Gratitude is the quality of being thankful and readiness to show appreciation for and to return kindness. In an article I found it says that Gratitude is good for our well being, happiness, relationships, and self control. It helps our well being because it makes us more open, agreeable, and less neurotic. It helps our happiness because the more we give the more happier we will be. If your kind to others it can make you more kind as a person. The third part is relationships gratitude effects them because gratitude tends to make people more willing to forgive others and tend to be less narcissistic. Gratitude can also make people be able to be more self controlling by being thankful can make us make better choices in our lives and for the ones we love in the most significant ways. Gratitude is a very important thing to have in life for everybody. The power of thought is the key to people making their own reality. The power of thought is also limitless which means nothing is impossible and impossible is nothing. You can do whatever you set your mind to no matter what it is.
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I watched a video of a basketball coach named John Wooden his video is about the difference between winning and losing. Three things that I connected to are one "never try to be better than someone else learn from other and never cease trying to be the best that you can be" I connect with this because I believe people should be original in their own way not just be better than someone else. Life is not a competition. You should always try to better yourself and become a better person but in the inside. If you are a good person you will go far in life farther than a person who has no soul and does not care about anything. The second thing that caught my attention is "you must have patience and you must have faith" this is very true to me because you can't rush your way through life and in some situations you have to be patient. In some situations if you rush you will mess up. Patience is a good personality trait. Also always having faith can you get you through tough times. Not everyone is religious but I am and I always have faith in God and he has gotten me through a lot that I didn't think I would because he was at my side. The third thing is "we hope things will turn out the way we want them to much of the time but we don't do the things that are necessary to make those things become a reality" people always want something to happen but they get lazy and don't do the steps to make that something come true. If you want something you do what it takes to get it not just think it will magically happen without any effort at all. An article that I picked for an Olympic story that has a message that is needed in the world today is an article about a Russian Olympic luger offers American rival his sled in gesture of kindness. An American Olympian named Chris Mazdzer got silver in the Winter Olympics this year. He fell into a rut before the games and slid down the world rankings, A Russian then offered Chris his sled and said it could give him a boost which lugers never do. Chris said that his "display of friendship was really moving and that it shows we care about each other and there is this human connection which crosses countries and cultures and sports is an amazing way to accomplish it". The sled was too small but the gesture did kick Chris out of his slump. He became the first American to win a luge medal at the Olympics. I believe this shows that no matter how big or small a gesture is it could really help someone. We need more kindness in this world. You never know what someone could be going through and they might be having a bad day so being kind to them and help them out with something or just be nice to them could help them out or if it doesn't at least you tried.
!. this article is by Temple St. Clair and she says that is it crucial to being successful to have a strong support system at home. She is right because if you have that then you can get through times in your life easier and you know people will always be there for you.
2. This article is by Derek J. Sine and he says he has people who keep him accountable, people who keep him from staying satisfied, and others who define what success looks like and that those people contributed to his journey in life some way. I have role models and people who hold me accountable for stuff that I do and they make me a better person. 3. By Sama Jashnani and she said friends and family believed in her and boosted her confidence especially when times were rough. My friends and family do believe in me but sometimes I make bad decisions but they never left my side and they still push me to do good which always gives me confidence. 4, By Mera Baker and she says that certain people who challenged her got her where she is now. To me this is true because my family, friends, teachers, and others always challenge me to do good or push me to do things I didn't believe I could but I did and I became a better person because of those things. 5. By Chris Nicholson and he said it all will start with who you share your life with and who you let in. I let the wrong people in my life but when you take the toxic people out no matter how you feel about them your life becomes better and better things will come your way. It might be hard at first to let them go but within time it will get better and you will see that it is better that they are out of your life. 6. By Heather Ripley and she says that having friends and family who you look up to or who are at the top of their careers is a huge motivator. My family and friends are my motivators because they never give up on me no matter how many stupid decisions I have made and they motivate me to do good in my life and go for what I want. They motivate me to be a better person and to do good in school. three things that he said that I connected to were was to take full responsibility for what you do. That is true because why not own up to what you do because hopefully if you make a mistake you learn from it and you don't do it again and also it can make you a better person. I've made mistakes that I have owned up to because I knew if I didn't I wouldn't be forgiven by the person or by myself. The second thing is that it's not what happens but it is what you do that changes everything because anything can happen but it depends on what you do after it happens. Different people can react differently to the same thing. Third thing is to learn to weep in the fall without apology if you do well and without complaint if you don't that maturity. I connect with this because if your doing good there is no reason to apologize but if you are doing bad then you should not complain because it is up to you whether you do well or not and it is your responsibility to be mature about it.
