You ever get to a point in your life where you sit back and actually realize HOW MUCH you've outgrown stuff? Some things will always be a part of you, but at a certain point in your life you realize there's no value in some things.
The bible says “as a child a spoke as a child, but when I became a man, I put away those childlike things.” What can be quite bothersome to me at times though are people see no fault and make no attempt to make a change for the better. What’s better you ask? Anything besides what we’ve been doing. The denotation of insanity is doing the same act and expecting the results to differ. It’s almost as if we’ve gotten comfortable in “getting by”, or settling for the bare minimal in everyday life. When people DON'T realize the situations they find themselves in are doing more harm than
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We love to put on for the block when the block has done nothing but kept us from progressing. The hood has stolen dreams, friends and families, yet we stand there and act as if all is well. How is it possible that people can have their lives taken or altered in ways in which we can offer no real reason as to why?
When I was younger, I would often think of ways to be different. I often became witness to things going on around me that I ultimately wanted no part of. What we saw as fun later we realized that we dodged many bullets, not in the literal sense, but the exact same activities we’d get ourselves involved in due to mere boredom is the same activities that cost others their lives and even given time behind bars.
“Who are you, and how did you become this way?”
Trial and error . . . I am a man who realizes that potential lives dormant within all of us. It is up to us to tap into the nature and allow our potential to flourish, potential alone isn’t
What if someone examined their own day-to-day life? Most of us would admit to leading a lifestyle that is systemized and orderly, doing the same thing you do every day. People get so accustomed to this style of life and satisfaction, that they never find the true meaning behind life. In Jon Krakauer’s, Into the Wild, Chris McCandless explains that, “So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future.”
Imagine that you are going to go over to your friend’s house to have dinner for the first time. You pull into their white picket fence lined driveway and realize their white house looks nice with their blue shutters and their bright red front door. As you smell their fresh flowers outside, you can only imagine how lovely the inside of their house looks like. You walk into the front door and are immediately greeted by a wall covered in antique doilies. You think that it’s odd but still continue to walk into their living, which is also covered in doilies. There aren’t just a few doilies here and there; the walls are covered top to bottom with doilies. What is that strange material on their couches? - Doilies! Small doilies, large doilies, rug doilies, and lamp shade covered doilies everywhere. What have you gotten yourself into? Your friend comes in and starts to tell you about her “collection”. You wonder how it could be a collection when it has taken over her whole house. At this point you think that she is more of a doilie hoarder rather than a collector. When is having a collection something more serious like being a hoarder? Why do people even start collecting things and what makes an object collectible? These are just some of the questions I will analyze in this paper.
Owning too many things in your life can not only drain and frustrate you, it can make it difficult to get things done. You find yourself collecting things for a couple of reasons, maybe you think you’ll need to use them later, you spent good money on them, or they have sentimental value so you feel you need to keep these items. The majority of people haven’t touched or used these things in weeks, months, or even years. Excessive things or clutter in your surroundings can have a negative impact on your ability to focus and process information. Once you've accumulated a certain amount of stuff, it starts to own you rather than the other way around. People often associate happiness with how many cars you have and how big your house is, but these
“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” (Albert Einstein)
The article “On Punishment and Teen Killers”, Jennifer Jenkins gives another example of how a teenager acts. She says “He [teen who killed the woman] reported to a friend, who testified at his trial, about his ‘thrill kill’ that he just wanted to ‘see what it would feel like to kill someone’” (Jenkins). As said earlier, children learn these
For example, the fact that comedians across the country are having to cancel college appearances simply due to fear of microaggression just shows the lengths of the college student’s sheltered life. The way that we are taught as children, that “adults will do everything in their power to protect you from harm,” (Lukianoff/Haidt) ultimately is something that should, but is not, let go of when age increases.
What if you could forget all your worries and cease to care? What if you could avoid all the stresses of being a teenager in high school, all the expectations teachers, parents, and society impose on you, and simply be free and careless? Would you decide to take action? Would you risk everything to have a permanent feeling of euphoria and liberty? Would it be worth it? In the fictional world Chuck Palahniuk creates in his short story “Zombie”, there is a way to make this happen. Nonetheless, this fictional world is not impossible, it is improbable.
