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The Most Valuable 15 Lessons I’ve Learned in My 30 Years of Life
No matter how many degrees we have or what kind of education we received, there are some things that only life can teach us. So I this story I’m going to share with you what life has thought me so far.
By Linda Williams6 years ago in Motivation
Free Thoughts
As the blood moon settles in my mind the only thing that I can think of is blood. Why do you ask? I feel like the sweat I shed is simply an illusion of blood leaving me empty just like the blood moon that glows the sky. You work to be the best you, that you can be. When you fail do you blame yourself? Do you fallback from completing something that you felt was a fail? Or do you get up and try again? Why do some people think those of us that take time to lay on the ground and re-play our failures? Is it okay to try to understand the 'why' of the failure? Even if it doesn't make sense, even though I may never know why I failed, it should be okay to embrace the fact that I have fallen. You give the sweat/blood time to dry. Getting right back up with no plan is never a good plan.
By Nia on Air6 years ago in Motivation
My Story
My life has never over the top normal. I guess there's no such thing as an ordinary life. Health problems have always been a big part of my life, whether they were my problems or not. For almost as long as I can remember my dad has had health problems. Then a few years after my dad's problems began, my Grandmama got cancer, and it wasn't long before she passed. About a year after she passed, my Pawpaw got cancer too. While I loved both of them, and I miss both of them very much, my PawPaw had more of influence in my life. I was always considered a PawPaw's girl. He was pretty much my go to person. He would always help me with homework, tell me stories from when he was little, or about random things that he would research. So being young and not knowing what was going to happen next, it was confusing for me. I never knew how to handle things, especially when I would see my dad going through an episode. A lot of the times my older sister would try to protect me from what was happening. My mom knew that I had to grow up at some point though. So after about a year, my mom began to let me help out, even if that just meant help out with my younger siblings. Whenever I got into high school I knew that I had to make the best of it. I know that a lot of the times that when people hear what I've been through and what I have done they think it's amazing. When I got into high school I joined the JROTC program. In the JROTC program I joined the Rifle team, got involved as much as I could, learned to fly an airplane, had my first solo, and this year I became the CO of the unit. It's crazy to think everything out of the JROTC unit happened in just four years. Even though a lot of good came out of these four years, I also had my challenges. I lost my best friend, got rejected by the rest of the friend group, accidents happened and a few of my friends passed, had my own medical issues, struggled with grades, had one of the worst breakups, and became lost. About midway through my Junior year I lost hope. I didn't know what to do and I had no idea why any of this was happening to me. After years of not having answers about my dad and my grandparents, and everything else, I became lost. I lost myself and I didn't know what to do. Soon I forced myself to get so caught up in school and JROTC that started to become more and more numb. I wasn't sure what to do until I met someone. He came into my life unexpectedly. We became best friends, he got me to go back to where I was raised. and brought out a different side of me. Now, I know that it sounds like a typical high school thing, but sometimes meeting someone can change your life for the better. There is no guarantee that anyone will stay in your life, but even if it's temporary, people can change the way that you look at life. That's what he did, he changed the way I looked at like while bringing me back to my roots. People come and go, but even if they leave, sometimes you still have to take and use what they taught you. You see, in the past four years of my life, I have learned a lot and done a lot. However, the biggest lesson that I have learned it that it's not about what happens to you in life, it's about what you do and make with it. Trust me, I know that it's a lot harder said than done. My advice to y'all is that even if you have a hard life, you make the most of it. It's all about perspective. If you look at all of the negative in your life, it's only going to bring you down. However, if you look at the positive things, even if they are really small, it will make a difference. A lot of the times it is the small things in life that matter most and keep you going. THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT!! If you look I know that from the outside and a brief explanation it doesn't sound like a whole lot. Not only that but I know that almost all of it is easier said than done. And I guess you never truly know what someone is going through until you actually step into their shoes. Keep your head up though. If you make the most of what you have, life will get better. It might not be immediate but it will happen. Keep going. Don't give up. Make the most. Love like crazy. Keep your head up.
By Grace Sharp6 years ago in Motivation
I was a Closet introvert. These were the Repercussions.
Sometimes you have a narcissistic personality. Sometimes you want to be the highest in the room. But unbeknownst to you, something inside you dies, rotting slowly until you find yourself, alone and empty. This is a mistake that I committed for years until 2020. I changed my ways and started experiencing new things. And I have found a new kind of happiness, the happiness I never felt before.
By Pranay Mishra6 years ago in Motivation
what I've been doing and miss during quarantine.
Before the world was ending, at the very beginnig of the Covid-19 Pandemic, life was busy. For me, I was just a high school senior sitting in social class being told of a virus that seemed so far away in a land I didn't know much about. Then it was everywhere. It is everywhere. The world has been pushed into isolation, into spare time, into patience.
By Jennie Harluk6 years ago in Motivation
Say Something!
Imagine how many times a day you let opportunities to use your voice pass you by. You justify silence as being polite, not wanting to make waves, you wonder, "is what you're about to say better than silence?" (quoting Scot Moldenhauer), afraid of what others might think, or you can feel that no one wants to hear it.
By Nancy I Bagley6 years ago in Motivation
My Life of three questions
I woke up this morning, wondering what I should achieve in my life, what abilities I have that I might discover. I guess this is a start of something new. I am about to share to the whole world, that we can change things around for something good. Many people in my life always ask this question: what’s your skills, what are your desires to be in the future, what is the negative life that can turn it around to something good? Well I still trying to find out those questions to an answer. Everyone wonders what makes them happen of who they become and finding out their abilities. It took me some time to discover those answer to those three questions.
By Petra6 years ago in Motivation
We Need To Remember What We've Forgotten When This Is Over
COVID-19 has taken over the world at such an astronomical rate, negatively altering lives across the world and rightly earning the term pandemic. As of March 28th, 2020 at 10:53 AM EST (according to Google), the current worldwide total of confirmed cases sits at 614,136 with a death toll of 28,251 and cured cases at 133,624.
By Dalton Ryder6 years ago in Motivation
JUST STOP, OKAY? IT HURTS A LOT!
We all have been in a situation where we can't handle it anymore. We humans, can’t handle pain anymore. Some people don't know how much pain we have in our lives. In our hearts. In our minds. You just want to keep hurting people with words. You don't realize the pain you are causing other people. Please stop with this at once! You, yes you, you are no one to be judging people how to live their life. Or how to dress. You are nobody to judge. Most of us like to say hateful comments not knowing if they do or not hurt the person receiving it. Let me just ask you one question, why would you even say words like this to another person? You don't know how they are living their life. You don't know if they are struggling in life. You don’t know if they have a proper meal to eat. You don’t know if they have enough food of water to survive. You judge on the outside. You never see a person on the inside. Whenever you see this you are probably saying to yourself in your mind “I wouldn’t want to be with that person because he looks poor” What if they are struggling with financial problems? No! you just want to judge. You are just hurting them instead of trying to help them. Trying to make them feel better. Like they do belong here. You don't know how they are getting treated at home.
By Liliana Moreno6 years ago in Motivation
