me so aggravated, I always have the urge to just walk up to the baby, child, parent, whoever and punch them in the face. But since that is usually frowned upon by society now-a-days… I hold myself back here is my suggestion to parents, I understand that you cannot control when you child cries but please, please, PLEASE, just take the baby outside… I will not kill you or the baby to just sit outside and wait until the baby is done crying.
Number three; this one goes out to people who hate on other people’s music taste. This has recently made me more and more annoyed because I like a band that many people find the need to hate. Yes, I like One Direction. You can think that they are for little kids, you can call them gay, and you can say they have no talent, but do not go telling me. First of all, usually if you do not like them then you do not know much about them. Maybe you should try doing a little research about them, not just One Direction, but any band. Everybody has their different tastes in music so just keep your opinions to yourself and maybe we could live in peace. I do not go around saying bad things about other types of music because I understand that everyone has their different tastes in music. Suggestion, just let me enjoy my music and if you don’t want to hear whatever music I’m playing, then put in your own headphones and enjoy your own music.
ReplyDeleteNumber four; okay this one is kind of random but it really annoys me and it is kind of hard to explain so I will just try my best to explain through examples. It annoys me when there is an even number of things because then there is no clear middle. For example, in my family, there are four people. Come Christmas time, when the stocking are hung by the chimney with care, I do not like it because there is really no focal point because there is no clear middle to the stockings! Call me crazy but this really annoys me. And the other thing is that I do not exactly like odd numbers because they cannot be divided equally, for example, in yearbook, there are 35 senior slant pictures and they have to fit onto six pages. You can see that six does not go into 35 equally. It only goes in five times with five remaining pictures! This just kills my OCD. In my perfect world, there would be 36 pictures so that each page could be uniform. Suggestion, well this is a really crazy thing that annoys me and I cannot really do anything about it so I don’t quite have a suggestion for this one, sorry.
Number five; I do not know how I did not think of this one earlier… I HATE it with a burning passion when people comment on my weight. Those comments like “Oh my God Kate! You weight like 2 pounds!” or “Kate! I just want to feed you!” I just give them this look… I do not weigh two pounds; if I did I would most likely be dead. I also eat like a cow. People comment on my weight like I do not know. It is just super annoying and I’m sorry I can’t get any fatter. Whatever, all the haters are just jealous. Suggestion, if you want to make some obvious comment about how much I weight… don’t.
ReplyDeleteThere are so many more things that annoy me but since I am already like one hundred words over the minimum I will stop. I am the type of person that tries to avoid conflict with people because I really do not enjoy being involved with people’s drama. I was also taught by my parents that if you do not have anything nice to say, then do not say anything at all. Yeah, that is pretty cliché but it is a good saying to live by. I am not the type of person to confront someone else when they are doing something annoying. I will just brush it off and continue on with my life.
I value many things in myself. I think the most important of all the things I value in myself is that I actually like who I am. That may seem strange, but so many people I meet can’t stand themselves, and I think that’s sad. How can you not like yourself? I’m also extremely confident. It’s very hard to get me down, because I believe that my opinion of myself is the only one that matters. Everyone has bad days though, but I always make sure to remind myself that everything gets better with time. I could never let myself be one of those teenagers who hate the world and everything in it, including themselves. What I value in myself is that I’m not afraid to be me, and be myself happily.
ReplyDeleteSomething that annoys me to no end is when people point out my flaws, as though I don’t already see them. People like to mention the fact that my nose is slightly turned up, and it’s gotten to the point where I can’t stand it even when people aren’t saying it to be mean. But as much as that bothers me, nothing gets me more than when people ask me if I’m anorexic. It makes me wonder if their parents ever taught them what manners were. What if I were anorexic? I absolutely am not anorexic. Just because a person is skinny doesn’t mean they’re anorexic, and it is more than rude to ask about something like that. When someone says it I usually try to calm myself down by convincing myself that they’re just jealous, but I still don’t think it’s an appropriate question to ask someone.
Ever since I was little my brother has been telling me that there were two unforgiveable things a guy to do to a girl; cheating and beating. I’ve never told him that I don’t fully agree with him. In some instances I actually find cheating forgivable. I’m not saying that I personally would cheat and think that I could get away with it; I just feel that under certain circumstances it can be overlooked. First of all, the cheating person cannot be married. If you cheat on your spouse then I don’t believe you deserve to be forgiven. Though, if you just started a new relationship and something happens with a person you have past history with, then I can almost get past it. Sometimes I believe that when you’re with someone else, it makes you realize how much you truly want to be with another person. If the cheating only happens once, then I think it’s something that can be worked past.
Though I may find cheating forgivable in certain situations, I do full heartedly believe that beating is never acceptable. No man should lay his hands on a girl like that. Ever. When my mother first started seeing my father she was engaged to someone else. When her fiancé found out he confronted her, and he hit her. She never spoke to him again after that. She is one of the reasons I so firmly believe that beating is wrong (other than the fact that it should just be common sense). If a man ever hit me it would be completely unforgivable. There is no excuse.