“An insanity defense is based on the theory that most people can choose to follow the law; but a few select persons cannot be held accountable because mental disease or disability deprives them of the ability to make a rational / voluntary choice. Such individuals need special treatment as opposed to prison; punishment is not likely to deter future antisocial conduct of these mentally diseased individuals.” Retrieved on 5/25/2010 from http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/hinckley/EVOL.HTM
The air hung around them, tensed and quiet. The fragility of her emotion was threatening to shatter. It is as if that time stood still for her. She fingered the brim of her notebook, nervously and took notice of the cup of coffee on her side. Controlling the sudden urged to drown the caffeine all at once; she carefully picked the cup and warily sipped its content. It had long been cold, and her tongue appreciated that fact.
madness of a world in which those who enjoy life most are those whom the world
My name is Robert Martin, and I only have one thing to say: it wasn’t me. Sure, I usually had to fire a couple of shots at the people in the banks to get them to keep quiet, however it was Reynold who was the real beast, both during our heists and after them. When the cops showed up that one day, Reynold figured that he was better off a fugitive. I had creased out the part of my memory that told me he was a cold-blooded barbarian who had killed before and would gleefully kill once more. As I stood at the door to the bank, acting as a guard, I felt a sudden rush against my side. The next thing I knew, I was on the ground, and a cop was on top of me, holding
Using narratives to gain an insight into human experience is becoming an increasingly popular method of exploration. Assuming that people are in essence narrative beings that experience every emotion and state through narrative, the value of exploring these gives us a unique understanding. Narrative is thought to act as instrument to explore how an individual constructs their own identity (Czarniawska, 1997) and explain how each individual makes sense of the world around them (Gabriel, 1998). It may also give us an understanding into individual thought processes in relation to individual decision making practices (O’Connor, 1997). It is evident from studies such as Heider and Simmel (1944), that there appears to be an instinctive nature in people to introduce plots structures and narratives into all situations, with an intention to construct meaning to all aspects of life in its entirety. The value of narrative is that it is a tool that allows us to understand what it means to be human and gives us an insight into a person’s lived experience whilst still acknowledging their cultural and social contexts. Narrative is thought to be significance as it is ‘a fruitful organizing principle to help understand the complex conduct of human beings (p.49)’ (Sarbin, 1990) The construction of a person’s narrative is thought to be dependent on each person’s individual awareness of themselves and the circumstances that surround them. However, a debate to whether a person is able to formulate a valid narrative in the face of a mental illness such as schizophrenia has emerged. Sufferer’s symptoms are often thought to interfere with their abilities to perceive within a level deemed acceptable to their society’s norms and therefore the validity ...
I don’t know. Is that a genuine answer? Considering my lack of understanding and experience with mental illness, my answer seems rather fair coming from the perspective of an upcoming college student. I suppose I could offer an intellectual explanation regarding my uncle's portrayal to the world with statistical data, interviews, witty quotes, and what “psychologists” have to say… but does it count? If I were someone with a mental illness, would I really enjoy the idea of someone telling me how the world views me (the reader) when they (the writer) have no substantial evidence of what it is truly like living with such an illness? I suppose I could gather data, conduct research, and come to many conclusions, but the description of mental illness, the struggles and hardships, are not always scientifically reasonable. There are small details of information that linger in the everyday lifestyle of an individual suffering from mental illness. Details, that without first hand experience, would not be properly portrayed in an article written by someone who only has science on her side.
When it comes to my mental health, I can honestly say so far in my personal life, I have never experienced with any severe mental health issues. I think that I am very unaware what people go through when they have a mental health issue and I would really like to know more about the different mental health problems. I know people that I am close with that have experience with mental health. My sister suffers from anxiety. I have a few cousins whom I am close with that have experience with mental health problems. One of my cousins suffers from the mental illness, anorexia. My sisters and I were very close to her when we were younger, but when her mental illness took over her life, she became a different person.
It was dark that night, I was nervous that this dreadful day was going to get worse. Sunday, October 23, 1998 I wanted to start writing this to tell about the weird things i’m starting to see in this new neighborhood. Gradually I keep seeing pots and pans on the sink suddenly move to the floor. I would ask my sister but she is out with my mom and dad getting the Halloween costumes. When they got home I didn’t tell them what I saw because i've seen Halloween movies and I have to have dissimulation otherwise the ghost will come out and get me first. October 24, 1998 I think I got a little nervous yesterday with the whole ghost thing. 12:32pm, Went to eat lunch with the family today and I go to get my coat. I heard the words furious and madness,