Balancing School and Personal Life Essay

situations do not help. Stories of people with good deeds are consistently associated with optimism. Life nowadays is full of unpredictable circumstances ;moreover, people's personal issues are making it worse. Therefore, people who are spreading smiles for the sake of making others happy, are the ones who should be highly rewarded for their persistence on spreading joy and hope. Viewing life from a positive prespective after all, is the first step recommended by heroes.…

I am not sure about any of you, but I hate change. In addition, I also love change. I am the type of person that is always looking to the future while desperately wanting to hold on to the past. I am so busy looking forward to what comes next that I often miss the present. By the time I realize that I enjoy the present it has become the past. Today, my boyfriend pointed out something interesting to me. When we are children and we experience something for the first time the feeling is so…

ultimately want to obtain in life and why we do the things we do. If we have just the highest good, everything else would have little to none impact on us. In Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, he states that the highest good is happiness. I believe that he is right because happiness the underlying reason of why we live life. However, I disagree with Aristotle on what is happiness and how to achieve it. Instead of living a virtuous life, happiness, to me, means living a comfortable life filled with…

everyone who goes through it, being both stressful and nerve wracking. Even so, when you visit new places, you make new friends who can help you through difficult times. For example, I have made friends in four different states and in eight different schools, most of whom I still speak…

or does it just happen? Well, John Stuart Mill, a autobiography writer, believes that contentment can not be found, if one seeks for it. In Mill’s own words, “The only chance it to treat, not happiness, but some end external to it, a the purpose of life.” In the autobiography, “Chapter V, A Crisis in My Mental History: One Stage Onward” by John Stuart Mill, Mill claimed that one will find happiness by the way, not when one is searching for it. Mill stated that “those only are happy who have…

leisure differently the meaning behind the two still resonate: “joyful feelings of freedom, fulfillment, and significance” (Kelly and Lane 460). No matter how leisure time is spent it is ultimately for the bettering of the person. Whether it be at school or at work there are times when all humans are full of stress, jam packed with work, and think that there will never be time to get everything done. This is why leisure is so important and why time needs to be budgeted accordingly for it. The…

demonstrates that trauma does not need to be entirely destructive in a person’s life but that it can actually help a person grow in different ways (Rendon, J. 2015). Post-traumatic growth is not about returning to the previous state of being prior to traumatic suffering; but rather about the deep and meaningful life changing process that includes psychological shifts in thinking and relating to the world that contribute to a personal process of change (Baillie, S. E., Sellwood, W., & Wisely, J.…

and families were a part of my daily life as we created memories together of holidays, festivals and other events that were held in our village as a way of enjoyment and entertainment. However I was soon going to have to adjust to a new way of life and change which was the opposite of how I wanted things to be. My parents fled Somalia as the country grew into civil unrest to find a better place that not only was peaceful but prosperous as well. Life wasn’t easy in Kenya but they…

Reading books and listening to songs can be related in many ways. They can have emotions or feelings, messages, etc. But in the novel, The Giver, and the song, “Utopia” by Chris Jones both explore value of freedom and the power of creativity. The song includes the value of freedom in a way that the people in a utopia get to dream of the perfect world. The song includes the power of creativity because the people in a utopia colors, the environment around them, etc. The novel, The Giver, and the…

important aspect in my life is to do what makes me happy no matter what anyone else may think. In order to have a life full of enjoyment and satisfaction, I need to take risks and do what I want. Therefore, the poem “Invictus” fits with my views of a happy life because invictus means unconquerable. The opposite of an invictus person would be someone who just gets by in life and follows along with the crowd, which is described in “The Unknown Citizen”. A happy life is a life lived like the person…