A few paragraphs on things that bother me and things that I like aren’t going to explain “who I am”. I am I hopeless romantic. I am indecisive. I do things I shouldn’t, even when I know I shouldn’t do them. I am the girl that cries over the death of her favorite fictional characters. I am the girl that cares way too much about people who barely notice her. I am Kate, and I’m writing about who I am, but even if I sat here for hours and explained every aspect of my life, you still wouldn’t know me. I know me. I like to let people think they know me but none of them really do. That may seem strange, but that’s just who I am.
The biggest question someone can be asked is “how do they live their life?” Some people may say that they live their life on the edge. Some may even say they do it as if it is their last day. Others might not even consider how they live it, but for me I have a special way that I direct my life. I live my life by looking forward. Instead of focusing on the past my mind is always racing. It is always looking toward the future and the choices I can soon make. Why would someone want to dwell on things that already happened? Or even better, why focus on things that you can’t change? To me that seems like a very boring and unappealing way to live things out. My mind stays put on the things that I can change the things that no one else can see, but myself. My life is based around my imagination. Yes, that does sound weird, but think about it in a deeper sense. If you live your life in reality wouldn’t it be boring? Just imagine living your life everyday not being able to dream. Not being able to be free from life or even just find a secret place of your own. Living life in reality is like living life out in the open. It’s like having nothing to call your own. Instead of thinking of the “what if’s” all you’re thinking about is the “what will’s”. By “what will’s” I mean the things in life that you know will happen. The “what if’s” are the things that could happen if someone made them happen. That is how I live. I live on the “what if?” side of life. The side where everyone lives outside of the box and are completely open to their own imagination. I barely do live in real life. My mind is mostly in my imaginary place and this is all because everything is better there. Though I do live in an interesting place my life sadly is not directed away from the negative things of life. My days do still get shadowed out like everyone else. There are times where I don’t even see the sun shine around me, but I never focus on those things. Something even more interesting about how I run my life is that I run it for myself. My life is not based on the people that I meet and befriend. Though I do have friends and care about them deeply I don’t let that define my life. If my life was defined by how many friends I have or even get then my life wouldn’t be worth living at all. That means that my whole living would be in vain because then I was living for the satisfaction of others. I was living to please other people instead of myself. I was living to get a social status instead of living to better understand myself. I only have two guidelines for life. They are to live it the fullest and to live my OWN life. Though even if I help others with their life issues those issues should never become my own. Do I have any other guidelines? No not at all because then I would be dictating my own life. For the friends that I make I don’t have specifics about how they must be. I do not discriminate they can come from whatever background and I will still accept them. They could have any issue in the world and I will still help them through it. The only thing I will not tolerate is if they try to change me or make their own issue mine. If any person tried to force some belief or anything on to me then they will be cut off because that is the number one thing that annoys me. People who try to change others and people who will lie to me consistently. Liars are never allowed and if someone lies to me constantly than they will be forgotten. I wouldn’t hold a grudge over them because if you hold grudges then you will obtain a heavy heart. Instead I will just pretend they do
ReplyDeletenot exist. That is also a way how I deal with my own problems. Instead of getting mad I just forget them and act as if they didn’t happen. And for the person who caused the issue they won’t be thought of anymore. This isn’t to say I don’t get mad because that is a huge lie. I do get mad I just try my hardest to defuse the anger as quickly as possible. A true fact about my life is I don’t allow sadness into it often. Maybe twice a year I will cry about something but besides that I brush away the sadness like it never happened. To sum it all up I live my life in a non-caring way. Where my head is in the clouds and bad situations fly past me. I don’t focus on the past, I keep my mind on the future and I also keep this understanding that life should feel worth living. Also that if your life feels like something you just don’t want maybe there is something in it that you just might need to change.
ReplyDeleteMy motto of life is to keep on trying until I reach my goal. It doesn’t really matter if some people think I am annoying for doing something over and over again because it is my life and who knows if I will die tomorrow or not. I will value every minute of my life and do what I want and do what I need to do to reach my goal. Some people are important in my life and other people pass through my life without leaving a footprint. Even if those people dislike me, it will not affect my life at all. I believe that doing something that annoys other accidentally and reaching my goal is two different matters that are like parallel lines that do not interfere with each other. If you accidentally annoy them, you should apologize, but you shouldn’t give up your goal because it bothered that person; especially if that person that is a pass-by in life. I weigh my goals over people who just appear in my life for a limited amount of time, not because I don’t like those people, but because my goal has a bigger affect in my life.
ReplyDeleteIn my life, there is one thing that I absolutely cannot forgive and that is wasting my time. Other people might not forgive people who lie to them, but I do believe lying is essential to life. If someone told me a lie because if they tell the truth, I will start screaming at them or I will be sad, I’d rather they tell my lies. There are times where if you don’t lie, you will get scolded by someone else. Though, I will be grateful if after a while, they tell me that they lied to me and explain their situation. I cannot forgive people wasting my time because I value my life. I can do a lot of things in an hour; I can eat my lunch, finish most of my worksheet homework, and watch a few minutes of TV. I try to fill in every second of my life, so that if I ever die in an accident, I could say that I don’t regret anything because I’ve done a lot and spent my life, up to that point, to its fullest.
