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Live & Learn and Pass It On: "I Have Learned. .
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As the year come to a close, I would like to share one
last piece of literature with you. Below
you will find The Dash Poem by Linda Ellis- one of my favorites. Read and consider the poem carefully- the
simple message is definitely thought provoking. . . after you’ve finished reading, respond to
the prompt below.
I read of a man who stood to speak
at the funeral of a friend.
He referred to the dates on her tombstone
from the beginning...to the end.
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He noted that first came the date of her birth
and spoke of the following date with tears,
but he said what mattered most of all
was the dash between those years.
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For that dash represents all the time
that she spent alive on earth...
and now only those who loved her
know what that little line is worth.
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For it matters not, how much we own;
the cars....the house...the cash.
What matters is how we live and love
and how we spend our dash.
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So think about this long and hard...
are there things you'd like to change?
For you never know how much time is left.
(You could be at "dash midrange.")
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If we could just slow down enough
to consider what's true and real,
and always try to understand
the way other people feel.
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And be less quick to anger,
and show appreciation more
and love the people in our lives
like we've never loved before.
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If we treat each other with respect,
and more often wear a smile...
remembering that this special dash
might only last a little while.
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So, when your eulogy's being read
with your life's actions to rehash...
would you be proud of the things they
say about how you spend your dash?
Writing Prompt- Consider the title of this blog post
“Live & Learn and Pass It On”. Write
about the most valuable lesson you have learned over the course of your life
and share it in your response. Explain
how you came to learn this lesson and how it has changed your life. Most importantly, think and write about this
lesson will help you move foreword and do the most with your "dash".
I've learned a very valuable lesson recently. In fact, it all happened last night. I'm going to Disney with the marching band and I'm fearing something that I've been thinking for a long time now. My family isn't the happiest, we have our ups and our downs, our happy moments and our sad moments. Divorce is defined as to legally dissolve one's marriage with someone. Everyone has that one fear and when everyone's happy it goes away. When everything is rocky the same fear comes back. Except I don't think it's going to go away. I went shopping last night and I got clothes for the trip and the summer. It ended up being over $300. Did I wish for it to be that expensive? No. My dad was furious and yelled at my mom in the store. She defended me and took all the blame. My dad insulted my music taste and my taste in clothing. We went out to dinner after and my dad walked out. That same fear will now not leave due to listening to the countless "danielle stop it wasn't your fault" Seeing something that I potentially caused literally ruined my night. I'm scared to go home in fear that my nightmare might come true. I'm afraid that if I am away for too long, what will I come home too? I am constantly worrying about what might happened. Last night I learned never to take anything for granted because it will hurt you in the end. I hope it doesn't come true but there is always that fear that will never go away. I need to learn to see what opportunities are there and to take every single one of them because you might not have the chance later. With this trip coming up in a little scared with what's going to happen when I'm not home. I'm worried about leaving my brother when he might need me. With all of this surfacing I know that I need to think before I speak and try not to hurt people because I know this will have long term effects. The dash between those two numbers will always be so short and we don't know what we have until it's gone. I hope to live those years between those two dates to the fullest even if there's a couple of bad ones. Hopefully it will all work out in the end but you can never be so sure of what might happen.
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ReplyDeleteThe most valuable lesson I have learned over the course of my life is to not judge people. Everybody in society just wants to fit in and be like everybody else. I mean there’s nothing wrong with that; however the people that want to stand out and be themselves are getting judged. I don’t understand why people judge other people for being themselves; it doesn’t make any sense to me. If Susie wants to wear a hot pink shirt with hamburgers on it let her. I mean who cares, by Susie wearing that shirt it’s not affecting you in any way shape or form. For instance, when I was in third and fourth grade my fashion was a little crazy. I mean I felt confident in myself, I may have looked insane, but I was confident. Anyway, I loved to wear high top neon socks. I mean this wouldn’t have been a problem if I wasn’t wearing flats. I also loved to wear leggings and shorts. I mean that was my go to outfit in 3rd grade. See people didn’t make fun of me, but my close friends would like to crack jokes and be like Tori what are you wearing. I mean I would be wearing Nike basketball shorts with leggings neon socks and flats. My outfit may have been crazy, but why did my friends have to say something about it? Like of course I want my friends to be honest with me and tell me if something doesn’t look good on me. However, sometimes if your friend feels very confident in something they're wearing you shouldn’t say anything. I mean how was me dressing crazy and different affecting my friends? Well the answer was it wasn’t affecting them. That’s what I learned by that, I learned to not judge people for who they are or what they wear. I mean in high school everybody has their own style. They may dress in the most insane way possible. However do not, not be their friend because of that. My advice to you is to get to know their personality and who they are first. Somebody you may have never seen yourself talking to in your life, could end up being your best friend and have the best personality out there. All in all, don’t judge somebody without getting to know them first.
