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Feelings of disgust fill me when I observe the identity of an
individual being crushed by the widespread need to fit in with society and
be like everyone else. Differences in character, appearance and emotion
are created by unique pasts, and form the foundation for personal beliefs.
When these differences are erased by society's attempt to create anologous
creatures, individualism --a value that I hold in high esteem-- is lost.
I aquired these values from my personal intuition and from taking the
advise of personal mentors as authorty.
Throughout my life, I have been blessed with a combinaion of two
traits; I am observant and skeptical. Watching other people's lives and
hearing other people's opinions has given me the impression that the human
spirit has been confined to the impersonation of other people's wisdom and
virtue. I believe in the saying that imitation is the sheerest form of
flattery, but I also believe that it henders the evolution ...
Approximately fifty years ago, I met five boys at kindergarten in the city of Nashville. What makes this fact somewhat unusual is that the other night, I met them again for dinner. Somehow, through all these years, the six of us have survived the mine field of holding on to friends and we are still together. "The boys", as we call ourselves, began...
is of the essence! Be on ! to go to school! We are running out of ! You may not realize it, but our lives are controlled by . From the we get up to the we go to bed we are its slaves. Being a teenager, time definetly controls me, it has to. I have to be up at a certain time, so I wont be late to school. During the school day I have to b...
I was about to leave my algebra class one day when the teacher asked me a question. "Could you do help me out with my rollbook program?" he asked. "Sure, how can I help?" I replied. "I'm not sure about how to save back-up copies of my work. Could you show me how?" he said. At this moment, I realized the scope of his question. I would be able to...
Once there were two people named Marsha and Leroy. They were madly in love with each other and their personalities were exactly alike. Marsha and Leroy were absolutely perfect for each other except for two characteristics about each of them. Marsha had a rather wealthy family and their neighborhood was on the East Side of Atlanta. Leroy had no m...
I sat in the woods in my backyard to get away from my busy life, and sit and observe things that happen, that I'm to busy to see. Those things are things that you have to take time and sit out of your busy life to notice. Those things are all around us but we just don't know they are happening because we're going to fast to see. I took twenty mi...