Sometimes, I cannot understand how people act the way they do. I can understand that their environment affects their personality, but I don’t understand why people would be rude or ungrateful to other people. For example, when other people bump into you and you apologize, but they still say like “Watch where you’re going!” I don’t understand that. My parents are not strict with my manner, but I am still a civilized person. I make sure to apologize if I did something wrong to other people and make sure to thank the people if they helped me. If there is something I can help that person with, I will make sure to help them. Even for people I don’t know, I will help them if they are in trouble because it makes me feel good. It makes me feel positive about my life, since I am useful to other people, to this society. I don’t like to feed off of someone and not do something to help them, like a parasite. It makes me feel that I have a purpose to in this world and not just sitting there and doing nothing.
ReplyDeleteI have traveled from place to place since I was young. I was born in America, then brought back to my grandpa, and then brought back to America again. Once I have returned, I went from New York to North Plainfield in New Jersey, to Dunellen. It sounds wrong, but I feel like I’ve been passed along between my families like a luggage. Though now, I have settled. I doubt that I will ever be moving again. I like to travel and see the outside world other than the town that I am trapped in, but Dunellen is still my home. No matter where I travel to, I will still need to return to Dunellen eventually because this is where my parents and friends are. From time to time, I do wonder how my life would be like if I stayed in North Plainfield. I would have different friends, go to a different school, and live in a different house, but I do feel lucky that I did move to Dunellen. Even though Dunellen is small and poor, but at least everyone here is friendly with each other and knows everyone. Even though, the high school lunch really does taste bad, but it is my memory with my friends during lunch time, where we just complain about the lunches. No matter where I might go in the future, Dunellen is my origin and I will always be proud to be from Dunellen.
Life is challenging. It is filled with hardships, difficulties, and adversities that require perseverance and determination to overcome. Despite these obvious difficulties that accompany life, it is also filled with incredible delights and remarkable phenomenons that can be experienced if you decide to live life to the fullest. Life is for living. It is not for being idle and watching while others accomplish their goals and dreams. You cannot let life pass you by and leave you behind. Although this saying may seem cliché, “you only live once,” is an idea that is capable of summarizing the outlook that a person should always have if they wish to make the most of their existence in the world.
ReplyDeleteThe most important things in life to me include my family, my friends and my education. This may seem like the most significant things to everyone else on the planet, but it is most likely because they are the aspects that compose the life of every human being. My family will always come first in every facet of my life. Without my family, I would not have been able to become the person that I have developed into. Additionally, my friends play a significant part of my life. My friends make my life fun and more enjoyable. Although it can also be equally fun to spend time with family, sometimes I just need to spend a period of time away from my kin. My friends help in reducing the stress that accumulates during the school year as their personalities and vibrant temperaments cheer me up and initiate a more care-free nature in me. To continue, my education has always been a very important priority within my life. I have always strived for excellence academically and have even come to expect myself to achieve nothing less of flawlessness; however, this constant need for good grades may have come to be a detrimental factor that is weighing myself down. Because of the stress that I develop concerning school, I have come to realize that it may be causing an unnecessary excess of pressure that results in my life to become less enjoyable. It is essential to always remember that life is not always just designated for hard work, but that it also requires contributions of fun and memorable experiences. My education is the aspect of my life that I am always fretting and worrying about. I do believe that in life, you will always need at least one thing that holds such importance to you that you are constantly emphasizing your need to satisfy the expectations that you hold for yourself. I know that one day my long nights of homework and studying will someday be worth it. Although I do not yet know what this hard work will bring, I am confident enough to keep doing what I am doing in the hopes that I will one day be rewarded for my efforts in some small way.
Throughout the course of my life, I have witnessed numerous actions by people that I do not appreciate, nor do I support. Although I am young, I have seen a great deal of bullies. What defines a bully? This answer is most likely unique to each individual but I feel that it is anyone who believes themselves to be superior to others and who ridicules others for their own personal satisfaction. I feel that no one has the right to degrade another person or to scorn them in anyway. Strong picking on the weak has also been an action of the human kind that repulses me; however, not everyone is like this, and for this I am grateful. I do know that no one is perfect and that we all make our own mistakes. I do not blame anyone for the errors that they have made, but I do feel that they should attempt to make up for them in any way that they can. I even think that we all need to make mistakes in order for us to experience what it is like to be disappointed or to fail because then we will be more driven to do better in the future. Motivation and the desire to become the best person that you can be is something that I know is essential for a happy and satisfied life.