Tori, I completely agree with you. You should never judge a book by its cover because they have feelings too. You should be able to wear whatever you want and not have to worry about being judged.
DeleteI agree with you Tori. You should be able to feel confident in what you wear without anyone judging you.
DeleteTori I agree with you that people shouldn't have to be judged for being themselves. You're absolutely right when you say that the way you dress and express yourself isn't affecting anyone else. I strongly live by this rule of not judging people too.
DeleteI really liked the title of this article, “Live & Learn and Pass It On.” You live through something, you learn from it, and then pass on your knowledge to someone else. I think a really valuable lesson I have learned in life, is to watch your back and your surroundings. What I mean by this is to pick the right friends and relationships. Don't hang out with people that are going to do drugs or take advantage of you. I've been in bad situations with old friends. They got me in a lot of trouble in the past just because I was with them. Ive lived through it and learned that these are not my friends. Now my cousin who is thirteen she asked me about these things all the time. I always tell her if you're friends are doing something bad get away from them, or if a boy is being “annoying” if you don't feel comfortable say no and leave. I don't want her to make any bad mistakes so I try to teach her as much as possible. I think before people do anything, they should stop and think first. This type of situation happened with my brother, but didn't work out. He tried to teach me because he tells me this all the time to be careful with my surroundings. This was about ten years ago, when I used to not live in a great area. My brother had friends that did drugs. He had no idea of it, and one day he was with his friends and they started doing them in front of my brother. He was shocked, so he started walking home. On his way home he was stopped by a cop and asked why he smelt funny. My brother was terrified because he didn't do anything wrong. Even though he left, he should have been more cautious and known that they were bad people to have as friends. He's teaches me to not make mistakes like he did. Life is this cycle where we live, learn, and pass it on.
ReplyDeleteBrianna, I agree with what you are saying. You should always look around you and choose whats best for you.
DeleteBrianna, I completely agree with everything that you said. I'm sure it's extremely relatable to many individuals. You should always see and chose your best option for you.
DeleteThe most valuable lesson I have ever learned is to be yourself in life. People always tell you to be like this person or tell you to take this job. But I see myself as doing whatever I want in the future. I want to choose what I want to be because I want to enjoy it with all of my life. I see that people take a great influence on famous people on the internet or from tv shows. But I want to be the person that is different from everyone else. People from all over the world are different is someway. Maybe it is because of the personality they have. Or it is what the person loves to do and they are great at it. But I want to be someone who can be noticed by what I do and it influences kids and adults. I want to hear that I am important to the actions and choices I have made with what I have done. One person I see as themselves is my dad. My dad is funny, courageous, brave, and himself. When he was in a place with us and it was boring, he would act all silly and make jokes to make us laugh and smile. It worked, and he always did that when we were little. Another example is my mom. Now she is someone who is herself. She is fun, wild, but is also a mother. But I see another life lesson I have learned, was never judge people by how they look. People mostly everywhere will judge you because of your looks, not your personality. But, your personality is what makes you, you. I wished this happened now, but it still goes on. I was judged when I was young. I was very shy, fat, and kind of weird. People made fun of me and mad jokes to me. But that didn’t stop me. So I started to change, and now people see me in a different way. You see, people who look weird aren’t weird. They are themselves and you can’t change that. I learned to not judge people for who they are or what they wear. But to how they act in their personality that they have. Also I want to be myself in any way possible in my entire life. Those are the two most important life lessons I have learned.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you Anthony. A very important life lesson is by being yourself. People should be who they are and not someone that they think they should be.
