Jealousy is just another part of everyday life. As shown in Bobbie Ann Mason 's "Being Country", the story just shows that it 's normal to be envious of others and just look at positive things in their lives while ignoring the negative things. For example, when Mason 's family was having dinner, instead of looking at it like a feast because of the plentiful food her family had. Mason looked at it as "fuel for work". Instead of always looking at the positive side, we as humans like to generate an unreasonable conclusion from what 's bad in our lives to what 's good in someone else 's.
Growing up in Texas has it 's pros and cons, but as a child I would practically think that the cons like unpredictable weather, and skin-melting Summers meant …show more content…
Having where I wanted to go in mind for so long, made sharing the thought harder. How was I suppose to say that I wanted to go to four different states and try to convince my parents to move to one of those four states once we were there? Being the obnoxious kid that I was, I got my wish of a …show more content…
Knowing that I wouldn 't get to do everything that I wanted since I got to pick where to go, making a priorities list was key to making the experience memorable. Sight-seeing and trying out different types of food were up there, but the main thing I wanted to do was visit Utah 's mountains.
Along the way, there were a few hiccups. First stop, was New Mexico. Going there first wasn 't prioritized for me, but it was expected since the state was right next to Texas. I figured I would try to make the best of it, but knowing my luck, there probably wasn 't much I could do since we only stopped there for a two days. One of those days happened to be July fourth, and unfortunately none of the "Must-try" places were open. Thinking to myself, "it 's not a big deal".
There 's so much more of the trip left that sulking over one thing I didn 't get to do wasn 't worth it. Our second stop, was Arizona 's Grand Canyon. Knowing that I couldn 't be overly excited, because anything could happen, I decided to not get my hopes up. A somewhat expected phone call came and it was a family member saying that they expected to see us sooner. So a second hiccup happened and it made the think that these two states weren 't great at all since I didn 't get to experience
Growing up in Texas has it 's pros and cons, but as a child I would practically think that the cons like unpredictable weather, and skin-melting Summers meant …show more content…
Having where I wanted to go in mind for so long, made sharing the thought harder. How was I suppose to say that I wanted to go to four different states and try to convince my parents to move to one of those four states once we were there? Being the obnoxious kid that I was, I got my wish of a …show more content…
Knowing that I wouldn 't get to do everything that I wanted since I got to pick where to go, making a priorities list was key to making the experience memorable. Sight-seeing and trying out different types of food were up there, but the main thing I wanted to do was visit Utah 's mountains.
Along the way, there were a few hiccups. First stop, was New Mexico. Going there first wasn 't prioritized for me, but it was expected since the state was right next to Texas. I figured I would try to make the best of it, but knowing my luck, there probably wasn 't much I could do since we only stopped there for a two days. One of those days happened to be July fourth, and unfortunately none of the "Must-try" places were open. Thinking to myself, "it 's not a big deal".
There 's so much more of the trip left that sulking over one thing I didn 't get to do wasn 't worth it. Our second stop, was Arizona 's Grand Canyon. Knowing that I couldn 't be overly excited, because anything could happen, I decided to not get my hopes up. A somewhat expected phone call came and it was a family member saying that they expected to see us sooner. So a second hiccup happened and it made the think that these two states weren 't great at all since I didn 't get to experience