Love is a magical feeling that boils inside our bodies and portrays care and devotion for special people in our lives. It often takes a great deal of want, nourishment, and dedication to keep love strong and intact. Sometimes, people don’t have enough want or dedication to keep love intact. Without proper care or desire, love can fade away, break, or even turn to hate in the worst of cases. It takes two people to have a healthy loving relationship and my parents’ marriage is a prime example of lack of dedication that sent their love into the downward spiral of hate, resentment, and divorce. From listening to years of my parents’ constant bickering and fighting to tear each other down, their unhealthy divorce has caused me to lack a sense of …show more content…
People who get to know me, quickly learn that I almost never say no. Being a senior in high school, peer pressure has become one of my biggest enemies. With my desire to be accepted by others, I have often found myself making poor choices that I know deep down I would never chose to do. Seeing the approval and joy of others has overpowered my natural instincts. Yes, people do like and enjoy my presence more because of my outgoing choices, but I am always left feeling ashamed and disappointed in myself. I am unable to find the strength inside to make my own choices in fear of disappointing the others I care about. I often avoid other forms of disappointment by doing everything as perfectly as possible. A strive for perfection will prevent disappointment in my eyes. When something goes wrong I often feel like I could have prevented it by doing something differently, more efficiently. As an employee at Smoothie King, I have gained a large amount of trust and acceptance through my bosses. I am the only employee they have ever had who has received a promotion in under two months of employment. This is a great accomplishment, but at the same time they know they can always count on me to pick up shifts and work longer because I never want to disappoint them. Most see that as a great thing, but to me it is horrifying because I am unable to explain to them for my need of rest. I am often left …show more content…
My constant need to show others I belong has influenced my need to accept those around me as well. Everyone deserves a fair chance in life and should not be judged by those who don’t know them. My greatest rewards from choosing to believe in the good are my two best friends and first loves, Quinton and Kelsey. These two people were known for bad rumors that defined them, but by great luck we were all paired together for a group project a few years back and our great friendship began. I know what it feels like to be a disappointment and unwanted, and I would never wish to make another person feel that way. I saw the hurt in both of their eyes that made me feel connection to them. I loved the humor and determination that sprang from Kelsey’s soul and the tenderness and love that filled Quinton’s heart. They both had qualities that I have always longed for and in a way, I felt that they brought out those qualities in me. I never felt like I was good enough for them, maintaining a new friend ship and relationship with two people was very overwhelming and I felt like I was never doing anything right. They are both very opinionated and I was the complete opposite. For the first time, I felt like an outsider for trying to fit in with them. Because spending so much time together, they began to see my true personality and saw that I
Along with these feelings of rejection, the spouse who wanted to stay married also often feels betrayed. Their partner vowed to love and honor them forever, and to stand by them in sickness and in health, and to devote their lives to them. With divorce, all of that is taken away. Those promises of love, fidelity, and companionship are broken, by the choice of the spouse pursuing the divorce. In contrast, when d...
Love can influence people in mysterious ways, the underlying cause is promise, that there is hope for something greater than oneself. We also see how this can create a chasm between family members. The fact of the matter is, love can stem from various situations, memories, or personal thoughts. There are some forbidden marriages that turn out to be a good thing, there are also parents who want give a home to an unsuspecting child they never knew they wanted. Certain situations determine who a person is through the experiences they are given and the feelings that are felt from it. Most of the stories that have come along are giving to us with an example of separation, a longing for love, an outcome that may or may not be beneficial in the long
Over the past year I have grown as both a person and a writer. My writing has improved
Ever since I started talking this class, English 1301, with Dr. Piercy, I have been able to expand my writing and thinking skills. Not only was I able to make more better essays but I also learned important topics such as how education creates an impact in the world. In this essay I will be talking about three writings and how they are related to this course semester. The three writings are “On Bullshit” by Harry Frankfurt, “Why I Write Bad” by Milo Beckman,and “Statement of Teaching Philosophy” by Stephen Booth. How are these 3 writings related to this semester’s course work?
Over the course of this class I feel like I have become a much better writer. When I go back and look at some of my Journal entries and assignments that I did at the beginning of the semester, I can’t help but tense up at some of the things I wrote. Sometimes the things I was writing didn’t flow well, or I might have even have missed glaring grammar mistakes.
Growing up in a predominantly white neighborhood as a kid sanctioned me to perpetually become aware that I was different from my neighbors. Through some social interactions with my friends in elementary schools, I quickly descried that my appearances, such as my hair, eyes, and nose was different from my peers. For instance, my hair was a lot darker than most of my peers’ hair and the texture of my hair was different from most of them. “Grow out your hair” were phrases that lingered throughout my childhood days, where I had my hair at a very short length. Throughout my childhood, I longed to try to be a part of the dominant group in society such as the Caucasians, but I did not do anything to be a part of the bigger group in society. Instead,
As a second language learner I have never expected myself to be a perfect writer throughout the semester. Even If English was my first language still, I would not be a perfect writer. It is not about first or second language, it is about how well I understand the learning objectives. Then organizing and writing with my own ideas and putting them in my paper. I am going to be honest, I am not good at English subject and English subject is my strongest weakness than the other subjects. In this paper I will discuss and analyze my own writing, reflecting on the ways that my writing has improved throughout the semester.