DeleteThe most valuable lesson I’ve learned is to really enjoy the time you spend with other people. I have come to learn this lesson not too long ago. For the most part, my cousins and I on my mom’s side are incredibly close. We grew up together and have enjoyed it. One of my mom’s brothers didn’t live close however, he lived in Missouri with his wife and kids. Not too long ago, in July, one of his sons got married. It was a chance to actually get to know my cousins that I haven’t seen since I was little. Everyone had so much fun at his wedding, but in the usual rush of a wedding, I didn’t even get to have a conversation with him, or his brothers. The rest of my cousins and I didn’t spend much time in Missouri, we only stayed for the wedding. In November, the weekend before Thanksgiving, my cousin who had just got married four months ago, had passed away. No one knew it was coming, no one was prepared for such an emotional struggle. It was just like a wake up call to me that basically left me in shock. I realized that I needed to spend as much time as I can with the people that I love. I was so heartbroken that I barely knew my cousin and now I would never get to know him. This lesson taught me to really get to know the people I’m around because you never know what will happen. It’s still hard sometimes when I mention how excited I am to go to another wedding. What if the next wedding ends as badly as the last one? I’m always left with that constant feeling that won’t go away, when I think about how close some of my cousins are to getting married. This lesson will help me move forward by teaching me to enjoy spending time with people I love and to not take advantage of it.
ReplyDeleteA lesson I've learned throughout the year is to be less stubborn. Throughout the year I feel that when I believed that I was right in something, that was it. I JAD to be right. But what I've learned is that in a disagreement, it doesn't matter if you're right or wrong. It really doesn't. What matters is winning. There is a difference between winning and being right. If you go to the end of the Earth to try and be right, so what. Maybe in the end you do end up right. Maybe the other person still doesn't believe you. So what. Win. Winning is where you just say the other person is right. Be considerate. They'll be happy, and inside, you're the bigger man. They just don't know. And now you've won. There is no more argument and you keep your friend, and he's happy. Throughout the year it's been tough doing this. Sometimes I STILL have to be right. I'm still learning to. Because really... Does it REALLY matter you were safe on base in wiffleball? Do you really need to get that specific on rules? Who cares? Will that game really change your life? Well, maybe... If you try too hard to be right.
ReplyDeleteJosh I agree with you. Being less stubborn and being the bigger person can make lots of things better. But in some cases you shouldn't be the bigger person.
DeleteOver the last two years I have learned a very valuable lesson that I will always keep with me forever. Being in middle school and high school have both taught me lessons that I will always remember. Over the years, everyone has been growing up and changing themselves to find who they really are. As people grow up, sometimes their personalities change and it can affect the way you look at others. Growing up, I had a friend that lived in the same neighborhood as me. Me and my other friends would hang out all the time doing everything together, like to the point where we felt that we couldn’t do anything without each other. As I got older, my perspective on her started to change. All of us started to see her as a totally new person. I started to see how her attitude was really towards other and how she treated others in general. I started to see that she would get really aggravated at the smallest things we do. Also, noticed that she would always be rude for no apparent reason and get into everyone’s business. One memory that I have of her acting this way was over my friends house. We were all having a good time playing outside with nerf guns. She came over and wanted to play the game with us. As we were playing, my friends little brother shot her with the toy gun without her knowing. Out of nowhere she started to scream and yell at him. He was saying sorry to her but she wasn’t paying any attention and out of anger she slapped him right across the face. I couldn’t believe that she did that for the fact that he was three years younger than her and that the only way she felt to resolve the problem was to hit him. I felt so bad when I saw him run inside crying, but it really disgusted me when she tried to act like she did nothing wrong to him. She started asking me things like why is he crying and why are they going in so early? All I was thinking about doing was running inside and giving my friends little brother a big hug. I didn’t even want to be around her anymore. How could she do that to anyone? I started thinking what if that was her kid? Would she do the same to her own spouse? After that day we always tried to avoid her as much as possible. I didn’t want a friend that was treating my friends and I so disrespectfully. After this experience, I learned who my real friends were. They are the one’s that are respectful to you and kind no matter what. Real friends don’t treat you like total garbage. You start to see who’s going to be their for you and who’s not. Overtime you’re going to end up losing friends but it’s worth it in the end if it means getting rid of the fake friends.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you, Sam. You should always treat other people respectfully and not overreact over little things. You're supposed to have fun with your friends instead of get aggravated with them.
