Never Give Up For Your Dreams

Isn’t college where every high school graduate would like to go?  But having to give up the idea makes any dream seem impossible. Never think that life is closing doors on you, just keep searching because there will always be an opportunity for you.

In life opportunities will come in its right time and can surprise you at your hardest times. We all have big dreams and can sometimes seem impossible to actually live them, but the most important thing to do is to never give up. It can take years for the dream to come true, but searching for opportunities will be the only way to make them real. There will be times where giving up will come in your mind, but Morris never gave up. His co-workers laughed at him and would tear up his written pieces. It may have seemed like a decade for Morris for his dream to actually become real and the one thing he always did was looking for opportunities all the times. It’s important to always have motivation and strength to chase your dreams. We all have to go through the toughest times in one point life, but in the end everything gets better. Never thing something is impossible if you picture yourself being successful never give up and give your best.   

Morris agrees. This is what Morris says in his essay. According to Morris Mchawia Mwavizo, in his essay “There Is Always a Way Out”, life will always give opportunities in its right time. Before becoming a writer Morris always pictured himself a writer and work in a media house until his life changed went his parents split up. It was then when he knew that he wasn’t going to attend college. After that happened Morris began working and would be sometimes broke. But that didn’t stop him because he would write in anything just to keep on doing what he loved. There were people who would laugh at him for writing in anything, but at last his dream of the lifetime came true.  He became certified and now has published in magazines and worked for 3 media houses. The journey was long for Morris, but he realized that there will always be a solution for everything no matter how long it will take us to find an answer.

Overall, in life everyone in life wants to live their dreams. Going through the journey isn’t going to easy since many opportunities will close, but if you keep looking there will be an open door. Even if people don’t believe in you it can make you doubt in yourself, but everything will pay off when you start living your dream. It can even be more than what someone can expect if there’s dedication. At the end the most important thing is to believe in yourself and never stop looking for a chance.

Don't Loose Yourself in the Darkness

Have you ever lost someone special in your life? Losing a parent is the worst and can change a person completely. Hurting yourself is never the solution. Never keep anything inside of you it only makes things worst.

It’s true if we don’t speak up about our problems no one will know if we need help. There are still people today that are too afraid to look for help and their solution is to hurt themselves. Teens are the ones that cut themselves to feel better and try to ease the pain they have inside. Others do different things to forget about their problems, but the reality is that their pain is still going to be there until they find help. To heal the only way out is to break the silence and speak about your pain. Sometimes we think that not saying anything won’t make a difference because things can better without having help. I’ve been one of those persons, I just thought that nothing was going to change because I have been holding my suffer for months. At last I realized that I didn’t want to suffer anymore and went to talk to my mom. It feels good letting out what is inside you because then you will feel a big weight of you. Overall, if time goes by and theirs still suffering don’t wait another day; instead, go and start healing.

An author from a This I Believe essay agrees. According to Dani Weathers, in her essay “Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace”, silence will never help our problems to heal. She talked about the outcome of her depression and stress she had when her father passed away. Hoping to ease the grief, Dani would cut herself and led her to be addicted to self-injury. Not having the family support made her feel lonelier and was even scared of who she was becoming. It was until a former boyfriend opened her eyes by telling her that it’s been four years her father died and it was time to move on. Everything changed when she took the decision to tell the world that she had depression. Now she is a new girl that is smiling and laughing instead of hurting or crying. 

Life may seem worthless when we lose someone very special for us. The easiest solution we make is to hurt ourselves physically. Silence only makes things worst because we are the only ones that know our suffer. Everyone will start judging you without knowing the truth and even our own family will turn their backs on you. Before starting to look for help be sure it’s something that you really want to do.  It can be one of the best choices and can be a step to start healing.

Choose Wisely

Who said life will be easy? Nobody is prepared for what coming in their life. As we grow up there are decisions may frightened us, but it’s up to us to live it any way.

I, too, believe that we are the one who will choose how to live our own life. It’s true once we are older decisions become a big part of our lives. Making a decision can turn out to be the reason why our life changes for good or bad. For example, when I got accept in a university I had to take the biggest decision. It was either go directly to a 4-year or attend community college. My decision was to attend community college and it turned out to be a good decision because I can take the classes to transfer. It surprised my family, but most important was that it’s my life and I will choose what the best is for me. I also had taken some bad decisions and I have learned from my mistakes thanks to those decisions. Most of us have to agree that we blame other people for our actions. I have to agree with Shelby when she said “that you are the author of your life”. It’s true we are the ones who make our life and have to realize that most of our life will be based in decisions.

