In Our Time

but, the few days that you get time off makes everything worth it. The only work that you do on your time off is figure out how to spend it. In the article “You Don’t Need More Free Time” by Cristobal Young, he discusses the controversy about whether we want free time out of our busy lives to spend with family/friends or to just have time to spend with ourselves. On one hand, most will agree that without friends or family to spend time with, there is no value in the time that you get off. On the…

Long ago, a story was lost to time. Deep in the mountains of now Switzerland our story begins. On the outskirts of town, I wait and watch. My father is to be back any minute. Ever since the invasion from the ghastly northerners. We have been taken as slaves to work the fields for their unhampered appetite. When they arrived, they stripped us of our land and ranks. I would have been nephew to the king but when the northerners brought us into bondage, my uncle was murdered in front of the…

The film, ‘About Time’, directed by ‘Richard Curtis’ highlights the importance of valuing time and the significance of savouring every moment. Tim, twenty one years old learns that he can travel back in time. He relives a series of moments, but learns that you can not always change what is meant to be. The film teaches viewers to not let their past define who they are because everything is meant to happen for a reason. It also adds to the concept of moving forward through tough times as dwelling…

Safety and security is a big time subject in the Probation Department. It is a way to make sure that all Probation Officers are safe and alive and well. One thing I have found out is that we need to be sure that we are both safe and secure in every situation. Today I Recruit McKnight was given a paper from Instructor Limbrick on safety and security because I failed to follow protocol due to lack of judgement and made a mistake by reporting without a partner. It was irresponsible of me to report…

“Death radically alters our relationships with others. It can be seen either as the ultimate act of separation or the opportunity to rejoin others who have gone before us”(Kastenbaum, 2012, p.61). Death always changes our relationship with others it can be in a positive or negative way. For example; when a family member or close friend dies this situation tends to bring people together. On the other hand, death is not the right way to re-unite people; we should never wait until someone dies to…

Synthesis Essay “Wow, time has passed and things have changed.” There are many instances in life where we would realize this and wonder how much we have grown as humans. Unfortunately, life is not a stopwatch where we could press the go button and press stop whenever we want to. It doesn’t work that way. Time doesn’t stop and everyone is living their lives as we try to progress forward. However, that doesn’t stop us from looking back, because that is what photographs are for. It captures the…

with acceptance and without judgment. The tendency of the mind is to judge our experience as pleasant/unpleasant, good/bad, and then we attempt to avoid or numb out the experiences that we judge as unpleasant, such as grief. We can’t selectively numb our pain without also numbing positive emotions, like joy. See if you can allow the feelings of grief to be and simply notice them with compassion. When we can open our hearts to our suffering, we can begin to thaw the emotional numbness, which…

personally valuable in order to feel more fulfilled. So how can we begin to spend our money in a way that will make us feel more content with our purchases? Stephanie Rosenbloom writes an article titled “But Will It Make You Happy”, where she explores the link between our feelings of joy and how we spend money can affect how we feel overall. We have all heard of buyer’s remorse, but who knew that we could actually attribute to our happiness by spending money in certain ways? We as consumers are…

Growing up in Southern California we spent most of our summers at Lake Havasu and Parker. For as long as I can remember, getting to spend my summers on the lake with my close friends and family was what got me through the school year, knowing that for a full month I would have no cares in the world except for what adventures lay ahead of us. As the school year came to an end, all we could think about was getting to the lake to start our last summer together before we all ventured off in…

This letter has been a long time coming. So many times we have longed to put pen to paper but thought better of it. But the day has finally come. Our hearts are no longer full of hatred and anger but instead forgiveness and love. So with that, we want to begin by saying two simple words, thank you. Never would we have ever thought a time would come when we would find it in our hearts to thank you for all the pain you caused. Little did we believe we had the strength to trudge through the…