ReplyDeleteOverall, life is a complicated concept to explain and understand. The way I try to live my life will hopefully be beneficial to others. A person should always strive for honesty, courtesy, and kindness if they hope to receive the same respect in turn. The way I live my life is far from perfect, but I hope that if I try to abide by my moral standards and what I believe to be right, I will be able to live a life that is worthy of some remembrance after I am gone. With so many people in the world, it can be difficult to make a significant mark and leave a lasting imprint on someone. It is this fact that helps me comprehend the importance of living a life that will eventually result in the world becoming a better place. Although it is important for an individual to obtain their own personal goals, it is just as vital to incorporate the desire to enhance someone else’s life. If you have managed to do this, I feel that you would have been living a life that is worthwhile.
High school is a time when most people figure out themselves, or in other words, they know what type of person they want to become when they get older. For me, this moment came this year. I can now say that I know what type of person I want to be in life and I can attribute this to the people around me and my own choices.
ReplyDeleteIn high school, especially Dunellen high school there is always something going on around you and there is really no way to not know what is happening. Sometimes that is good because when someone does something well, people should know. This is because they deserve recognition for doing something well. However this unfortunately goes both ways and if you do something that is bad, most people if not all will know about it. But one thing that I value in myself is that when all this information is going around, I stay out of it because there is nothing you can assure is true. When one person says something about another, I don’t try and make the situation worse.
Things that I look for in a friend are pretty simple. First and foremost I try and choose my friends based on how they act. If they act like they are better than everyone else all the time than I can assure you that they are not someone I want to be around. I’m not saying that anyone that is good at something I won’t be friends with I am simply saying that they shouldn’t have to act differently if they are better than normal at something.
Things that I am absolutely unwilling to bend on are racism and bullying. All around we see both of these things and neither should be tolerated ever because of how badly they affect this world. The school system is unfortunately unkind in the aspect of bullying because the big fish and always going to act better or tougher than the small one. It’s not the small one’s fault but because maybe they are not exactly the same as the other people they are unrelentingly ridiculed. The worst part of bullying is that there is no surefire way to stop it because of the circumstances. The person being bullied is afraid to go to anyone out of fear of making it worse and the most of the time when they do ask for help, it does get worse. Racism is a completely different problem and it is even harder to tackle because it is even more widespread. Not only one group of people are racists and not every person is racist. However, some groups that are accused of being racist aren’t necessarily racist. This makes it very difficult to single out those that are committing the act from those who are innocent. One thing that really annoys me is when someone is desperate for attention because they fail to realize that everyone knows that what they want, so in the end they will get none. Attention should only be given to those that deserve it or can handle it because too many people just end up craving more and more of it. It is seen in celebrities all the time that they can’t handle all the attention so they try and leave the public eye but it doesn’t work. It doesn’t work because they already tried too hard to get all the attention in the first place. Faults that are unforgivable in my eyes are the faults that happen on and everyday basis. If I were to get in a car accident I wouldn’t really let it affect me because I know things like that are going to happen in life. I’m not going to hate the person that hit me because he wasn’t intending to hit me with his car; it was simply an accident that can happen out of the blue. Faults are only unforgivable if you don’t care about the person who has the committed the act. If you care about the person enough, nothing should be unforgivable on a reasonable level. My greatest accomplishment thus far has been getting through high school with the types of grades that I have because everyone knows it is not easy to concentrate on school work for four straight years without becoming distracted from schoolwork. My biggest mistake was not getting involved more in school because I don’t think I am as diverse as I could have been. I mainly tuck to sports without getting majorly involved in other clubs in the high school.
ReplyDeleteIt’s been 18 years since I was born and now I’m at the end of my young teenage life this meaning I’m now consider a young adult and I’ve learn many things that I will hope to use to help grow my own kids in the future. I value myself because I know I can become committed to something I want for example like basketball since freshmen year I started to push myself and even when stuff tried to slow me down I still pushed myself, I also value the loyal side of me to what I have around me like my friends I’m loyal to them as much as they are loyal to me, loyalty is one of the keys in life to my eyes because that helps you know you will never be alone and can be a long help when you have others against you, Another thing I value about myself would be the way I think about my surroundings, to me nothing gets passed me and when stuff happens I will analyze it and I will go the best way it suits me. And above all nothing is more valuable about me is the self-respect I have for myself I do things that I will enjoy and avoid the things I won’t and keep myself safe from any dangerous things. To me a friend is someone I could trust but never rely on them with things I see them as someone who I will be there for them but I don’t expect things back unless they decide too, what I look in a friend the most is loyalty because it’s a nice way to know they won’t stab you in the back when your back is turn and instead help you fight the people in front of you, another thing I look for in a friend is to have many things in common not the kind of common things you would have with a girl but the things that you both like to do no matter how many times you do it. As my time comes to an end in high school I notice that people lose there so call “friends” because everyone start judging others in high school and start avoiding the less popular for the most popular, this is why I don’t believe in many friends I only believe in people that I can call brothers because I know they would fight along my side and will pick me up if I’ve fallen the same way I would to them.
