Marking Ourselves

 Life seems to not get any better as we grow older. We notice our surroundings more, the people we hang around with, and the restrictions that are not said but are heard in our hearts. So why would we be mean to people? Doesn't everyone already have a tough life as it is? So why are we mean to them?

  I have two classes in which I have two fellow classmates that are not as devolved in their brain as the rest of us. Although they do participate and are not necessarily not smart they do do things that bug my other fellow classmates. For example one of my classmates that is in my classes is ,what you would say, annoying. Although he does not bother me at all and has done nothing to rest of us, he some how's bugs others. His comments of negativity, like when the teachers asks us how our weekend was and he always comments terrible, are not called for but he can't help it, just like we can't help but breath. It's not like he means to be this way, just like we can't stop being ourselves. But just because he is this way it doesn't call us to mean to him. No my classmates don't bully him or torture him or even get close enough to him to somehow hit him in any way, but they do talk about him. They do laugh at him. They laugh at his voice or roll their eyes when he talks. This might not bother him, but it should bother the rest of us. He is just as equal as all the rest of us, so when do we stop being equal with him.

  While reading "The Curious Incident of The Dog in The Night-Time" I got a better understanding what happens in a boy who has a special way of thinking. We don't understand why they are who they are so we tend to look at the situation like a problem instead of just another thing that is part of the world. For example there is a boy in another class of mine that is as well special, but again not that big of a difference to us. Yes he may as well say things that are not meant to be said at that moment but again it's the way he is. Once he argued with a teacher about a topic, it was a pointless debate, but everyone knew the teacher was right and so did he. But this did not stop him from keeping debating. Finally the teacher said that he doesn't even believe what he's saying and he agreed but that it was necessary to be said. Everyone else was just annoyed and to be honest so was I. But there is a difference between just being annoyed about a person than making that person less than who you are. 

  People are different and we might not like that so much. They might also not like you either, but it doesn't make you a better person making fun at that person or less if you don't. 

  We all need to understand that just because we might be "better" than that person just thinking like that makes us less. We need to treat others like we want to be treated. Because the worst trait we have is what marks us not necessarily the good ones. It might sound harsh but you never hear people talking about others traits in a positive way. So treat others to your level and better because no one is better than anyone else.

Break You or Make You

 As we grow older we seem to find life even more difficult than the last. We see more of this cruel world. We see the hardships that are to come. We see our future and quite frankly it scares us. Life is not going to get any more easier than today, but if we grow as a person we will grow to deal with them.

  As students in high school we all believe that each day is a curse. That we have to wake up each and everyday to learn something that is not relevant to actual real life situations or that we need to deal with the horrendous day that is to come. There is never a day that I don't seem to see a boy or girl in Twitter complaining about school. Whether about their grades, classes, or/and teachers. I myself have done all of the above. But one day I came upon a revealing video, showed by a AVID speaker on a field trip, about a point of view by a teacher. This video showed me a true love for students a teacher has. How they want us to be better in life, to have big dreams. It was lovely. It made me think that school isn't a game. It is more than just a curse, it's our future.

  As students we say, "At least I did it!". Yes we did it but, so what? We didn't try our best. We didn't give it all we had. We didn't do what was expected. So how are we going to complain later on that our teachers aren't teaching us well when we as students aren't doing our best? How are teachers going to teach us anything if we don't show them what we are capable of. If they see that we are B students they will try and help us be A's students, but we won't truly learn anything if our capability is already a A. I, at times, don't do what is required of me to do. Yes I turn things in and get ok grades, but I'm never satisfied. And how could I if what I turned in isn't what I am capable of doing. Each and every single one of us can be better if we only try.

  Yes life is hard, and life can at times be frustrating but that shouldn't give us the reason to quit. So you may say, "But I tried and that's better than nothing". Yes it may be better than nothing but that is a state of mind for failure. If we all have that mental note that it's better than nothing, one day we will do nothing because you see that others don't do anything so why should you?

