Living Things

into the person I am today?” As I thought about this topic I thought, “Hmm obviously my parent and family, coaches, teachers, activities/sports etc have shaped me,” but, for some reason I couldn’t put into words how they’ve shaped me. So, I chose one thing about me that people in my life have shaped, and that’s my misophonia or selective sound sensitivity syndrome. My parents and brother are the reason that I have acquired misophonia, and from time to time I resent them for that. I think my…

Living In a dorm has been a big transition from living at my parent 's house. There are some things that I like and things I don 't like at both places. From the people I live with, to the rules, I have to follow. Both my dorm and my house have their pros and cons. If there is one thing I hate the most, it 's being in dirty places. Well in the dorm, it 's very dirty. It 's not just the messes every once and a while in the hallway, but the dirt no one sees. Like how dirty the bathrooms are.…

Dyslexia is a learning difference, a combination of strengths and weaknesses which affects the learning process in reading, spelling, writing, and sometimes numbers. (H. T. I., & MARK, B. Q 1974) The next thing is the cause of dyslexia. Which is the defective migration patterns can lead to several types of development defects such as this. (O 'Brien, J. C., & Solomon, J. W. 2011) Sometimes certain conditions only happen in certain sexes or certain cultures. But with dyslexia it is different. It…

happiness, money, cars and any other thing that can be the aim or mission of someone. It depends on the people and not all people have same definition of success. Nowadays, many debates were held to discuss about these two variables, which were beauty and success, are related and correlate to each other. Many studies had been…

decided that I’d had enough rules for a lifetime. Immature, irresponsible, vulnerable and determined to make it work, I decided to move out of my grandparent’s house and into an apartment of my own. I would be able to make my own rules and do my own thing without anybody else interfering. It didn’t quite happen like I had imagined it would. There were a lot of bumps along the way but it really turned me into the mature, responsible adult I had always wanted to be. Even though the bumps included…

or reading the news about crisis or conflict there is usually a death toll given, for many including myself we look at it as numbers when we should all look at them as humans like you and me who are now gone. As humans we usually like to sugar coat things…

louder that speaks about your bank account. Most people buy things as just something to do here in America. We are a particularly wasteful society. There is an uneven distribution of wealth and the poor can live right in the same neighborhood as the ultra rich. Most of the people here plan their lives around what will make them successful. They use the word success as a way of saying “well off enough to buy everything I want”. When the thing that will make you happy is what you should be doing…

genuine concern and compassion towards their dilemmas. When people think of a counselor, they view it as someone who is there to listen and solve all their problems. But the thing about a counselor job is to help the client realized their potential by helping them with the…

more thankful for what we have. I think that people are dissatisfied with themselves, their lives, and what they have because humans are jealous and greedy beings. That is how God has made us. We always want what we don't have, and once we get the thing that we wanted we…

song has that quote at the end of the song to portray what would happen next. 2000 "This Is The Thing" I don't know if you notice anything different. It's getting dark and it's getting cold and the nights are getting long And I don't know if you even notice at all That I'm long gone And the things that keep us apart Keep me alive And the things that keep me alive Keep me alone This is the thing I don't know if you notice anything missing Like the leaves on the trees or my clothes all over…