Wisdom can mean many different things depending on a person’s perspective. Some people could think that wisdom is getting good grades, having a high grade point average, or having good SAT scores, but I think differently. In my opinion wisdom is not something that could be learned in school; in fact it is not something that can be taught at all. Wisdom is something that is acquired over time and experience. I have heard many times elderly people be called wise and I think it is absolutely true. The older you are and the more experiences you have the more wisdom you can acquire over time.
Being wise is different than being smart in my opinion. If someone is very smart and they get good grades in school they could not be wise at all. Some of the smartest people I know have no common sense whatsoever. I think that you can’t have it all so you are either really book smart, really street smart, or average at both. Even with that being said I still think wisdom is a different look on knowledge. Wisdom is not someone who graduated with a Ph.D., but more likely someone who experienced going off to war in Afghanistan. I believe that wisdom is learned through experiences and you have to find your wisdom for yourself. Wisdom cannot be taught from someone else it is something that you have to go out in the world and find for yourself.
I do not think that there is a way that you could test a person’s wisdom. Wisdom is not like taking a standardized test that is black and white. There are different levels and kinds of wisdom. There are many elderly people who have stories about things that they have experienced. Times have changed tremendously from the 1930’s and the people that are on the Earth now that are under the age of 60 will never know what it was like then. We need the elderly people to share their wisdom of the past with the younger people of the world that way their wisdom can be passed down from generation to generation.
The person I know that has the most wisdom is my grandpa. He is eighty-four years old and he has so many stories from when he was younger that he is full of wisdom. My grandpa did not have an easy life growing up he was put into an orphanage at a young age and stopped going to school in 4th grade. My grandpa does not have a very good education and he can barely read and write which just proves that you do not need a good education to be wise. He has experienced so many things throughout his life like growing up in an orphanage, working three jobs to support a family, and being able to experience his grandchildren and great-grandchildren. There are not many people in the world who can say that they are able to watch their great-grandchildren grow up and that is wisdom in my opinion. Wisdom is the experiences that you have in life, not the education that you have.
Friday, February 24, 2012
Saturday, February 18, 2012
Jobs
There are so many different jobs out there in the world and they are all somewhat important. If a random job was eliminated it would probably effect the whole world. It is crazy how everything in the world is linked and even if you have never even heard of the job that was eliminated it would probably effect you and everyone else in the world. Every job is created to benefit something and someone. Most jobs provide a service for people and without them the world would not be able to run as smoothly as it does. I would not say that one person's job is specifically more important than another's because they all benefit someone in some way. Although there are some jobs that are more intense than others and they are all important, but some are not as important as others.
For example, a doctor gets paid less than a major league baseball player, but the baseball player gets paid more. I am not saying that a professional baseball player is not an important job, but the world could survive without professional athletes. These professional baseball, football, and basketball players make millions of dollars every year just for playing a game. Same goes for actresses and famous musicians. They get paid a ridiculous amount of money just for people's entertainment whereas doctors save people's lives and even though doctors get a lot of money they do not get as much as famous athletes or musicians. I understand that our world would be very boring without these professional games, concerts, and movies, but they are not as necessary as doctors are. Both of these jobs are important, but a doctor is more important because without doctors everyone would be dying at such a young age and they would not know why. It does not go by the annual salary to determine how important a job is.
All jobs are important they just all do different things and have a different level of importance. From teachers to seamstresses to cashiers they all do a service that help everyone else. Although with technology becoming as advanced as it is there are many jobs that are disappearing. For example, now that many food stores and department stores have self checkout aisles they do not necessarily need any cashiers. If businesses are trying to cut back on payroll they can get rid of some cashiers if they have self checkouts. I think that in the future all stores will only have self checkouts and cashiers will be a thing of the past. Another job that I think will be gone in the next few years is mailmen. With the Internet and email no one writes letters to each other anymore. Even now people can pay bills online and they do not get anything in the mail.
There are many jobs out there and some are more important than others but they all have some kind of importance. There are also jobs that make more money than others. Being a senior in high school and trying to decide what i want to major in it is difficult to find a job that pays well and will be a good job in the future. If someone goes to school to be a mailman by the time they graduate there may not be anymore mailmen. Deciding what to major in is a big decision that will affect the rest of your life.
