Aphorism Summary: My Art Of Life

My Art of Life My Art of life Aphorism is “Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let god deal with the things they do, because hate in your heart will consume you to”. By Will Smith. This aphorism fits me because all throughout my life so many people have disrespected me and made me mad, even the people I trusted the most. I want to learn to forgive and forget because we all are human and we make mistakes. When people would disrespect me I would with react fast which would get me in trouble, and that’s not always the best answer. I want to show people that the things they do and say to me don’t have an effect on my life. In my Aphorism the five factors that govern my direction are thinking, reflecting, communicating, silence and caring. Thinking governs my Aphorism because if someone disrespects me I’m going to think before I speak. Reflecting governs my Aphorism because when I get home I’ll lie down and reflect on my whole day I’ll see if there was a situation I could have avoided. Communicating governs my aphorism because by communicating I can let people know how I’m feeling so they can …show more content…
A lot of people had hurt me in some many ways that I wonder how I can forgive them. I just want to know what I did so badly for them to do that. All I do is walk around with a smile on my face and everyone thinks I’m just this happy kid that has no worries in the world, but in reality I’m miserable. In my childhood years I got treated differently for some reason and to this day I’m still holding a grudge against my family. It’s so hard saying how I’m feeling sometimes that’s why I get mad and frustrated fast. I have also said and did a lot of things to my family that I can’t take back. So it’s kind of an abnormal