Another list.
1) Don't rely on other people to fight your battles; step up to the plate yourself.
2) You have to be able to appease others, but have a streak of "crazy" and creativity.
3) Determine what success means to you in the first place.
4) Don't be afraid to seek outside help when you know you are in way over your head. It may seems contradictory to item #1, but there's a difference between apathy and real trouble.
5) Fight for it.
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Explosion of Thoughts
Do I block it out? Do I fight what I know I can't conquer? Where the hell do I go from here?
You know what I love about the Rockies? They embody my blog. Truly. Right before the beginning of the season, in an exhibition game against the Seattle Mariners, they pulled it all out. They were down something like 11-5 and they came back to tie it. The best part? They were rookies. The pitcher had been sent back down to triple A just a few days before, and he knew he was facing an incredible team, some argue the best in AL West. They just fought. And fought. And fought. They didn't win, though. That's the part that I struggle with.
What happens when I fight and fight and fight and fight and I don't win? Cliche: go fight some more! No. I can't. It's over and done and I've lost. So I accept it. And move on.
Courage is not a lion, roaring and bearing his ferocity. Courage is that small voice at the end of the day telling you, "I will try again tomorrow." That quote, or some variation of it that I can't remember, is on Parm (my choir director's) door. Life is seriously going to punch you in the face over and over and over again. And then when you get back up, it's going to kick you down again. It's inevitable. But it is your duty to drop kick it right back. Will you let life push you along or will you travel your own speed?
This past year has been unbelievably hard. We've lost 5 warriors. Granted, I've only known three, each loss has been like a shot to the heart. Three of the five were suicides, and another one of my friends is incredibly suicidal at the moment. I don't understand it. This is the ultimate end of perserverance. Suicide is not a success. It breaks my heart. But, with each death, as with every challenge in my life, every moment of adversity, I need to fight on.
Fight on.
You know what I love about the Rockies? They embody my blog. Truly. Right before the beginning of the season, in an exhibition game against the Seattle Mariners, they pulled it all out. They were down something like 11-5 and they came back to tie it. The best part? They were rookies. The pitcher had been sent back down to triple A just a few days before, and he knew he was facing an incredible team, some argue the best in AL West. They just fought. And fought. And fought. They didn't win, though. That's the part that I struggle with.
What happens when I fight and fight and fight and fight and I don't win? Cliche: go fight some more! No. I can't. It's over and done and I've lost. So I accept it. And move on.
Courage is not a lion, roaring and bearing his ferocity. Courage is that small voice at the end of the day telling you, "I will try again tomorrow." That quote, or some variation of it that I can't remember, is on Parm (my choir director's) door. Life is seriously going to punch you in the face over and over and over again. And then when you get back up, it's going to kick you down again. It's inevitable. But it is your duty to drop kick it right back. Will you let life push you along or will you travel your own speed?
This past year has been unbelievably hard. We've lost 5 warriors. Granted, I've only known three, each loss has been like a shot to the heart. Three of the five were suicides, and another one of my friends is incredibly suicidal at the moment. I don't understand it. This is the ultimate end of perserverance. Suicide is not a success. It breaks my heart. But, with each death, as with every challenge in my life, every moment of adversity, I need to fight on.
Fight on.
Turning feelings into an essay...
Ralph Waldo Emerson addresses the concept of adversity in his quote, "We acquire the strength we have overcome." In many works of literature, characters face some type of adversity, often creating the climax of the work. Using novels, plays or other major works of literature, discuss what, in the face of adversity, causes some to succeed while others fail.
How odd, to create an essay out of my life question. Just recently, for "Cinderella" in which I play a stepsister, we have encountered what is known as "Hell Week". Sure, it may be hell, going through an entire day of school, picking up a regular homework load, and then going to rehearsal until 9 every night. Of course for me, I love to be busy, and so the homework doesn't scare me. It's the work, the resolve I must have. It's exhausting. I wrote what has become the most important 5-letter word in my life on my wrist. "Fight". I'll fight through losing my voice all week long. I'll fight through the mistakes I'll make onstage. I'll fight for it. Why? Because that's what I do.
How odd, to create an essay out of my life question. Just recently, for "Cinderella" in which I play a stepsister, we have encountered what is known as "Hell Week". Sure, it may be hell, going through an entire day of school, picking up a regular homework load, and then going to rehearsal until 9 every night. Of course for me, I love to be busy, and so the homework doesn't scare me. It's the work, the resolve I must have. It's exhausting. I wrote what has become the most important 5-letter word in my life on my wrist. "Fight". I'll fight through losing my voice all week long. I'll fight through the mistakes I'll make onstage. I'll fight for it. Why? Because that's what I do.
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Beloved
What makes some succeed while others fail?
Sethe believes she is finding solace and comfort away from Paul D in the discovery of the ghost of her daughter, Beloved. It is, however, in Beloved that Sethe finds her potential downfall. She is overtaken, overworked, overpowered by this girl, entirely helpless. Her past is haunting her no longer figuratively and in her memories, but directly through the torments of Beloved. It is not until Denver makes this realization and seeks outside help that Sethe is saved. Denver has never left the comforts of her own home, and so she breaks through her personal barrier in order to save another. Once through the physical barrier of her yard, she breaks through the barrier of community and asks for help. It is the assembly of women at 124 that eventually "banish" Beloved forever. Sethe succeeds only because others tried for her. Denver put her mother, who she formerly found annoying, in front of her own interests, and found something much more rewarding. Selflessness seems to be the key in this book.
Sethe believes she is finding solace and comfort away from Paul D in the discovery of the ghost of her daughter, Beloved. It is, however, in Beloved that Sethe finds her potential downfall. She is overtaken, overworked, overpowered by this girl, entirely helpless. Her past is haunting her no longer figuratively and in her memories, but directly through the torments of Beloved. It is not until Denver makes this realization and seeks outside help that Sethe is saved. Denver has never left the comforts of her own home, and so she breaks through her personal barrier in order to save another. Once through the physical barrier of her yard, she breaks through the barrier of community and asks for help. It is the assembly of women at 124 that eventually "banish" Beloved forever. Sethe succeeds only because others tried for her. Denver put her mother, who she formerly found annoying, in front of her own interests, and found something much more rewarding. Selflessness seems to be the key in this book.
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