DeleteI totally agree with you Sam. You should always understand who is a good friend and who is a bad or fake friend. Always keep an eye on what they do and how their personality is so that you can make the decision if you think it's best to befriend them. Always befrined people you feel you can trust and will always be there for you. If that person gets angry easily or lies, it would be best to not befriend them, since they could cause many problems that could affect you. True friends are the ones that are always there to support you and respect you.
DeleteOne very valuable life lesson I learned is to work hard and to the best of your ability.Working to the best of your ability is how you accomplish things in general.If you want to pass a test then your way of working to the best of your ability is by studying for the test.All the people that have become influential figures such as Mark Zuckerburg,Steve Jobs,and Bill Gates who are the founders of major corporations such as Apple,Microsoft,and Facebook.They all created major inventions such as facebook,the iphone,and created Windows programming.This was achieved by working to the best of their ability.They were idealists.Their is many idelists like these people today.In order to become influential like that you have to work hard in school,and in college as well.If you don’t work as best as you can and don’t try your hardest you won’t be able to make it big today.Big business tycoons have to work overtime everyday to become successful.They work hard until they become successful.Committing yourself to something you want to accomplish in life is by working to the best of your ability.You have to be committed in order to find job and to make good money and to be someone in life.Mark Zuckerburg and Steve Jobs were committed to their inventions or ideas such as facebook and the iphone.If they weren’t then there wouldn’t be any iPhone.Commitment is what makes people accomplish their dreams, its what makes people rich and powerful and prominent figures. My main moral is to work to the best of my ability and to achieve my dreams. I plan on going to a good college such as NYU,but I know I will have to work to the best of my ability in order to go there. Working to the best of my ability makes me a lot more mentally stronger and gives me confidence. It also gives a sense of accomplishment. By living off this life lesson I know that I will become accomplished in the future and have a good-well paying job or even my dream job. If anyone follows this moral they will be able to accomplish anything, and maybe even become the richest in Wall Street.
ReplyDeleteRudy I agree with you. In life you need to work hard to become sucessful. Anything can be achieved with enough effort.
DeleteI have learned a lot of lessons in my life. But, by far the most important lesson I’ve learned is to be patient. Patience is definitely the key to keeping calm and getting a task done right. For example, when you have to put something together and it’s not going to well. You should just be patient and eventually it will hopefully come to you how to build the thing. This happened to me once when I was at my cousin's house. It was a party and we needed to construct a playground system before the party. So me and my brother went outside and looked at all the parts. We skimmed over the directions and than we started to construct it. Everything went smoothly until the last part. We had no idea what we were doing. The party was about to start and we still didn't finish. We started getting angry but then we had patience. We kept trying and with enough time we finished. The person who taught me to be patient was my grandpa. He taught me this while fishing as a younger. I was vacationing down in Florida and we went fishing behind his house. We put our baits in the and instantly we got hits. I kept trying to set the hook as soon as I got a hit and I was unsuccessful. So than my grandpa told me to be patient and when I get a good take to only set the hook. So I waited for a big hit and I waited. After about 1 hour I got the hit I wanted. I set the hook and the fish wason. I reeled it in. It wasn't that big but big enough for me at 10 years old. The reason I caught the fish was because I was patient. A wise man once said “Good things will happen to those who wait.” This quote relates to what I’m trying to explain. If you're patient and wait good things will happen. This is because you won't jump the gun and make a bad choice. This is why being patient is the most important lesson in my life.
ReplyDeleteZach I totally agree with you, a very important lesson in life is to be patient. However, I don't think it is the most important lesson in life. I feel that trying hard is the most important and will get you the furthest in life.