ReplyDeleteThe things that annoy are the people around me who are all just judgmental or talk too much about someone but act differently to their face, I also get annoyed when people have no common sense and do things or say things without thinking, at last the thing I hate the most is the disrespect many people have against their own family or the way they rely on their mother and father to do things for them yet show them nothing but disrespect at the end and that’s something that annoys me, that parents have become so soft with their kids and have them become the opposite of what they want them to be. To me not many things are unforgivable since it always forgive but never forget to my eyes and this is why I think anything is forgivable but it takes the right person to see beyond the pain they have cause to forgive that person, the example of my father who my mom left when I was 2 because he mistreated her it so many painful ways and cheated on her countless of times with other women that is something I would forgive since it has things to do with my mom but I would never forget those story’s my mom have told me of him, he’s never going to be part of my life and I will never let him try too because ever since little my mom has only taught us things that will benefit us when we are on our own since my whole family besides the people I live with right now are all living with no care of anyone else in the family . My greatest accomplishment in life is to make it to senior year and hope to graduate and go to college but that’s not all my other accomplishment in life is to live this long to see my 18th birthday because life can take turns and end tomorrow and I’m glad I haven’t had that tomorrow. I don’t tend to live with regrets but the few mistakes I’ve made are with girls I could have had a chance with but messed it up or the skills I would had if I practice more are those things that I wouldn’t go back and fix because it’s what made me who I am today and I just got to keep moving forward from here on.
ReplyDeleteOne of the biggest mistakes I’ve made in the past few months was screwing over someone who loved me for me. Not because I was funny or always played around, he loved me for being goofy and remembering who I was no matter what got in the way. Many people may say our relationship was toxic, a waste of time, that we were better off not together anymore but how can someone just give up on someone the way I did? I honestly gave up, stopped trying and that’s what broke us and caused so much heart ache. I did the unthinkable and no one will ever forgive me for it, I cheated and broke everyone around me. Lies and scandals were unfolded. People that weren’t even involved got hurt. All the truth came out and peoples business got aired out. At least half a dozen people had gotten hurt from what happened, because of what I did.
ReplyDeleteSome say I have some nerve to write about this but guess what… SCREW THEM. I know because of my actions I lost someone who genuinely cared for me and about me. A part of me will always love him and care about him. Deep down I know that he knows what I’m talking about and how I feel, he might not know how to deal with it but that’s okay. I wish forgetting about him was that easy like the push of a button, but that’s not life. No matter what had happened, he told me I love you and nothing will change, I did the unthinkable and ruined it. I meant everything to him, and not I’m anything. I’m gone. I’m just the girl that broke his heart in his memory now, not the girl he loves.
The memories will always be here in my mind, the good, the bad, and the ugly. All those special moments we had together will never be lost. When he was lost about his family or when I had lost someone in my family, we always guided one another and life was okay. I always felt safe. The first time we meet in can still remember, our first dinner, our first movie; I don’t forget anything. After everything that we had been through together I was the reason everything fell apart. I am sorry for what I did and I regret making this mistake because now I’m all alone. This past year has been a rollercoaster but it was fun while it lasted and I guess it was my time to get off the ride.
Everyone has a certain characteristic about them that makes the person who they are. As for me, I have many strict values that I go by day by day. The things I value in myself are my drive to get the things that I want, and my ability to be compassionate towards others. I believe that having these values will get me far in life. If I didn’t have these values I would probably be a very mean person with no personality, I don’t have the will to be really mean to someone, it’s just unnecessary. When it comes to my friends I get very picky. Life so far has taught me not to trust everybody you encounter, they may seem nice but in the long run they will end up betraying you. That has happened to me on many occasions, especially in high school. The things I look for in a friend are loyalty, humor, honesty, and most importantly we have to have things in common. If someone doesn’t have these qualities, than they will be ineligible to be my friend. Everyone has a pet peeve; my pet peeves are the word DITTO. That word annoys me to the point of tears. It is a word that shouldn’t exist. Another thing that annoys me is bad grammar, bad breath, smelly hair, and smelly person in general, disorganization, and kiwis. All of these things annoy me to the extent where I’ll just go insane.
ReplyDeleteThere are some things in this life that I will never be okay with; the first one that comes to mind is stealing from my parents. I will never in my life on this earth steal from my parents. I know people who just go into their parents wallets and just take money. I don’t have the will to do that to my own mother. After all, she raised me and paid God knows how much for me while growing up. So there is no reason at all for me to steal from my family. They’ve given me everything I wanted and more, and by stealing from them is unjustifiable in my eyes. Other things I can forgive though, if someone commits a fault and owns up to it than they are for forgiven in my eyes. For example, of someone lies about something, like if someone is unfaithful to their partner, I can see how most people would never get over this. But if the person is willing to change, and work hard for their forgiveness than I think it is forgivable, at least in my eyes it is. Something that I won’t be able to forgive someone on is if someone mistreats a family member, like your mom, dad, grandma, or grandpa. I don’t know how you can hurt
your own family; your family will always love you no matter how many mistakes you make. By hurting them is just unforgivable.
