Back in my junior high years, there was a program called ZAP which means “zeros aren’t permitted”. When the program was first introduced, the school showed a video. This video gave off the impression to a, at the time, a 12-year-old girl that if you got any zeros in school that you would go to prison. This terrified me. I have never been a good student and I thought that something so little as a zero on an assignment meaning that I would go to prison was just something that was too realistic for me. Thankfully, going to prison over a zero was not a thing but back then I…
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Am I Committed to Change?
I remember the first time I lost a friend. She lived right down the street from me and even though she was weird, I remember her well. Her hair looked like mine. In the sun, it shined a bit blonde but the red can still be seen even on the brightest of days. Her teeth were a bit cooked like her personality, but she had the best imagination possible. We would make so many worlds in our heads. The sad part is that I don’t remember these stories, I just remember her. I remember her brother showing me what had been done with his teeth, I remember her basement where…
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Have Hope Like a Dreamer
I am a dreamer. Everyday I wake up and I start to daydream about life and where I am headed, only to be pulled back by reality and realize that some of those things may not happen. “I want to be an adventurer,” I say. I want to climb up a mountain, fight a bear, and come out of the fight unscathed. Or I want to be on Broadway and have an audience cheer me on. I could even be pirate fighting with swords and swinging on a rope to another boat and take their treasure, and be known as the best woman pirate ever. These are great and…
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A Desire To Change
Does Gratitude work? I feel like that is one question that a lot of people, including me ask. It’s almost like we don’t see anything more but something on our to-do list. I have been guilty of doing this. I told you all during my second week that I have never seen it more than that. Now, as we end gratitude, I can’t help thinking that I didn’t do all that I could to learn from this. I have struggled as many people have, but I kept on seeing gratitude as something that we need to constantly have on our list, and I’m not a fan of lists. When I…