Shelby agrees. According to Shelby, in her essay “Your Life”, life can be live in any way since it’s full of decisions.  She believes “that you are the author of your life” and it’s up to us on the choices we take since every person lives it their way.  Shelby still has moments where she thinks of what would the outcome be if she had chosen the other way of the decision she made. Describing the time where she was question about the color of crayon she picked up was used as an example to prove her point. Instead of going with the decision she took at the end Shelby ended up doubting herself. From that experience she learned that we can doubt in the things we do and end up second guessing our decision. Shelby realized that either choosing the right or wrong decision in life at the end we can be right in either choice we make.  

Don’t be afraid to make a decision. In life we may never know if choosing the right or wrong decision was actually the best choice. At the end the only important thing is that no matter what happens it’s on us how we want to live our life. Doubting can come in our mind when we don’t know what to do, but as long as we feel it’s right then stick with it and don’t let anyone question your decision. 

The Results of Catcalling

Every day there are women getting catcalled and continue to walk after being hurt because of the names men call them by. Catcalling has been a big issue for women which can lead to making them feel insecure everywhere they go. There are two sides of catcalling the good and bad one. The good side of it is when it’s meant in a romantic or friendly way when a boyfriend and friends say it. But when women walk in the streets that is when catcalling is bad. Men will begin approaching and start calling them names or begin to insult them if women don’t pay attention to them. In the news, there have been stories where teenage girls or woman are kidnapped in the streets and have been raped. The video “Walking Home” is very realistic because it hasn’t ended. It still exists and puts women in danger each time because you don’t know how far men can go with their catcalling. The purpose of this video is to show that women who get cat called never say anything when they are being catcalled; instead they just keep on walking face down to the ground. It also points out how women want people to not call them names based on their appearance, but by their identity which is their name. In the video each woman would say their name and what it symbolizes who they really are and what describes them.

 The other YouTube film called “Shit Men Say” purpose is to influence men to do two things. The influential things are for men who catcall to stop it, and show the other part of men ways to prevent street harassment. During the video it shows how dumb men look like when they catcall. It also points out how their own friends may feel or think about them when they catcall. This video is to make men aware men that catcalling isn’t a compliment, but a form of harassment towards women. Another thing this video wants the audience to know is that catcalling should end. This video can be shown to that one friend men have that catcall, and make him realize how stupid catcalling is.  Women will tend to think that all men are the same and will just approach them to catcall. They still haven’t wondered what will happen if a man hears someone catcalling and decides to defend the woman. Things can get really ugly, but if that’s what they need in order to stop then let’s hope they learned the lesson.  Men only catcall when they’re with friends and see a woman walking alone. The only times men won’t catcall is if they’re alone and if a woman is with someone. That is when they will think twice before doing it. In this video it even shows how friends can react or say when one of them catcalls. I’m sure if friends really do that they will feel so dumb and regret it.  

Loving and Accepting Ourselves as Women

The truth is that the media has been part of many women and teenagers lives. The importance of self-image has grown during the past years. Now women and even teenagers are copying what they see through TV. The video “Doll Face” is about a robotic woman trying to look identical like the woman that was on TV and for trying too hard, she broke. This video is really relevant still today because there are women trying to change the way they look for something they see that is acceptable in society. The message of the video is that going over your limit can hurt you at the end. Teenagers are beginning to change the image at a young age now days. Media is the main cause for self-image insecurities in females. They create an image about women which can lead men to think that those are the kind of women they want. Throughout the years I’ve noticed the impact of media in self-image. For example; the famous Kardashians, they have their own show and women admire them because of their image. Now the Kardashians have launched a clothing, and make-up line. They know they have many fans who will want to wear similar clothes and make up as them. From the comments I’ve seen, the most common ones are “you’re beautiful “or “I wish I had your life” on Instagram. This shows that the women or teenage girls who comment on this aren’t satisfied with their self-image.

Each woman criticizes or pictures themselves way different from reality. The video “Dove Real Beauty Sketches” is about an FBI forensic artist that drew different women based on the way they view their beauty, in contrast to how other people described them. In the video all the women were shocked to see the picture of how they described themselves to how another person sees them. Each woman saw themselves with a lot of imperfections which made them feel uncomfortable with their own self-image. The videos purpose is to make women embrace their beauty and to appreciate themselves. In the description of the video, Dove stated that around 4% of women around the world consider themselves beautiful. This means that 96% of woman around the world are not confident with their self-image.