ReplyDeleteLying is never a good thing to do, but in many cases you have to lie to protect the ones you love. For example, if I knew something was going to put my mother in danger if she knew about it then I won’t tell her just to protect her. But lying shouldn’t be done every day just for the hell of it.
My greatest accomplishment had to be when I entered a jazz band competition as a jazz vocalist and ending up winning 1st place superior in the whole competition. That moment was the most exhilarating moment of my whole life. I couldn’t even handle the amount of emotion that came from that, I also was asked to audition for a jazz band down in Texas by one of the judges. That was my greatest accomplishment. But even the best people have their off days. I can’t count how many things I regret doing in my short life. The thing I regret the most was leaving the greatest guy I could have ever been with for someone who wasn’t worth my time. I regret to this day, the feeling of guilt looms over me like a never ending black cloud. I’m not motivated to do anything anymore. One mistake makes me feel like this and it’s excruciating. Plus, I discovered my faults too late. I should have thought everything through so I wouldn’t be in this depressive state. It just sucks knowing you can’t do anything about it because you’re the one to blame. Especially in this small school you can’t seem to get away from your troubles, they follow you everywhere you go. It’s like a twilight zone.
Life. Life is a big question mark. No one really knows what to expect from it because no one has lived one before. You only get to live once and that’s it. You can’t learn from your own mistakes, but rather you learn from others. It’s hard for you to actually live life perfectly. It’s actually impossible. There are two different types of people in the world. People that succeed and people that fail. We are humans, we make mistakes. The people that succeed learn to live with their mistakes. The people that fail get stuck on the things they did wrong and never get through that hurdle in life. Sometimes it sucks to make a mistake but you have to live through them. I see people make mistakes every day. It might be someone getting a question wrong in school or it could be something as bad as someone making a life altering decision for the worse. Sometimes the mistake can haunt you for your whole life. You just need to brush it off your shoulders and act like it’s not even there. Why worry about something that is in the past. You can’t change it so don’t worry about it. The only reason why you feel bad about your mistakes is because other people make fun of you for them. Let them make fun of you but don’t worry about it. They make mistakes to. It just makes them feel better about themselves.
ReplyDeleteThe mistakes you make in life are only for your benefit. What you learn in life is priceless. That’s how I live my life. It’s the experience that counts. When you are born you have no knowledge. Through life you obtain the knowledge you need through all the experiences that they go through. You have to live life to the fullest. That is the only way you can obtain knowledge to get you through the rest of your life. Humans should understand that mistakes will happen. There is no possible way that someone can avoid mistakes their whole life. That’s perfection, and no one is perfect. No matter how much they want to believe they aren’t and that’s the honest truth. Think of life as just one big test that you can take over again as much as you want. The only thing is that you know nothing about it the first time you take it. You get your scores back and you completely fail. Now you know what answers are right and which ones are wrong. The next time you take it you still make some mistakes but you get a better score. Your mistakes aren’t as bad as before. You keep making mistakes until you can actually pass the test with the minimal amount of mistakes. That’s what life is. It is just one big test that you want to pass, but the only way to do that is to make mistakes.
Mistakes. That is my outlook on life. It is better to make mistakes rather than to avoid them. You need to try to be the best you can be if you want to be the best. That is the only way that you can succeed. I walk down the street sometimes and see people that don’t take risks in their lives. It’s not that hard, the only thing is that they are afraid to take those risks, but who isn’t scared. I’m scared to take risks sometimes but it’s a part of life. It’s something that you can’t afford to miss. I know it’s hard for most people but your opportunity is out there to succeed. If you get over that first bump in the road then you will be fine. If can only get started then the rest is easy for you. You will achieve your greatness if you just take that first step. My outlook on life is very simple. Just take your first risk and all the others will be easy. Your first mistake is your worst because you don’t know what to expect. After the first mistake the others will be like nothing happened. The mistakes in life are what propel you in life, not your accomplishments. Your accomplishments and success come from all the mistakes that you make. Only through those can you really be great.
