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Tuesday, 02 June 2009

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Wednesday, 21 January 2009

Trophy Kids

      I've noticed lately that some people really have a had bad feeling about our generation. I've heard line after line of how "Kids these days are rewarded for picking thier noses!" and "They'are not just kids, their 'Trophy Kids'." Their sarcasium has earned my curiousity.
     Now I know this is a little bit of an exaggration but is it true? Are we really softened by our parents and their praise for us to just be, well, us. I can see where people who don't even try, and get anything they want, could fit into this category but have I, and many others, been giving a bad name because of some idiots?
      I was reading a book and I found an interesting fact in it. It read "A ten-year-old in the early 1900's has the maturaty of a twenty-five-year-old now." This didn't really surpris me for some reason. Around my neiborhood I probably couldn't tell the difference of attitude between a young-adult and a child.
      The thing that bugs me though is that i'm a steroe-type. Just because of some kids, i'm officially like them. Doesn't matter who I am, to most people. If i'm not over twenty-five, i'm still considered a child. Sometimes I wonder if people will ever stop judging others.
      I remember in 5th grade when we had a sub in ourclassroom, and the kids just went crazy! They disrespected him, trashed eveything, and created spit-balls that flew across the room like canonballs. The man never came back to sub at our school again, from what I heard he'd quit teaching entirely. All the next subs that we had refused to sub us ever again. I look back at it now and cringe. I was one of those brats. I drove a man out of a job he loved.
      Maybe thats what people mean.  Childeren don't have respect for anything anymore. I could see that, I see things happen all the time that envolve disrespect. I don't think that most of us care anymore. But are we that bad that everyone else has given up on us? Are we that unsaveable?

Monday, 19 January 2009

Just a Smile

Today I was just walking the streets of my big city alone, when I stopped into my favorite coffeshop. It's nice and quiet, it's not a large place and there isn't alot of repeating costumers, but for some reason I love the place. So, I was waiting in line when a man came up with his coffee to get a package of sugar. I smiled and turned to look at his face. It was old and worn out. The small beard growing on his triangular chin was peppered with white and black hairs; so was his hair. The wrinkles on his face showed many years of laughter and tears.
      When he saw my smile he looked at me as if I was the last of some endangered species. I was puzzeled but I didn't ask any questions, and he slowly turned around and went back to his seat.
      Soon after, I got my coffee and sat down across the room from him. I tried not to stare, but there was something about him. There was something there that made me wonder. I noticed his shoes were old and worn out, just like his lonely face. Then he caught my eye, and yet again I smiled. This time he smiled back, and it wasn't on of thoses half-smiles. It was a real honest smile. I looked away and finished my coffee.
      Just as I was getting up he suprised me by coming up to me.
      "You're a very rare site around these parts," he said, "I just wanted you to know that your smile made me want to live another day, and it made me rethink if there actually are nice people in the world like you."
      And then he left.
      A smile is the littlest thing that a person could ever do. Is it so rare to find a person who smiles anymore, just because they can? Are people that intwinded with their own lives that they have forgotten what its like to be considerate and kind?
      Smiling in my family is like breathing. There's never a moment when we don't. I guess thats where I get it from. It's just natural to me. I didn't think that a simple smile would do so much for one person. I guess it's all the little things that in life that make it whole. I didn't realize that one smile could turn someone's day around...
      And just a smile lead to all this...

Sunday, 18 January 2009

Hey guys! I'm new to this site so if you guys would give me any tips at all about making my site that would beyond helpful:] Im from Massachusetts and im 15. And as you can guess i love softball, haha. :]