For example, a doctor gets paid less than a major league baseball player, but the baseball player gets paid more. I am not saying that a professional baseball player is not an important job, but the world could survive without professional athletes. These professional baseball, football, and basketball players make millions of dollars every year just for playing a game. Same goes for actresses and famous musicians. They get paid a ridiculous amount of money just for people's entertainment whereas doctors save people's lives and even though doctors get a lot of money they do not get as much as famous athletes or musicians. I understand that our world would be very boring without these professional games, concerts, and movies, but they are not as necessary as doctors are. Both of these jobs are important, but a doctor is more important because without doctors everyone would be dying at such a young age and they would not know why. It does not go by the annual salary to determine how important a job is.
All jobs are important they just all do different things and have a different level of importance. From teachers to seamstresses to cashiers they all do a service that help everyone else. Although with technology becoming as advanced as it is there are many jobs that are disappearing. For example, now that many food stores and department stores have self checkout aisles they do not necessarily need any cashiers. If businesses are trying to cut back on payroll they can get rid of some cashiers if they have self checkouts. I think that in the future all stores will only have self checkouts and cashiers will be a thing of the past. Another job that I think will be gone in the next few years is mailmen. With the Internet and email no one writes letters to each other anymore. Even now people can pay bills online and they do not get anything in the mail.
There are many jobs out there and some are more important than others but they all have some kind of importance. There are also jobs that make more money than others. Being a senior in high school and trying to decide what i want to major in it is difficult to find a job that pays well and will be a good job in the future. If someone goes to school to be a mailman by the time they graduate there may not be anymore mailmen. Deciding what to major in is a big decision that will affect the rest of your life.
Saturday, February 11, 2012
My Room (Blog for 3/12)
I think a room definitely describes who a person is. A person's room says a lot about them because it is where they spend most of their time. For example, my room is very colorful because I like bright colors like bright blue and green. I also have a whole bunch of pictures around my room because I like to look at them and remember all the good times I had with my friends. I have a huge wall unit across one side of my room and it is full of drawers, stuffed animals, trophies, and pictures. My room is very modern looking especially with my loft bed and couch underneath. My loft bed is like a bunk bed with no bottom bunk. At first my parents did not want me to get a loft bed, but I really wanted one so they finally gave me one once I was old enough. I love having my loft bed because it gives me a lot of floor space and I am able to have a couch under my bed. I definitely think my room is a reflection of my personality because it is very bright and there is a lot of stuff in it. It is normally pretty clean because I am usually a very organized person.
A room has a great effect on me, but I do not know why. I am very excited to decorate my dorm room when I go off to college. I can't wait to set up my closet and desk and hang up all the pictures of my friends. I think a dorm room is a lot of the experience of college. Bring an only child sharing a dorm room with someone next year is going to be a very different experience for me, but I am excited about it. I hope I get a nice roommate who is like me and one that I can get along with.
Whenever I am home I usually relax and do homework or read in my room because I can get some alone time just for myself. I am nervous that I am not going to be able to get that alone time next year in college. I think that sharing a room has to be difficult even if you do get along with the person you are sharing it with. I hope that whoever my roommate is likes her alone and quiet time too and I hope that she likes bright colors and a lot of decorations like me. I did an overnight visit at William Paterson University and the two girls I stayed with had the cutest dorm room. They had pictures and decorations all over the place, they even had it decorated for Christmas. I hope that my roommate next year is into all of that stuff because I think that a room is a place where you can express yourself and I want to be able to express myself with colors and pictures in my dorm room.
A room has a great effect on me, but I do not know why. I am very excited to decorate my dorm room when I go off to college. I can't wait to set up my closet and desk and hang up all the pictures of my friends. I think a dorm room is a lot of the experience of college. Bring an only child sharing a dorm room with someone next year is going to be a very different experience for me, but I am excited about it. I hope I get a nice roommate who is like me and one that I can get along with.
