How You Remind Me

towards enlightenment is explained by right mindfulness; remember to come back to the present moment. While we focus on paying attention to the ideas that keep us in the present moment, it is also important that we be mindful of the things we say and the how we listen to one another. Right speech highlights the importance…

was much more appealing to me in the way the game was played and the teamwork needed to play. It could also be fact that my dad told me I needed to play, which was fine because I wanted to play anyway. This sport is baseball, an All-American sport played by athletes who are not afraid to put themselves in front of a 100 mile per hour ball. Baseball takes a great amount of one specific skill, hand-eye coordination. This skill is very hard to master, but is wonderful once you have a good grip on…

we are working on something I don't enjoy, I try to remind myself that if I keep a positive attitude, it will make for a better experience. My career goal is to do something I love that also helps people, and brings joy to them. I have observed that people do best doing what they love, and I want to always do my best. It is always more fun to work with someone who loves what they do. CTE has show me that you can always do what you want if you love it. We are given the support and push from our…

from all sorts of places. Most of the time, you find such lessons in schools, homes, churches, and even in nature. These places are all good and well, and I been exposed to many moral truths inside the confines of them. Yet, people do not necessarily view work as a place of learning. I am proud to say this is not true for me, as some of my most important lessons came at my part time job at HyVee. I vividly remember the first time I truly appreciated how HyVee helped shape who I am as a person…

The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Braken is a book of loyalty, adventure, trust, friendship, self-sacrifice and even fear. The author wants us to believe that though some journeys are dangerous, involving sacrifice, even if they’re not what you had hoped, it’s not about what happens at the end, it’s about the very journey itself. Ruby Daly is the main character of this book, along with Liam “Lee”, Charles or “Chubs” and Suzume or “Zu.” In the beginning of this book, Ruby was trapped inside of a…

With no other choice, Jane is forced to live with her aunt and cousins, the Reeds, at Gateshead Hall. Jane is treated terribly, her aunt hates her, John (cousin) continuously abuse the girl, and even the servants reminds Jane that she’s worthless. Jane has absolute hate for the Reeds saying how she would never come back if she left however there was no place…

Wife’s Denial I watched him. My eyes followed him as he took every single sip. “You really shouldn't drink that much you know,” I said softly, almost like I was afraid of him. He didn’t bother glancing up or acknowledging what I said and kept drinking. Tonight was the dinner party, where we announce our baby’s gender to our friends. Everyone was coming over to our house at half past seven and I haven't gotten ready still. My arms were painted, colours of black and purple. “I can’t let anyone see…

experience never truly left me, despite my trying to pretend it never happened. During this time when their fighting was at it’s worse, I blamed myself, and thought things that a thirteen-year old shouldn’t have told herself, and did things that she shouldn’t have. Through this experience, however, I began to find myself in this new mindset of “someone has it worse than you”, which is something a friend of mine came to indirectly remind me. It wasn’t a message meant to tell me to stop wallowing…

The unicorn that Voldemort was sucking on when Harry was in the Forbidden forest was saving Voldemort’s life. Whenever you drink the blood of a unicorn you can save your life immediately even if you are 2 seconds from death. The unicorn is a magical creature in Harry Potter because it saves anyone’s life that is trying to regain everything. If the unicorn is so magical that you have to kill it to drink the blood out of it. Voldemort is a horrible man for trying to stay alive by using animals as…

water hydrates the body and brain, which helps you cope more effectively with stressful situations. Eating a “rainbow of foods,” as well as more fresh vegetables and fruits, will ensure that she is getting a wide variety of different types of vitamins and minerals. Eating every four…