   Quitting is never the answer. We need to learn how to be big boys and girls and man up! Life is not going to get any easier at the rate we are living but what I am saying is that we can grow and mature and take responsibility in our life. Work a little more, try to give it another chance, and look at the good side of the problem. The only thing a problem can do to you is break you or make you, but that's all up to us.

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Pet Peeves

 As we grow older we pay more attention of our surroundings. What type of people we hang around, how people react towards you, and how others treat you. This especially happens in school. Sadly, you also notice it in your teachers, and how they are teaching you.

  A teacher can either be a good teacher, an ok teacher, or a bad teacher. No I am not talking about nice or mean teachers. I am talking about how well a teacher teaches you. Have you ever heard about that one saying teenagers say in eitherTwitter, Instagram, Facebook or any other type of media about teachers? That one saying saying "If all your students are failing it's not the students fault but the teachers". For example I had teacher in tenth grade who couldn't teach well. She was very nice and very patient but wasn't good at teaching. We had to teach ourselves everything! Those who didn't teach themselves failed. 

  There is also those teachers who don't help you learn but rather just give you the answers. Yes it will helps us with our problem and will give us the points we need to get a good grade on our homework. But what happens afterwards? What are the consequences? We fail our test, because the teacher didn't take her time to teach us the material well and we can't ask her for help during the test. This affects not only the relationship with the student and that teacher but with future teachers as well. The student will not learn and will keep asking the wrong answer instead of asking the right ones. We ask what's the answer to this question? Instead of asking how do I get this answer for this problem? As a student, I will try my best and push myself to look for the solution of the problem by asking questions that will help me accomplish the problem. Yes it will take more time to get the answer but during the test it will seem like a piece of cake.

  Yes I may to be the best person to talk about the teaching since I have not been a actual teacher. But I do know the perspective of a student and I know what a teacher should act and teach like since I have had my number of teachers before. I can strongly assume that being a teacher must be a hard job to do. But I strongly believe that if a teacher is being paid to teach us the least they can do is make sure we are learning what is thought isntead of assuming.

  Teachers are gift. They should be appreciated. But apart from being appreciated they should also be taken serious in all matters. They should as well take their job seriously as well. Our future lies in their hands, literally. What they teach us we will use in the future, and one day be thankful because they took their time to teach us well. 

My Reading Life

  As a reader I have grown so much in these couple of months, a big factor was that I started to read more during my free time. The books I have read are The Adoration of Jenna Fox, Jesus Freaks, The Infinite Moment of Us, Jumping Off Swings, Trance, Eleanor & Park, and I am currently reading The Curios Incident of the Dog In the Night-Time. This is a huge leap in my reading life comparing it to last year when I only read one book on my behalf which was The Fault In Our Stars. During the process of reading these books I have learned that there is some books that may not be appealing to us, and that's ok. It doesn't necessarily mean that the book is bad but that you have grown as a reader and need a higher reading level. For example one of the seven books I have read this year, The Infinite Moment of Us, was way below my reading level. I could tell how the book was going to end before it ended, I was never shocked by anything, and I felt as if it was too cliche to a romance book. One book though that I found a bit more challenging was Trance. This book was not hard in word choice or reading level wise but it was challenging in the sense that you really had to keep up with was said before and bringing it to the new topic. It made me connect the dots to what was once said. The book that I loved and will love will forever be Eleanor & Park. It is a book like no other. Once I got into it I couldn't let go of the book. It has everything you could wish for in a romance book, even a not so happy ending, but that's all up to you and how you want the story to end. Never have I read a book like this one, although I could say that it has a slight similarity to The Fault in Our Stars I. The sense of having a plot like no other but yet it was beautifully put together. Thankfully I find the time to read these intriguing books at night when I'm off to sleep. It helps me relax and enjoy my peaceful time I have for myself. What I would like to do in my reading life would be reading more challenging books, make my brain work a little more, so that I as a reader grow. Hopefully my goal will be made true and I will read at a much higher reading level.