This is how I live my life. I value how I stand out from everyone else in a crowd. I can’t be ignored easily, and I like how I can be so unique compared to most people. I also value how I can be a klutz. Yeah sure, it screws things up for me. On the other hand, it brightens up other people’s days. They can be happy that they didn't embarrass themselves like how I did, so they can go on with their day be grateful for their life. What I look for in a friend is a general description. I like friends who are nice. I look for people that I can talk to easily and can be expressive with. I don’t care about age, gender, or religion. I don’t even mind if we don’t have the same hobbies. Friends with different interests give me a larger perspective on the world. A friend with similar interests gives me a conversation partner to discuss about what we share in common. As long as you can stand with my over the top weirdness, than we can be friends. Things I am unwilling to bend to is breaking the law that God gives us and supporting the death penalty. As a regular Christian, I am obligated to do what the bible says. I can’t break the laws that are decreed inside, just like any other Christian. However, many people no matter what religion, debate about the death penalty. I’m not sure about your opinion, but I refuse to support the taking of another man’s life. That person that is on death row could be a parent, or a sibling, or a wonderful spouse. If the person is that evil, then lock them up and let them rot in jail. All life is precious and no ‘noble’ cause justifies the taking of this gift. Things that annoy me are grammatical mistakes and people who are frustrating. People are all beautiful, until they start texting me with horrible grammar. I can understand an honest mistake, I make a lot of grammatical mistakes, but if someone makes a mistake every couple of sentences than I get frustrated. It’s like an OCD reaction when I see bad grammar. In addition, I hate it when somebody uses purposely try to get on another person’s nerves. They become so insufferable, that I get angry even if they aren't talking to me. People who don’t cooperate and do everything in their power to make others miserable make me furious. I find a lot of things forgivable, especially if someone apologizes. However, if someone does not apologize then I can’t forgive them. Now please don’t mistake me; I’m not saying that if someone murders another and says, “I’m sorry,” that I’ll let them off the hook. Yes, I will forgive them because of my Christian values. No, I will not let them escape justice because they must pay for their crime. The bible stresses the importance of forgiveness. However, it also stresses how sin, no matter how small, must always be punished. Lying is something that I don’t find necessary. I prefer the blunt truth. If my dog was run over, I want to be told. If my mom got cancer, I would want to know. I don’t like when people sugar coat things because they’re concerned about my feelings. I’d be more upset if I was lied to than if I was given the harsh truth. My greatest accomplishment is, well, nothing. I believe that I haven’t gotten that far in life. Nothing that I have done so far has really been great or very noteworthy; so I’m content with waiting until I am older and accomplish something that I can actually call, “A great achievement”. My greatest accomplishment is just around the corner, waiting to happen. My biggest mistake was letting my parents walk in the dark with my dog. The moment I saw them outside, I had a bad feeling, I even contemplated with going with them, just to be safe. Instead, I took a forty minute shower. That night, my family decreased by one number when my dog Patches was hit by a car. I can only blame myself for not trusting my gut instinct and warning my parents; maybe even stopping them. All the pain, sorrow, and heartache my family experienced, and still experience, could have been prevented by me. My biggest mistake? Not saving the youngest of my family from her untimely death.
ReplyDeleteIt was once said, that life is short, and there’s no time for fussing and fighting. That is the way I try to approach life; trying to find something positive that happened every day. If I have a bad day, I always try to look for something good that happened, even if it was the smallest thing. If that doesn’t work, I try to think to myself that tomorrow will be much better,. As strange as this might sound, it is better than complaining about everything. The last thing I want to become is a miserable person who puts everyone down. Sometimes though, this trying to be positive can be a bit too much. For instance, when something stresses or overwhelms me, it is easy to just not think about it so the stress doesn’t get to me. By doing that though, I believe that means I am not trying hard enough to deal with conflicts. This would mean in the future, I wouldn’t be prepared with whatever might be ahead of me.
ReplyDeleteOne thing I value in myself is that I try to be different than everyone else I know. I pride myself in having different interests than a lot of people I know, listening to music that no one listens to anymore, et cetera. For instance, while a lot of my friends enjoy spending time trying on pretty clothes, I would rather spend time figuring out how to use a new piece of technology or checking out an unfamiliar musical instrument.. In a way, I feel cool for having those different interests. If I figured out that someone has similar interests, I would of course be happy that I can relate to someone in a certain way. At the same time though, I can’t help being a bit upset that I didn’t have that interest to myself. Another trait I value in myself is my musical ability. It is my passion in life, and I don’t know what I would do without it. I can carry a tune, and I know when a note is sharp or flat. It is also very easy for me to figure out how to play any melody by ear because of my perfect pitch. . Normally, I don’t like bragging, what when it comes to knowing what key a song is in without having to look at sheet music, I just can’t help pointing it out When I am surrounded by people who don’t have this trait, it almost makes me feel very smart.
Although there are certain things I value in myself, there are a lot of things I feel I can improve. For instance, I can be very shy, at times. If I were somewhere where everyone was engaging in conversation, i would be apprehensive about starting one. If I needed help with something, I would be afraid to ask for it, because I don’t like to sound demanding. The strange thing about this is that I can’t stand shyness. I can also be very lazy and self-centered. I tend to not put a lot of effort in doing what I don’t necessarily want to do such as school work, so I can just get it finished and do the things I want to do. I tend to act antisocial when I have nothing to do, and I unfortunately enjoy solitude a bit too much.
I consider myself to be selectively easy-going. Most of the time, I rarely get annoyed with people even if they annoy everyone else. The only time someone annoys me is if they were to tell me what to do,, corrected me on something, or said what I could and couldn’t do.In that case, I would want to prove them wrong, and there is no better feeling than that. Other than that, I try my best to live my life positively.