DeleteThrough the course of my life I have learned many lessons. My family helped me understand these lessons each time something evolved. The most valuable lesson i've learned in my life is to just go with the flow. I have come to the realization that everything in life doesn’t always go your way. The sooner you realize the happier you’ll be. Most of the time I don’t let things get to me. I usually just shrug it off and move on. Unfortunately, some things get to me fairly easy. I get mad at the stupidest things sometimes and I get told to let it go and not to worry about it. Not everyone views things the same way as me or you, so I didn’t really know how to let it go. This lesson changed my life in a lot of ways. It taught me to not let anything or anyone get to me no matter what the circumstances are. Life Is supposed to be adventurous and happy no matter what road it takes you on. It teaches you things nobody else could teach you. I often hear people say, “I hate my life,” when it comes to something they don't want to do. Suck it up buttercup because you’re going to do it. Life does not take no for an answer. When you do things you often don't want to do, you tend to enjoy it after awhile. It's kind of like my relationship with swimming. At first I don't want to get in the water and do the warm up, but as soon as I start swimming I start to enjoy myself. It’s the way we are. We dread the things we don't want to do but we do them anyway because we like it. It’s wonderful. This lesson helped me move forward in my life, also. I don't let what people say get to me. I don’t want to sit around and sulk just because someone said something about me. I want to get out and live my life! Learn something new! My family taught me not to let anything get to me. The world is a beautiful place and I often think to myself, “ what is the day going to bring me today?” Life is a mystery that you just have to go with. No one is going to have the answers for you, you have to get out there and find them yourself because it’s definitely not going to get handed to you.
ReplyDeleteThere are many morals and lessons out there that everyone has to share and tell. Each individual thinks of what they think is right and best for themselves, and they see these lessons as the right thing to do. Everyone is taught something different about how life should be and no two people have the same life lessons. The lesson that I think is most valuable that I have learned throughout the course of my life is to not view failure as a bad thing, but as a good thing. Throughout our lives, we are going to experience failure at some point. No human being is perfect and can’t be successful at everything. Failure is something most people see as a terrible thing, but to me, a view it as something very important. I view failure as something that shapes our lives. Something that gives us goals to achieve and help us figure out what we would like to do with our lives. Failure is simply just mistakes we’ve made for something. If we fail at a certain task, we then learn what we had done wrong. We can correct our mistakes for next time and learn from what we had done wrong. This then causes us to make goals for us to achieve to correct all the failures we had made in life, so we then practice and fix every mistake there is so that we can then become successful. I came to learn this lesson when drawing or doing some kind of artsy thing. When i was younger, when I drew things, they weren’t so great. I would look over at my classmates artwork and view it as much better as mine and how it was really cool. This then made me want to be able to draw like that, so i would then draw often and practice until I drew something I felt happy with. I felt failure when I couldn’t draw, so then this caused me to create a goal for myself to achieve. While practicing to become better at drawing, I would fail over and over and over. I would erase and erase and erase. However, from all of this failing and erasing, I would learn not to do that and fix all my mistakes I would make. I would go through all of these failures and they helped by bringing me to success. This lesson helps guide me to live the most I can with my dash. It helps me know what I would like to achieve in my life and how I would like to spend it. It helps bring me to the successful moments in my life which brings me the most happiness. You never do know when that really tiny dash will end. It could end in 50 years, or it could even end tomorrow. You never know what may happen in your life and in the future. You just gotta live it the most that you can before it ends so that you can always remember that your dash was a good one.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with your response of your lesson. Everyone is not perfect and failure is something that we should accept as something to help us be pushed forward. Experiencing failure isn't something to be sad about. Once you fail you can always push yourself to do better the next time. Fixing your mistakes overtime will make you do ten times better the next time.
DeleteOver my lifetime I have gone through many ups and downs just like everyone else. But the difference is what we learn and how we use these ups and downs. Throughout my life I always “judged a book by its cover”. I assumed the worst of people sometimes and as I got older I realized that that isn’t the way anyone should go about their life. If I see people doing something that annoys me I used to think to myself that being annoying is their personality and that they are bad people. With more life experience I see that people may act because of emotions not their personalities because I have done the same. If I put myself in someone's shoes, a lot of the time I understand why they are doing a certain thing. I realized that when I didn’t see if from the other person's’ shoes that I could be hypocritical. When a person acts a certain way and it bothered me I would be annoyed even though in their situation I would do the same. I learned this lesson while I was arguing with my brother one time. My brother and I were both arguing and he did something that made me mad. But right after we had the pointless fight he told me that I would have done the same. From there out I just subconsciously think if I would do the same or for the reason people do something. Knowing this lesson will greatly improve the quality of that dash. In my life if I spend less time thinking negatively and more time seeing where people come from with their actions and seeing their emotions it will improve my life. The whole point of doing anything is to make you or someone else happy and if you’re thinking the worst of people what’s the point of that little dash. If you have an option to make yourself happier and more positive and you aren’t that little dash doesn’t mean anything. It shows you’re taking it for granted. If you spend that little dash making yourself a better person then you spent your time wisely and did it the right way. When people use their dash in a pointless way then there is no point in it.