  Reading to me has opened new worlds! I find myself reading a book so that I may escape this horrible world and enter a new one to which is controlled and precise to what something wants to be done. Reading is not just a pleasure in life but almost a need to me. It helps me hope for a better tomorrow because if that person in the book finds a happy ending so can I, right? Everyday I read something into a mind of someone else and it always fascinates me on how that persons thinks and writes. They are a creator of a person if you think about it and have given a character life I which he has the power to makes us hate it or love it. I am thankfull to have this skill that some people may not have. Reading a book is and always will be a gift to me that I will cherish.

Awesome

  You're about to sleep. You've done your usual routine noncommittally. Brush your teeth, flit to your war and inviting room, have set up your bed and got your covers all laid out, and have jumped implishly down onto your bed. You're smile was as big and ceaseless as the sun and was conspicuous. You knew Hypnos, god of sleep, was going to give you a good nights rest. The ecxcrusiating day you had wrought you and has finally come to it's end. End the misery of that day. The scary night was a beautiful thought. It beckons you to another world like a witch. Infact you could even say you were tired as a person who worked on a entire field of cotton on a hot summers day. Daytime has finally passed away and night is born. No longer was the horrible day and beautiful night coexisting.

  As you were falling into your deep slumber you hear a noise. A noise who has become horribly sweet in your life. The noise that used to haunt you when you were young has now become your best friend. Splat! Tick! Droop! Rain. The enemy of yours who has now become your best friend. The sound that will lullaby you to sleep just like the voice of your mother once did. Rain. A song in its own to claim. Hearing the similiar melody outside of your window makes you feel secured in its arms. The rustling of leaves, the whispers of the wind, and the tiny knocks on your window makes the sheet around you and your bed somehow even more relaxing than ever before riddancing  the day of today. Rain. A friend that decided to come and visit you at the right time, at the right place. Life at that moment can not get any better that that. Hearing the rain as you fall asleep is awesome!

#Writemycommunity

  A community is a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common. It is who we live with and share experiences with. Communities come in different places and sizes. A big factor in my life that is a community is my school, Lewisville High School. This matters so much to me because it is what shapes me to be now and in the future.

  High school consists of different types of people all coming together to learn and try to better in your position in life. As I grow older and get smarter each year in high school I see that we all are trying to reach a goal, graduating. We are all trying are best to learn, live, and love during these difficult time in our life. High school, our community as teenagers, shapes us to who we will be in the future and even now. Teenagers make mistakes and the learn. Teenagers hold back on life but learn to live. Teenagers are learned to hate but soon love because they see that everyone wants is love. We grow all together to be better for tomorrow.

  Communities are people coming together to support and make up that community. High school is all about support. Support from your family, friends, and neighbors to overcome this difficult hardship that they have went through or are currently in. This important community revolves what is outside of its doors and what's in the inside shaping you for the ouside world and making you stronger. When I am alone and feel as if life is hard I have to think about the rest of the thousands of kids who are going through the same situation as I am, and the millions who have overcome this difficult time. In high school I learn that you don't have to go through situations alone. In fact there is always someone there that cares about you and just need you to speak out, because a community is made up of a group of people going through a particular characteristic in common. This means that your never alone.

  Yes high school is hard, and there will be some people in the community that may not like you so much. Sometimes all you ver want to do is get out of this complex community and wing it in life. But we need to see the bigger picture. The bigger picture is the world that one day we will have to participate, a bigger community. We are being thought in this small community to be ready for the big one. A big community will always have it's bullies and hardships but we need to over look those troubles to see the beauty in the community itself.

  A community shapes us to who we will be. A community will always somehow push us to a greater community who will makes us stronger. But a community will also give us another reason to better. This matters so much because every where we go there always seems to be a community whether it's a town, classroom , or simply a neighborhood. Communities are always there to lift someone up or give that person a purpose. High school, a place you would least likely call a community but in reality may be the biggest of them all.