Happy Birthday to You

Pt. I Happiness is experiencing love. It doesn’t matter what kind of love it is, whether it is loving yourself, loving someone else, or having someone else love you. When we experience love, we experience happiness. There is a study in the world where people in Finland, Sweden, and Taiwan mapped where they felt their feelings. The intensity of sensation, or lack thereof, created a “body atlas” for the emotions. A depressed person lacked sensations all over the body, an angry person had…

has followed popular culture by using the phrases Merry Xmas or Seasons Greetings. Christians simply want to celebrate a birthday and if the public does not like to celebrate Christmas alongside the Christians they can simply not participate. Let us think for a moment about how it would feel on your birthday if no one could say, “Happy Birthday” Steve, Sally, or whatever name you place behind it. One might feel it is silly or get angry about it. That is how Christians feel, the right to…

talks about turning 11; even so, she understood that turning 11 is no difference between ages 1-10. She realized that birthdays do not represent any emotional growth. Rachel was waiting for a certain feeling to come over when she turned 11, however, when she woke up she felt like ten instead of eleven. She was looking forward to cake and her family singing the “Happy Birthday” song to her. Rachel’s day was ruined when the teacher Mrs. Price accused her of being the owner of an “ugly red…

When you grow up neglected of both parents in the house it can be hard on a child. Not everyone has the glory of a whole family, I am one of those kids. You search for having that wholeness that you see with everyone else’s family, even though you know it’s not possible. It might sound strange to some people but it’s powerful to me, the movie Lilo and Stitch holds my favorite quote and one of the reasons I value my family. Lilo states, “Ohana means family, and family means nobody gets left…

April 4th is my birthday. I turned 15 this year. I had a little party for my birthday and I invited a couple of my friends over. My friend Kammy and my best friend Alenia. Kammy bought me unimportant stuff but Alenia. She bought me a lot of stuff. My favorite gift of all time, my favorite animal, a turtle. It was a yellow-bellied turtle. So, Kammy came home with me after school, I had to do chores so she helped me do them, that took about a half hour to do. Afterwards, we went to my room…

written by Julia Darling in 2006. The story is about a mother living alone with her two daughters called Flora and Rachel. It tells about their tense relationship and how it all climaxes at the mother’s birthday party just because of a dress. Being a mother living alone with her family will never be easy. You will have a lot of things to take care of. Children always need a lot of attention and when there for instance is no father then the mother has to give extra much attention to her…

have divorced their spouse, regardless, they’re still family. Recently, during the Fourth of July, my mother decided to throw an early surprise birthday party for me. The original plan was to invite everyone to come to our house just to relax and watch the Grand Mound fire works. Then out of nowhere everybody inundated me and started singing Happy Birthday. What I remember most out of that day was not the fireworks or the parades, it was when I realised the main reason everybody actually came up…

Thomas House Today, if we see a homeless on the street, it isn 't strange anymore. In fact, in America 2013, 610,042 people were experiencing homelessness (The State of Homelessness, 2014); as the result, we can see a significant number through that report. Moreover, because the amount of homeless is too much, many charities have been established to be able to help the homelessness. According to me, one of the charities that I appreciate is Thomas House which is an Orange County non-profit…

believe that you can create your own identity and feel happy with the persona that you’ve created for yourself, but many times it’s difficult to create a mask without leaving cracks that your real identity wants to come through. Instead of living the way you want to, you live a lie that even you may believe is true. Throughout both the Great Gatsby and Richard Corey many characters including Nick, Gatsby and Richard Corey. Ultimately, these characters are prime examples that if you fail to…

restaurant are all things we enjoy doing. If you love Italian food, visit Olive Garden once. It is the most exquisite place to eat and is the finest restaurant in town with its excellent customer service, soothing environment, mouthwatering food, and hygiene. The food quality and variety is the most important thing in choosing a restaurant. Olive Garden delivers a great selection of delicious food and gives genuine Italian dining experience to its guest. If you like to try new dishes, Olive…