ReplyDeleteI agree with what you said, Gabby. I used to judge a book by its cover to. But, you have to put yourself in someone else's shoes, to understand them.
DeleteOver the last few years of my life I have encountered and learned so many lessons over time. The most important lesson I have ever learned is to make every opportunity count. Everything that comes you should always take advantage of every opportunity and make the best of it. In my life this has become a huge lesson with soccer and my life. Everytime I step on the field you always have to give a hundred percent because you never know who is watching. Opportunities are like shooting stars they come once in a lifetime but when they do miracles happen. This lesson really hit me about a year ago. My brother was having a tournament and they wanted me to play with them. I said no because I have never played with them and I was just not thinking straight I guess. At the tournament I sat there and my brother went into the goal instead. That game there was about four college coaches watching my brother in goal instead of me. That is when I learned to really take every opportunity and to start to take soccer seriously. This lesson is what really helped me get out of my shell a little bit too. I started to get a more involved in school, sports, and friends. Every opportunity I had I took to it full grant. I have become a more confident person in myself then I have ever been before. This lesson will teach me to move forward in my life and make the best out of every situation. This lesson will teach me to live with no regrets and live life to the fullest. I feel this lesson became huge in my life also at this point. Over the summer my dad every day would always tell me to go out with him, run and work out. But, I was already playing soccer everyday, so I never went. At the end of the summer I went to on ID camp in Virginia for goalkeeper college showcase. It was almost a hundred degrees and I was dying out there. I was completely exhausted afterwards. If I would have went and worked out with my dad I would have been in better shape for that showcase. That is why making every opportunity count is one of the most important lessons I have learned.
ReplyDeleteOne very valuable life lesson I learned is to work hard and to the best of your ability.Working to the best of your ability is how you accomplish things in general.If you want to pass a test, then you should study for it a lot and try your best.The people who study in school are the ones who do best.All the people that have become important influences to me are athletes such as claude Giroux, Alexander Ovechkin, and Patrick Kane. They all are players in the NHL who work very hard and it shows that hard work pays off in the end.They are all role models for many kids who play hockey such as myself.This was achieved by working to the best of their ability.You have to be one of the best hockey players to make it to the NHL, and then to be one of the best players in the league is incredible.In order to become influential like that you have to work hard growing up and through out school. If you don’t work as best as you can and don’t try your hardest you won’t be able to make it big today.Big business tycoons have to work overtime everyday to become successful.They work hard until they become successful.Committing yourself to something you want to accomplish in life is by working to the best of your ability.You have to be committed in order to find job and to make good money and to be someone in life.Alex Ovechkin and Claude Giroux were committed to playing hockey because they have love for the game.Commitment is what makes people accomplish their dreams, its what makes people rich and powerful and prominent figures. My main moral is to work to the best of my ability and to achieve my dreams. I plan on going to a good college such as NYU,but I know I will have to work to the best of my ability in order to go there. Working to the best of my ability makes me a lot more mentally stronger and gives me confidence. It also gives a sense of accomplishment. By living off this life lesson I know that I will become accomplished in the future and have a good-well paying job or even my dream job. If anyone follows this moral they will be able to accomplish anything, and maybe even become a player in the NHL.
ReplyDeleteJakob I agree with you. You do need to work hard to accomplish your goals. Having the confidence and ability to get it done is a major component. Any thing is possible if you work for it. Dreams turn into goals and then they are eventually achieved with hard work. As long as you live the years between the dash to the fullest, everything you worked hard for will add up.
