My writing of these incidents in this location, time, language, and manner, are solely credited to my family’s life-changing decision to travel to the unfamiliar land of America. This unforgettable experience signifies the detachment from my closest and most loved family, which I yearn to be with to this day. However, I can only remind myself that, perhaps, I am a better individual as a result of my journey across the globe, and that everything which occurs in life occurs for a
Of what I’ve read so far in “The Things They Carried”, all of the stories that the author tells seem to end in sorrow. Well of course, war itself isn’t the happiest of things, but I at least expected a story about winning a battle or something along those lines. The poem, “Thoughts of You” captures the essence of the relationship between Mark Fossie and Mary Ann. Lines from the poem, such as “Thoughts of you make me smile” or “Thoughts of you give me strength” shows how Mark thought of Mary before she flew over to Vietnam. The thought of her made him stronger, and helped him cope with the stresses of the war.
They will never forget what they learned from Keating. Some of them will continue to live their lives based on Carpe Diem forever. Even after all they endured with Keating being fired and Neil dying they still stood on their desks at the end as a gesture of nonconformity in a salute to Keating. The philosophies they found will allow them to escape lives of quiet desperation and live life like Thoreau and Whitman did. Source Page 1.
We only have 0ne life, unless of we believe in incarnation.....then we have more than one life. But shouldn't we live life to its fullest? Shouldn't we embrace every moment, even if that moment doesn't turn out so good? When you're lying on your death bed, wouldn't you rather want to be able to say "yea, I had fun, made some mistakes, but I don't regret it, I got to experience just about everything I wanted too." instead of "yea, i regret never going on a cruise or telling my sister how I really felt.
Getting older I went thru a phase where I always wanted to cover up (jacket, big clothes ect), but after that phase I became comfortable in my own skin. Embraced who I was and begin loving me. Learning about the Transtheoretical model of behavior change helped me to clearly understand the many changes I been thru and are currently going thru today. The first stage is pre contemplation where I was in denial that a problem existed; I did not intend to start a healthy behavior in the near future and was very unaware of
It will soon effect or change you or your outlook on life in some way shape or form. But set aside the fact that I lost my mom didn’t mean that I was about to make everyone feel sorry for me. But inspired me to go on with my education, to be more determined and focused on getting my high school diploma and show her that I would be the person that I once told her I was going to be. That’s why people cannot tell when someone’s life will begin nor end because nowadays you just never know. Hamlet emphasizes “Devoutly to be wished.
I was always a fan of wanting to control life, not letting life control me. But then I learned to stop trying to plan things too far ahead because even within a short span of seconds, everything can alter. So rather than planning my every step, I simply keep a destination in mind and work towards getting there. To begin, my greatest accomplishment in 2022 would hopefully be pursuing my dream career as a physician assistant. I will have achieved this part of the journey to my destination through my hard work and countless hours of dedication to meeting all the rigorous requirements necessary to the PA program.
Each time we would think about returning we would figure out another reason not to. We had become the courage we prayed for as children, the story we would tell our unborn baby’s, and the reason every thriving American cringes in the morning. We had learned to survive on our own, or at least we liked to believe we did. Our journey looking for ourselves, and finding a way to better survive, lasted close to 365 days. 365 days, of growing up that should have taken years.
I am the captain of my life.” I think this is a very true statement. I am the only one who can choose for me weather I want to be happy or unhappy with my life, no matter what the situation may be. In life you must actually make things happen not just talk about making them happen. Before I read this book I was always talking about what things I was going to achieve or plan on doing. I really needed to set dates on when I was going to do whatever it was that I needed to do.
I would like to give you a challenge to start you off in this venture. I would like to encourage you to continue to strive for greatness in everything that you do from here on out. After giving this speech much thought I came up with “What Makes a Champion”? Basically it all boils down to how to handle failures because you will have some as you go forth in life. You should use your failures as a stepping stone to strive and flourish as you go through the different stages in your adult lives.