I watched two videos one is about John O'Leary and the intro to his story and the second one is him talking to a large group of people. Two lessons that I learned from the first video is that one is to never give up and the second thing is to always have hope. In the second video the two points are that one when you feel powerful love from whose who are around you eventually you might believe in yourself and the second is that when you cry it is a sign of great strength. I think these points are very important in life and they are very true also.
MLK has 10 famous quotes. The first quote is “darkenss cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” to me this quote means that they are opposites darkness is opposite to light and hate is opposite of love. You can not mix darkness with more darkness or hate with more hate because you cannot get light or love out of the mix. All the hate will not drive the darkness out of the person unless they learn to not hate and to love. Second quote is “life’s most persistent and urgent question is, “what are you doing for others?” if others are their for you then you should be there for me. You should not ever be selfish because when people find out that you are they will leave your life or not tell you things that they would if you were not only worried about yourself. The third is “faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase” this qutoe connects to me because recently I had to do something that could either make a relationship stronger or end it completely which it did end but I got to know who the person really was and not who they were pretending to be. Fourth quote is “we must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope” disappointment will usually last a short amount of time but sometimes we have to let ourselves be surprised by being upset by it because we should expect it because no one is perfect everyone makes mistakes. We should always have hope that things will get better after the disappoint because life and yourself will not get passed that bump in the road. Fifth quote is “a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus” the quote means a leader does not make their followers agree with them but they persuade them to agree with them. Sixth quote is “love is the only capable force of transforming an enemy into a friend” some people love a lot and cannot hold a grudge and they have forgiveness in their heart which lets the hate for an enemy fade away and they might become a friend if you let go of why they became your enemy. Seventh quote is “our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter” this means that our day does not matter or won’t be enjoyable if you do not let anyone know what matters to you and you keep it to yourself might make you go crazy mentally so your day turns bad unlike if you let someone know and vented to them or ranted to them about it so that your anger or why your upset is known and it makes you feel better so that your day is actually better than it was or would be if you hadn’t. Eighth quote is “the ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenges and controversy” what makes a man a man is what he gets pasted instead of what he is just happy about or disagrees about. How someone gets through rough patches in their lives shows what kind of person they are and how strong they really are. The ninth qutoe is “if a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live” this quote means that if you don’t find a purpose in life that you should and not just go through life just to go through it. The tenth and final quote is “we must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good int the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies” I connect with this quote because I have forgave friends who turned on me because I found out their is some good in them but another person showed me their true colors I can forgive them but I will never not be enemies with them because I don’t see the goodness in their heart anymore.
I listened to the podcast of Oprah interviewing Mitch Albom about his book "Tuesday's With Morrie" three points that I connected with is first off when Oprah said that one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself is time so that you become more inspired but time helps me heal and time lets everyone heal if you ever have a broken heart it's like that one saying "time heals the broken heart". Second thing is to forgive everyone and everything which is true because if you don't forgive others you will never move on with your life and God always says you need to forgive everyone. The third and final thing is the thing that comforts you or makes you feel worth while is being with the people you love which is true whenver i'm upset the people I love which are my friends and family they get me through hard times.
1.honesty hurts now and helps later
I connect with this because not just someone telling you something is honesty it can also be being honest with yourself. People have hurt me or I just didn't believe things that people told me but you have to keep your mind open so it hurts less. You might have a broken heart but time will heal it because day by day you start to not think about it anymore or you learn to block it out. Some people who hurt you will be close people who you thought never would betray you and after you find out you might try to think of a way to get past it and keep them in your life but they will be most likely toxic and just keep hurting you. 2. relationships are key loved ones will help you get through many tough times. I've had a lot of hard times where I just wanted to give up and I felt like I was alone but then the people who love me would be there for me and it would remind me that im not alone and I will always have people who will help me get past things that try to tear me down. I want to make the people I love proud so I overcome difficult situations that are thrown my way. 3. failure isn't forever I connect with this because I have failed in life many times but I never give up I get knocked down and get back up because if you don't you will never succeed in life. The saying "those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it" if you do not except that you have failed then you will keep failing until you try to be successful instead. "Faith and Fear require the not knowing aspect. Why not choose faith instead of fear?"- Brent Payne
My thoughts about this quote is that it is very true. I rather have faith in something than fear because having faith in something makes you stronger but having fear makes you not strong unless you overcome that fear and by doing that you can have faith instead. |
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