My mother always tells me that if you respect others you will always be respected no matter what. That is what I try to do and be everyday just like my mother. She means the world to me, she has been through a lot and every day I try to treat her the best possible way that a women can be treated. I always told my mom that she is my mother and my father and no matter what she is always going to be there. Also someone that has impacted my life so much is my grandmother. Even though she is not with my family and I no more she was the best and she treated me like a man always that is what made me the man I am today. In my personal view friends come and go and that is how life is. But friends should always be there for you to help you on anything you need and should also be there for you when you’re down and even in your greatest moments. A friend should just be a friend and should be there when you don’t have anyone else to talk to but them, to cheer you up when you’re sad and to party when you’re good. Something that I will never depend on is people in general because they could say something and then when you confront them about it they will tell you another. I hate it when people are all up in my face to talk to me about something it annoys me so much also when people touch me a lot and when people look at you and stare you down it pisses me off and the last thing that annoys me is when people are all up in your business. Everyone in life has done something wrong and especially myself I mean I believe in second chances. If I told you we were going to chill but then I left you hanging for something that actually was important than just to chill that’s forgivable in my eyes or when you joke around with your friends and if he/she said something personal and you said something back and then he/she gets mad I mean that forgivable in my eyes if you can’t handle the heat it than you can’t be mess with. I never done something that bad that no one has forgiven me about. Also everyone in this world lies I know I have especially to my mother or my father but things that I have lied about wasn’t very necessary. It’s not good to lie but sometimes you have to. A good situation to lie is to protect a friend or to save your own butt. My greatest accomplishment was back in elementary school when I skipped 4th grade to go straight to 5th grade my mother was there that first day of school when I went straight to 5th she was so proud of me that she even cried and seeing my mother that emotional because I did that with the accomplishments of my school grades made my entire day way better and after she invited me to some good burger king so that was the best day ever. The biggest mistake ever was to never say that last good bye to my grandmother before she passed away it hurts me a lot because the day that she passed away she told my sister something but could not finish what she said I miss her a lot. There are things in life that everyone does that they regret and I don’t regret nothing because everything you do is done for a reason and it is meant to be that way.
ReplyDeleteI would like to believe that I live my life in a relatively normal way. Of course, like all others, I have qualities and values that make me stand out from the rest. Although limited, there are parts of myself that I find valuable. First, I find my dedication to strive with excellence in all that I take part of admirable. Although occasionally I am unsuccessful, I always try my hardest to be the best possible. I find myself proving this quality true in the significant aspects of my life, including drumming, school and relationships with those close to me.
ReplyDeleteIn a friend, I look for someone that is really willing to be there for me and do whatever it takes to put all they can into the friendship. By that, I mean that a friend should be someone that will help out their friend with no matter what. Often I come into contact with people that do not give in a friendship as much as they take. These selfish friends demand all the advice, attention and assistance that you can give, but offers none of what they receive. People like this can be found constantly turning a conversation around to their concerns, problems and feelings. I really value my friends that avoid this type of behavior. I believe that true concern for someone’s struggles and a willingness to assist them through the hard times is something only a true friend comes equipped with. In a friend I also search for a sense of humor, listening skills and more importantly, acceptance. If a friend cannot respect my personality, behaviors and choices, they are not a friend in the slightest.
There are few ideas that I refuse to change my stances on. Often I am a very open-minded person, but some things are just unacceptable in my eyes, or I have already set myself in my ways. One thing I refuse to bend on is the idea of cheating on a significant other. That is absolutely unacceptable in my eyes. If you are in a relationship, it’s because you want to be with that person exclusively, right? If you don’t want to be with just them, break up with them! It’s absolutely ridiculous. If anyone were to cheat on me, they would be history faster than you can say “anything.” I will never change my mind on that. Secondly, I will not change my stance on me, personally, drinking or doing drugs, especially while being a minor. Of course I have no problem with other people doing these things. I personally, though, don’t feel it necessary or appropriate for me to do drugs or drink. I’ve seen how these things can ruin people’s lives and even the people surrounding the users. There is also a long history of alcoholism in my family and I can recognize and addictive trait in myself. I wouldn’t be surprised if I were to find myself a part of that lifestyle, I could easily become addicted to any substance. Because of this, I chose to stay distant from any drug, including alcohol, and plan to keep myself that way into my adulthood.
Often people tell me that it is different when you are older and it is perfectly fine to have a drink every now and again, but that still doesn’t appeal to me. One or two drinks can lead to many drinks, or bring on that feeling of drunkenness that many people crave. If I don’t know the feeling, I can’t crave it, right? I’d rather not pollute my life with the potential of depending on such a socially acceptable drug. I don’t like the effects it has on those around me, even those of age. It’s often an upsetting scene to see those that you truly care about in a drunken rage or stumbling around, and then they don’t even remember it in the first place. They’ve made their choice to drink and I can respect that, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t affect me or how I feel about the situation. I would rather my friends and family in the future not be affected by how I act under the influence, or the fact that I choose to ever be under the influence in the first place. I plan on having kids one day and I don’t want them to think that drinking is a cool thing to do because their mother does it. I don’t think it’s a cool thing, honestly. I see it as more of an excuse to have a good time, which I can find in many other things.
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