Not only body image can be the reason of insecurities, but media makes men form negative attitude about image form towards women. This can be a reason of why appearances and body image is another example of social injustice. Body image hasn’t been an issue for me because I learned to accept myself the way I am and that it’s better to have different qualities than others. If I would change my self-image just to look better or feel comfortable then I would just be the same as the rest. As long as I feel comfortable and confident about myself, then that is enough for me because I don’t really care what is shown in the media. Instead, I just laugh about it because it is showing not only teens, but also younger girls to think it is okay to be the same as everyone else.

Begin to Appreciate

            In the YouTube film, “Miniature Earth” its purpose was to make people appreciate the things they have and be thankful and to think twice before whining. The video pointed out that if we have a refrigerator, closet, a bed, and we are living under a roof we are richer than 75% of the entire world’s population.  This is important because this data shows that there is 25% of the population living off $1.25 each day or are completely homeless with nothing. This part of the video is when it makes people realize that they should be happy for everything that they have. When the video shows that there are 20 wealthy people from 100 living in the earth, it shows that the rest of the people are either living in hunger, basic sanitation, or in a place with no water source. The information above is important because this relates to the real world. Everything is related and shows that this will still be poverty in the world. There are still going to be people who will not be satisfied with what they have and it will just get worse. The video “Miniature Earth” does give more data, but the most important is that there still people who don’t know how to appreciate what they have. For the video “Miniature Earth” the tone was set to be serious and somber because it really wanted to get the audience’s attention. The audience can be anyone because the creator of the video wants them to learn about poverty that exist, and give them a reason to be grateful after watching the video. It may have been done purposely because the creator of the video really wanted people to see the message of the video and take it seriously.

         The second film “First World Problems” was made with a sarcastic tone since it makes fun of how people look when they whine about the most meaningless things. This video was made for those friends or family members that just need a reality check and make them see how stupid they look. It also points out how there are people that exaggerate for every little thing that seems very meaningless to even care about. Towards the end of the video it gave 3 solutions for the people who over react about little things. They showed a bridge to say get over it, a straw to mean suck it up, and a cup for shut the cup up.  The objects are obviously to give a message that can be used for people that aren’t grateful in a sarcastic way. The main message of the video was for those who don’t know how to value things to just stop and think of the rest of the people who are suffering. To actually put some time and compare their lives to the ones who aren’t that lucky as them. Even though it was made in a sarcastic tone in the end it actually changed the tone to more serious in order to actually get the viewer’s attention. 

How to Make Time for Assignments

  It feels bad to leave everything to the last minute. But managing assignments are hard for high school students and even college students. Most high school students just leave everything in the last minute. They know that they can still get credit for turning them in, but in college they will be working under pressure. A way that students can manage time for assignments is to break down the homework. A part of homework can be done in after school tutoring and the rest at home.College students should arrange their schedule a week before. This will help them see if the schedule they arrange is going to work. In college we have to use our free time and make it very productive. College students should go to the library or find another place to finish assignments while they wait for their next class to start. To keep up with assignments then, students should dedicate to do homework about 1-2 hours for a high school student. But in college it is doubled! I would recommend to have their days plan out so they can keep up with their deadlines. Another thing to do is to go to the library or a quiet place to get focused. When students focus they get things done more quickly. In the end, the most important thing is to always try the best to manage assignments well.

    At this moment, I've been managing my assignments ... not so well. I have done my homework on time, but I have to admit that recently my time management is becoming an issue. Now, I'm having trouble finding the time to do my assignments. Even though I may turn in some assignments a day late, I always ask my professors the day before if I can still turn it in. I'm always checking my grades to see if I have done my assignments and check what I'm missing. Since high school, I was one of those students who will turn everything on time. Having the time for homework during high school was difficult since I'm a big procrastination. The only time I would have time to do homework , was late at night and sometimes I would just regret it because I wouldn't finish.  Not finishing my assignments makes it harder for me because assignments would pile up.

   Now that I have started college, I'm trying to get used to my schedules and keeping up with it. I have to finish math, reading, and writing homework all at once. Since I have all these classes the same days. I can't be behind in any course because it will just get harder. If I finish my assignments first, then I would have more time to do other things. This is a challenge for me, but if I work hard to find time to finish my assignments then things will get better.