Whenever I am home I usually relax and do homework or read in my room because I can get some alone time just for myself. I am nervous that I am not going to be able to get that alone time next year in college. I think that sharing a room has to be difficult even if you do get along with the person you are sharing it with. I hope that whoever my roommate is likes her alone and quiet time too and I hope that she likes bright colors and a lot of decorations like me. I did an overnight visit at William Paterson University and the two girls I stayed with had the cutest dorm room. They had pictures and decorations all over the place, they even had it decorated for Christmas. I hope that my roommate next year is into all of that stuff because I think that a room is a place where you can express yourself and I want to be able to express myself with colors and pictures in my dorm room.
Love
Love is such a complicated thing that it cannot be defined by a simple equation. If love was as simple as an equation the divorce rate would not be as high as it is today. If there was an equation that was kindness and good personality that equaled loved, there could be many people in the world that would fit that. If there are hundreds of people in the world that could fit the definition of "love" how could someone find their one true love. Many people do not believe in soul mates, but I do. I think there is one true love somewhere in the world for everyone and you just have to find them.
Love is the people in the world that you care about. Whether it be your family, friends, husband, or wife the are many people that you can love. Love is a funny feeling because there are different kinds of it. I think that there is a difference between loving someone and being in love with someone. I love my friends and family, but there is a difference between loving someone and being in love with someone to the point where you want to marry them. There are many feelings and emotions that come with love. Love can be a great thing or a terrible thing. I care so much about the people that I love, so when they are hurt or upset it makes me feel bad too, but on the other hand I love seeing them happy and being successful.
There is not necessarily a specific place that you go to look for love it can happen anywhere. It can happen at the food store, at school, at a party, or at work. If two people are soul mates they are bound to find each other eventually no matter where they run into each other. Also someone does not have to be looking for love to find it. Sometimes it is easier to find love when you are not looking for it. When people go out and look for someone it is almost like they are trying to hard to find it that they can't. Depending on the situation love can be extremely difficult or the easiest thing in the world. I think once you find the right person it is east, bur finding that person is the hard part.
Everyone deserves to have love so I do not think that you have to be qualified to get it. Everyone has a the right to love and everyone has someone in the world for them to love and to love them back. I do not think that there is anyone that doesn't have it. Even the meanest and nastiest people of the world have a good side to them somewhere. They can find someone who is also mean and nasty and they can love each other. I do think that there is people who want to get rid of love because they have too much of it. If someone loves another person, but that person does not love them back it can be extremely painful. If someone is put into that kind of situation it seems terrible enough to make them want to stop loving altogether.
Love is a wonderful emotion when you find the right person to love. It can make everything in the world seem joyful and exciting, but at the same time a person who loves but is not loved back can been in the darkest place. Love is a strong emotion and it can be either negative or positive. I hope that one day I can find my one true love and I can be one of the lucky people to live happily ever after with their one true love.
Love is the people in the world that you care about. Whether it be your family, friends, husband, or wife the are many people that you can love. Love is a funny feeling because there are different kinds of it. I think that there is a difference between loving someone and being in love with someone. I love my friends and family, but there is a difference between loving someone and being in love with someone to the point where you want to marry them. There are many feelings and emotions that come with love. Love can be a great thing or a terrible thing. I care so much about the people that I love, so when they are hurt or upset it makes me feel bad too, but on the other hand I love seeing them happy and being successful.
There is not necessarily a specific place that you go to look for love it can happen anywhere. It can happen at the food store, at school, at a party, or at work. If two people are soul mates they are bound to find each other eventually no matter where they run into each other. Also someone does not have to be looking for love to find it. Sometimes it is easier to find love when you are not looking for it. When people go out and look for someone it is almost like they are trying to hard to find it that they can't. Depending on the situation love can be extremely difficult or the easiest thing in the world. I think once you find the right person it is east, bur finding that person is the hard part.
Everyone deserves to have love so I do not think that you have to be qualified to get it. Everyone has a the right to love and everyone has someone in the world for them to love and to love them back. I do not think that there is anyone that doesn't have it. Even the meanest and nastiest people of the world have a good side to them somewhere. They can find someone who is also mean and nasty and they can love each other. I do think that there is people who want to get rid of love because they have too much of it. If someone loves another person, but that person does not love them back it can be extremely painful. If someone is put into that kind of situation it seems terrible enough to make them want to stop loving altogether.