Girgis, George, & Anderson (2011) define marriage as the union of a man and a woman who make a permanent and exclusive commitment to each other of the type that is naturally (inherently) fulfilled by bearing and rearing children together. These marriages are intended to last eternity and are partially accomplished by raising children together, yet four of every ten marriages lead to divorce and of these divorces, 35% involve children (Ambert, 2009). Children tend to blame themselves for the divorce and are usually caught in the crossfire. These divorces lead to both stress and depression for children and without a strong sense of family, children will have a huge disadvantage over children with a stable healthy family (Arreola, Hartounian, Kurges, Maultasch, & Retana, 2013). Without the ability to cope with the stress of a divorce, children can be effected in multiple ways including a change in mentality, unacceptable behavioural traits and both short and long term emotional factors that will ultimately lead to a critical issue in child development.
The topic of what happens to those that have, "never heard the good news of Jesus Christ" weighs extremely heavy on my heart. I work with Atheist, Muslim, Hindu and Pluralist in the technology field. Frequently I am attacked just for being a Christian. For a while it was scary to know that I have become a minority in my own country. Some how each time I am attacked I love these guys that much more. My Hindu friend really knew nothing about Jesus before he met me. At lunch one day he asked me about Christianity and I was able to share with him the good news. But for some reason he rebeled and believes the Bible is, "the greatest book of fiction ever created." If not for the revelation God provided about His Word in my second year of Bible school, I probably would be a pluralist myself. I really want everyone I share Jesus with to go to heaven and it use to be tempting to think God might make an exception. However, there is only
When one looks at their life, at any stage in which they live, it is pivotal to see clearly how they are finding meaning, purpose and direction within their daily decisions. As I’ve learned to value the role of community and covenant relationships in my life, it has been a challenge to continually commit myself to overcoming my flesh and correctly align myself with God’s intentions for my life. As part of this transformative process in centering my worldview on Christ’s love, I’ve concluded that all of life’s ultimate questions are found to have been correctly answered in the Bible; repeatedly in Scripture, and specifically in one verse, I have found that it sources everything in life to the glory of God. Romans 11:36 centers our attention on Christ, from whom we derive all answers to origins, meaning, morality, destiny and identity for our lives: “For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen. (ESV).” Not only does the most credible book ever written support this thesis, but in “Making Sense of your World,” it is strongly communicated that “God alone is the ultimate reality and everything else is derived from him (Phillips, Brown, Stonestreet, 2008, p. 44).”
Relationships are all about give and take, and to maintain that balance people must be willing to do the work. Today dissolution of marriage is being used as the easy way out when couples no longer agree. When couples are incapable of maintaining a happy marriage, a divorce can be agreed upon. Divorce is more common nowadays, making the divorce rate a continual increase. About 40 to 50 percent of married couples in the United States divorce (Kazdin). In America, there is one divorce every 13 seconds. That’s 6,646 divorces per day, and 46,523 divorce per week (Irvin). The three main causes of divorce is the lack of communication, financial difficulties, and infidelity.
My views on whether people are born good, evil, or neutral have not changed. I still believe that there is continuum that ranges from good to evil with neutral in the center. I think most people fall somewhere in the middle of this continuum though there may be some genetic traits that predispose them one way or the other slightly. For most people what causes us to fall into either the good or evil ranges are specific moments in time and the actions or behaviors we choose. Most people are neither fully good nor fully evil, but in a given situation can be either. However, I believe that good or evil actions can be reinforced for individuals, making the person more likely to act or behave in a similar manner again even if it is against the individual’s core beliefs about himself or herself.
The process of choosing the right college is not a decision to be taken lightly. The next four years of your life should be at a place where you can thrive. So often people disregard the idea of college, and can’t grasp the concept that this next step in your life is not only exciting but frightening. This isn’t like going to Starbucks and spending a half hour ordering a drink that will only last you an hour, this decision has a direct impact on your future. The fact of the matter is that college isn’t about which school has the cutest boys, best parties, and easiest courses, rather the one that will push your mind to think in new ways. Concordia University is full of thrilling possibilities, and the goal to push your academic knowledge
This reflection paper is about the climate change based on articles in the Global issues book. The articles used in this reflection paper are “Climate Change” by Bill McKibben and “The Other Climate Changers” by Jessica Seddon Wallack and Veerabhadran Ramanathan. This paper will explore McKibbens ideas on if scientists are divided, the effects of climate change and how climate change can happen. This paper will also explore Wallack and Ramanathan’s thesis of black carbon and the ozone, pollutants and how to clean up the emissions. Both of the author’s perspectives on this issue are well informed and backed up with credible sources. They both explain the need to reduce our greenhouse emissions and create a global commitment that will slow down the climate change and help create a sustainable planet.
Just the words and observations of one man, Charles Darwin, practically changes how science is viewed by people today. It had led to controversial debates to figure out who is right or wrong. Many such as scientists, creationists and the so called Intelligent Designs has and still try to give their proof and reasoning of how this world and lives have their existence.