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Since the beginning of time people have always lived in fear of not being the most superior person in the room. To an extent this is human nature for example: White people have always been afraid that a non-white being would become superior than them. One amazing thing happened to the world over time everybody in the USA became equals, people’s right’s no longer depended on what their skin color was. Also being afraid of someone doing better than you is part of human nature as much as we don’t…

Ever since I was little I always wondered why I was never good enough for anything. I felt like I was not good enough for my family, and I still believe this to this day. My family treats me so different than they do to anyone else. I know I was never good enough in school because no one ever wanted me in their class. I strived for straight “A”s and sometimes that just was not enough. I wanted all the extra credit and higher grades than anyone. I made it a mission to do everything that I could…

Although my past relationship was not “Facebook Official” as we call it nowadays and we never really went on “dates,” I still consider this a relationship to myself. There was a physical connection that I felt towards this person, but I wonder if he felt the same connection that I did. Life in a small town… I grew up in the small town of Shenandoah – one of those small towns where everyone knows everyone, word gets around and rumors spread like wildfire. Even though my “relationship” was kept…

I decided to write about my relationship with my dad in this post because Father’s Day just passed and because I’ve already made a post about the incredible bond I have with my dad. In that post I mentioned that he was away in Korea when I was born and I didn’t get to see him until I was 7 months old. My mother, who was only 22 at the time, had a lot of responsibility taking care of the three of us who were all under 3 years old. When my dad came home he took over the caregiving duties for me…

October 14, 2014--the days are counting down and not a day spent at practice that we are not preparing for this game. The feelings can never replace a time, a place, and a team. As the days went fast, and what seemed to be the night that almost felt like it wasn’t real. The bus ride seemed to determine where we would go from here. We all knew where the bus was taking us, Spring Grove placed 6th whereas Kingsland placed 11th. The game everyone wouldn’t miss, yes due to the loss of every game we…

What is it about music that draws us in? Is it the beat, the lyrics, the artist or is it the type of genre the music is in? Could it even just be what we happen to be going through at the time we hear a specific song? For me most of these questions apply to specific times in my life where music helped me out of pain, stress, loss and even despair. There are a few of these times that stand out more than other because they have had a harder impact on me. For instance January of 2007 when my…

In every commercial you see about America, what do you see? You see farmers working in their fields, you see doctors tending to young children with their mothers smiling in the background, you see large cities with buildings so high they pierce the clouds, you see people dancing in the streets, children sitting at desks learning from large projectors, you see scientists working with the latest technology, you see the perfect ideals. However, America is not just given, it is made. This ideal is…

Passion, it has many different meanings, the most common one being where we are physically showing affection and love toward someone or something very strongly. Passion is a very strong feeling about a person or thing. Although the dictionary definition is, “A strong and barely controllable emotion,” it is so much more than that, so much more than people realize. They just need a little nudge to push them over the edge, to unlocking the true meaning of passion. To me, passion is when you feel…

The Key To Happiness! Everyone wants to be happy but people aren’t always great at predicting what will make them happy. When we are asked the question what makes us happy? We jump to a conclusion really quick without actually knowing what happiness really is. We all have different definitions of happiness and that is good because no one’s is going to be the same. For instance, someone’s happiness could be finding a shoe sale or watching the sunset at the beach another could say getting married…

Not All Ghosts Say Boo After reading the Ghosts and seeing the live production, my ideas and thoughts about some of the parts of the play changed dramatically. As a reader, I was only seeing it through my eyes, but after watching the performance, I can the play in a different light. My ideas on Mrs. Alving, Engstrand and Regina changed, the way that I saw the antagonist and protagonist changed, and my thoughts on who burned the orphanage changed. The production of Ghosts differed in multiple…