DeleteI completely agree with you Jakob. You must have a good mind set to be able to achieve these goal that you want to achieve. If you thing negatively you won't achieve them. if you think it is impossible it will be until you think it isn't. Anything is possible and always stay confident and have a good mindset when achieving goals.
DeleteI agree with you Jakob. In order to accomplish the goals you wish to receive You must have the confidence to do so. All you have to do from there is put in the hard work.
DeleteI agree with you. So many people think that what they want will just some to them when they want it. But most people need to understand that no matter what you want to get you will have to work for it.
DeleteI agree with you Jakob. You should always work hard in your life too. You can not just be wishing for things to happen. Sometimes you have to make it happen by a lot of hard work for certain things to happen. Like all professional athletes had to put in hard work to get where they are at.
DeleteI have learned many valuable lesson throughout the course of my life. I have One specifically though that i think has put the biggest effect on my life, That lesson is not to lie about anything. I always thought growing up that lying could get you out of big trouble but only to earn that in gets you into even more trouble that you are already in. At first, I didn’t really understand this concept but as I grew older I began to understand it better and it eventually changed my life. Once I started to understand this lesson, I would tell the truth more and I would be in trouble as much as I wa before. I really started to become and overall better person. I did for a couple of reasons. When you meet a person for the first time, and they notice that you do something like curse, be disrespectful, lie, they tend to judge you and see you as a person who does those certain things. I didn’t want people seeing me as a liar or as anyone else except for the person I really am. I don't want them seeing me as a bad person or not a cool person. This lesson really will help me move forward with my life as well. As I encounter situations involving this situation it will come into my mind and I will chose the right thing to do. As I get older and I meet new people they will see me as a person that is cool and that they want to be around. This will make me such a better person in the future and it will help me make certain decisions and lead me in the right path. As I go to college and progress with my life I will have changed so much that people will see me as a completely different person. And that being a good person and not a bad one. I never really was a bad person but still they will see me as a nice, caring, good person. This is by far the most important lesson that I have learned throughout the course of my life. As you can see this lesson has made me changed and has helped me benefit from several things one being by making the right choices in life and using these lessons to do so.
ReplyDeleteThe most valuable lesson I have ever learned is to be yourself in life. People always tell you to be like this person or tell you to take this job. But I see myself as doing whatever I want in the future. I want to choose what I want to be because I want to enjoy it with all of my life. I see that people take a great influence on famous people on the internet or from tv shows. But I want to be the person that is different from everyone else. People from all over the world are different is someway. Maybe it is because of the personality they have. Or it is what the person loves to do and they are great at it. But I want to be someone who can be noticed by what I do and it influences kids and adults. I want to hear that I am important to the actions and choices I have made with what I have done. One person I see as themselves is my dad. My dad is funny, courageous, brave, and himself. When he was in a place with us and it was boring, he would act all silly and make jokes to make us laugh and smile. It worked, and he always did that when we were little. Another example is my mom. Now she is someone who is herself. She is fun, wild, but is also a mother. But I see another life lesson I have learned, was never judge people by how they look. People mostly everywhere will judge you because of your looks, not your personality. But, your personality is what makes you, you. I wished this happened now, but it still goes on. I was judged when I was young. I was very shy, fat, and kind of weird. People made fun of me and mad jokes to me. But that didn’t stop me. So I started to change, and now people see me in a different way. You see, people who look weird aren’t weird. They are themselves and you can’t change that. I learned to not judge people for who they are or what they wear. But to how they act in their personality that they have. Also I want to be myself in any way possible in my entire life. Those are the two most important life lessons I have learned
ReplyDeleteMy life has been all over the place. Ups and downs, right and left, you name it. But over everyone's life there would most likely be a moment that mattered most. A defining time that would change his/her life forever. For many this moment would just be a quote their grandma said to them, a lesson learnt from a moment in their life, etc. But for me that moment is something I try to push away at most times, but is the only honest response I can type about. That moment would be Hurricane Sandy. During and a few years after Hurricane Sandy me and my family mover over 9 times in under 2 years, each time to a place further and further from a place I could honestly call home. After the first few months of moving I had to go to a school so that I wouldn’t have to repeat a grade in middle school. During that time I went to an Island Heights school.There I faced many stresses and had little to no true friends. The bullying was relentless