A Difficult Life

music artist, sang this song with great pleasure after song writers Tim Nichols and Craig Wiseman wrote it due to health scares in their families. It’s a common misconception that individuals may never be faced with near life death situations. However, at any given moment one’s life can be taken short, sometimes knowing death will come, or never expecting death will affect one. Cystic fibrosis is a one of the leading causes of death in the US. Imagine waking up every morning struggling to…

Wolfelt Bereavement Responses SELECT: Throughout our life, we create relationships with people, and perhaps one of the most difficult stages in life is when we have to deal with the death of a family member. As expressed by Greenberg (2013) mourning a love one implies changes, which also add distress to a person's life. How to understand such critical moments in life? In examining this process, Dr. Alan Wolfelt (2003) describes the six most common patterns (or stages) of bereavement that a…

The song “Good Life” is performed by the band OneRepublic, and written by songwriters Ryan Tedder, Brent Kutzle, Noel Zancanella and Eddie Fisher. The focus of the song is on the good and bad in life, hence the title “Good Life”. By examining the poetic devices inside the composition, it can be plainly seen that the song “Good Life”, by OneRepublic is a piece of poetry. The theme of the song “Good Life” by OneRepublic is that even though some aspects of life can be difficult, life in general is…

can be a difficult task to achieve. Facing fears can be difficult because it could involve in missing friends, family members or even a lost life. The topic of courage will pay off is explained to all readers in the adventurous novel with the title of The Lost Hero. This novel is written in third person point of view, it is the first book of The Heroes of Olympus Series. Life lessons are important to learn in life so that people don’t repeat mistakes that may have made in the past. Life lessons…

“Difficult times often bring out the best in people” (Bernie Sanders). When facing difficult times, people change for the better. Crash Coogan is no exception, for when his grandfather has a stroke, he begins to change. In the novel Crash by Jerry Spinelli, Crash Coogan faces a difficult challenge that helps him transform into a selfless person. He learns how to be compassionate and not only care about himself. Crash begins to question what he has been acting like most of his life. Being in…

one could be forgiven for feeling cheated. This story, created from the 1945 diary of a young Japanese soldier stationed in the Philippines, chronicles his experience of day-to-day life in camp as a mechanic in a non-combat unit juxtaposed with an imagined version of his supposedly ideal upbringing and pre-war life at home, in the Japanese countryside. “We try and hold on to some kind of ideals, when everything - ideals, hope, everything is being destroyed.” In writing these words, Anne Frank…

would do. The action all takes place on a mountain road at night. When a driver stops to pull a dead deer out of the road, he bumps into something unanticipated that makes him contemplate some big problems about mortality and nature along the road of life. In this poem Stafford uses the title, subtle false rhyme scheme techniques, and setting elements to give the poem a feeling of gloominess. As I read this poem it sparked up some old feelings I had when I was at a crossroad on whether or not…

Attitudes and Beliefs My coping methods have been to put a lot of effort and energy into mastering difficult, sometimes dangerous, accomplishments. I first became a ballet and modern dancer and then later a firefighter and paramedic. If I could do something many could not I felt validated and valuable. Being immersed in difficult tasks and challenges seemed to help me to feel I had some control of my life and failure was never an option. I know longer use this counter productive coping…

The Ethical Dilemma It is an impossible decision to take someone’s life, even if it is an act of mercy or love. Watching a friend or family member suffer from injuries that essentially confirm their death makes it hard not to want to end that suffering. There is no way to completely justify the intentional death of any person, especially a loved one, because an outcome of death is a permanent one. There is no way to take that back or change your mind once the decision is made. Most people…

Combatting the Tough Times Until one has actually experienced some difficult times, it is a very difficult thing to imagine or empathise with. But if the marriage lasted the average life expectancy, that could potentially be a 50 to 60 year relationship. In that time, anything could happen and it is important to be prepared for that eventuation. Ask these questions of each other by using some examples such as illness, business failures or financial hardship: • How would I react? • Am I prepared…