What No One Ever Says About New Beginnings

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When one’s professor asks them to define a word, anyone would think that’s not so hard to do. Oh, but it was the constant over thinking with a million and one ideas entering their brain but none quite fitting to what they wanted to say. Finally, something clicked and they realized the words they wanted to use to described the word perfectly. Opportunity, the one thing everyone needs to make it in life. Opportunity means a chance at a new beginning, a chance at development and wisdom.
Everyone has that one friend that swears up and down that this year is going to be different but they wait all the way up until the clock strikes midnight on New Year’s Eve to make a pact to themselves that they will undoubtfully break within the upcoming
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The action of a new beginning is one Allison Fallon knows all too well, in her article “What No One Ever Says
About New Beginnings” she shares her experiences on leaving her marriage, what starting over has been for her and how new beginning aren’t always unicorns and rainbows. At one point, she references a poem ‘Aristotle’ by Billy Collins and says that though the poem was beautiful and invigorating that she felt the opposite of those emotions, she felt sad and lonely.
Everyone experiences new beginnings differently whether one is starting or leaving a job or relationship, these are all the start of something new.
Where there is a new beginning there is development, development is the expansion of

Rolle 2 one’s personal, intellectual and career growth. When someone gets hired or gets that huge job promotion one is showing career growth. Though some may not be ready or capable, this gives them the courage and ethical boost they need when they succeed, expanding their mind creating an intellectual growth. Maureen Healy’s’ article “Confidence in Children” depicts that praising a child makes all the difference, some of her key points were

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