and without reason, the teachers sometimes taking part in it.The constant stress pushed me into a pit of depression that strangled the happiness out of me. That time I just was wondering why. Why was it me that people picked on, why was it me that had a hard time in the new school, unlike my sister who was accepted and relatively popular with most people in the school. After a while I became numb to their insults. I became without purpose, the depression was never ending and suicide became an option I pondered often. I turned to movies and tv shows as my only companions. One day I watched The Shining and took a liking to writing inverted, like the boy that wrote redrum did. I tested out my writing on notebooks and would turn the page over to see if I wrote the word correctly. This became a vent for me. I would write things nobody could understand, and I loved it. But one day I wrote eid on one of my notebook pages, translating to die when turned backwards. One of my teachers went through all of my items in the school and found the page. She claimed she thought I was threatening to kill her and called the cops. After that I was subjected through mental testing, all resulting in my perfect sanity and extreme depression. The days breezed by, me just being without memory of the last day, with a mindset of just get through it. One day I just realized that I had had enough. If people were not going to like me, I don’t like them. If people are going to hate me, I’m going to hate them. Teaching myself my own proverb of, “Reactions Reflect.” One of the most important things I learnt. This mindset allowed me to maintain friendships with the few people in the school who were nice to me. Being that I hate bringing this up I going to stop writing now.
ReplyDeleteThe article “Live & Learn and Pass It On” was a pretty good article and tells you a lot about life. It tries to teach you some lessons about life. I have learned a lot of important lessons in my life. I have learned a lot from them all of them by the most important one is to do what you want to do in your life. Do not let others tell you what you should do and be forced to do things that you do not feel like doing. You should do fun things so your life will be fun. If you are always being told what to do that is not very fun. If you just do what you want to do in life everything will be a lot more better then it was before. I want to do things differently then other people do it. I rather do it my way and have fun with it instead of doing things that are boring. Like a lot of people try to be like certain celebrities and be just like them but that never really works too much. I rather just be myself and do things my way that is how people get noticed. If you do things different than other people do more people will know you and notice you more often. I want to be important and not just be an average person. There are some people in my life too that are like that. One person like that is my dad. He does what he wants to and has fun with it. Like he won’t be serious all the time or anything he is just having fun. That is how I would want to be and things like that. Not having to be serious all the time I rather have some fun in my life. I do not want to have a boring life. Just do some things that I want to do. You should not really care what other people think about you or anything. People are always going to judge you no matter what happens so you mind as well have fun with it and not care too much about other things. That is the most important lesson that I have learned in my life though so far. You should just do what you want to do in your life and be able to have fun with it.
ReplyDeleteOne of the most valuable lessons I have learned is you should never change the person you are to fit in. I had a good friend in elementary school, and we were really close. We did a lot together, had a lot of fun memories and good times. I really felt that I could trust her. Over time somehow we’ve grown a little distant but I still thought we were good friends. We were seeing each other less and less the more time that passed up to middle school. Around that time, we didn’t see each other at all. It’s like we were two complete strangers who have never met in our entire lives. I was saddened by this, as I remember how close we were and all of our good times. To be so far apart now seemed very odd to me, but she didn’t seem to care much. She acted as if we were never even friends to begin with. She subtly snubbed me and was obnoxious about it too. Although I was upset about losing this friend for an unknown reason, I realized that I still had my other friends who cared about me and was there for me when I needed them most. It was those friends in the end who mattered. This made me realize that people are going to come and go in your life, but the people who don’t change to fit in with the rest of the crowd and always stay by your side are the people who will matter the most in your life. This lesson helped my life to be more aware of the friends I have, keep, and choose to share apart of me with. It’ll help me move forward in life from this old friend who tried to fit in. Also it’ll help myself of not making the same mistake she did. She may fit in now but she may not have as loyal friends who she can depend on. I know that I’m not going to try to be something I’m not just to follow the crowd. This will help me significantly with my dash because I know I’m making the right choice in being myself and that’s all that's important. I’m going to have friends I can count on and who can count on me; this will make me proud of what I do between my dash. I sometimes see this person in the school hallways of Central. When I do I simply be the mature person and turn the other cheek. I’m not angry with her because she hurt me, I just hope she realizes in the end that she only hurt herself.
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