Love is a wonderful emotion when you find the right person to love. It can make everything in the world seem joyful and exciting, but at the same time a person who loves but is not loved back can been in the darkest place. Love is a strong emotion and it can be either negative or positive. I hope that one day I can find my one true love and I can be one of the lucky people to live happily ever after with their one true love.
Sunday, February 5, 2012
Risks
I am definitely not the type to take a lot of risks. I like to think that I live my life to the fullest, but I do not do stupid things. For example, in my opinion drinking and driving would be a stupid and life threatening thing to do, so I stick to drinking water. Other people may say that I am missing out, but I just do not see the fun in getting so drunk that I have no idea what I am doing and vomiting all over myself. I definitely take more social and personal risks than risks that involve crazy life threatening things.
Social risks are something I can relate to more. I have not taken a lot of social risks, but I have definitely taken some. Growing up in Island Heights was good in elementary school, but coming to Central for middle school was really difficult. I knew one person coming into middle school and she was not exactly the type of person who you wanted to hang out with all of the time. I was very shy back then and it was hard for me to make friends. I was always nervous about what people would think of me and how they would react when I tried to talk to them. For the first few months of school I did not really talk to anyone, but as time went on I started making friends. It took some time, but now I have a lot of friends and many that I know will stay close throughout college and for the rest of our lives. Another social risk I took when I was younger was I used to play on an all boy hockey and baseball team. Not many girls would do that and be the only girl on the team, but I had no problem playing with all the boys and it was some of the most fun memories I have from my childhood.
In addition to social risks I can relate to personal risks too. I was never really comfortable talking to my parents, or anyone else in my family, when I was younger. I was always afraid of my parents and I never wanted to disappoint them or make them angry. I have always loved them, but I never wanted them to know what was going on in my life because I was afraid they wouldn't be proud of me. Although I still worry about my parents being disappointed in my actions I talk to them about my life a lot more now. In fact just this morning my mom and I had a deep conversation about my boyfriend and I, a conversation that I would have never been able to have three years ago.
I know that it doesn't seem like these things are actually risks, but I do not normally take risks. The biggest risk I can think of is when I was younger I used to love skateboarding. I used to go to the skate park and ride up and down the ramps for hours. Looking back at that I do not know how I wasn't terrified of the huge ramps, but I used to love it. There are risks that can be taken that do not threaten your life and a person can definitely enjoy their life without doing insane and dangerous things like drinking and driving.
Social risks are something I can relate to more. I have not taken a lot of social risks, but I have definitely taken some. Growing up in Island Heights was good in elementary school, but coming to Central for middle school was really difficult. I knew one person coming into middle school and she was not exactly the type of person who you wanted to hang out with all of the time. I was very shy back then and it was hard for me to make friends. I was always nervous about what people would think of me and how they would react when I tried to talk to them. For the first few months of school I did not really talk to anyone, but as time went on I started making friends. It took some time, but now I have a lot of friends and many that I know will stay close throughout college and for the rest of our lives. Another social risk I took when I was younger was I used to play on an all boy hockey and baseball team. Not many girls would do that and be the only girl on the team, but I had no problem playing with all the boys and it was some of the most fun memories I have from my childhood.
In addition to social risks I can relate to personal risks too. I was never really comfortable talking to my parents, or anyone else in my family, when I was younger. I was always afraid of my parents and I never wanted to disappoint them or make them angry. I have always loved them, but I never wanted them to know what was going on in my life because I was afraid they wouldn't be proud of me. Although I still worry about my parents being disappointed in my actions I talk to them about my life a lot more now. In fact just this morning my mom and I had a deep conversation about my boyfriend and I, a conversation that I would have never been able to have three years ago.
I know that it doesn't seem like these things are actually risks, but I do not normally take risks. The biggest risk I can think of is when I was younger I used to love skateboarding. I used to go to the skate park and ride up and down the ramps for hours. Looking back at that I do not know how I wasn't terrified of the huge ramps, but I used to love it. There are risks that can be taken that do not threaten your life and a person can definitely enjoy their life without doing insane and dangerous things like drinking and driving.
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