My Best Friend

During the random snow day I decided to clean out my room. Well, I was going through my boxes under my bed and found my stuffed animal elephant that I named 'elphy'. He was a very special elephant and was my best friend. I never went anywhere without him. I remember one time I split juice on him and tried to give him a bath but his fur wasn't water proof so it made him all winkled. This elephant was a great listener and never made fun of me or yelled back, he just sat and listened. He was my best friend. It's funny how you will find old things and they just take you back to all the memories.

One Small Prayer

When I was a kid I lived in a house with my parents and brothers and sister. You wouldn't really consider us a BIG happy family because we weren't. Our house was filled with constant fighting and hate. My parents worked all the time and when they weren't they were either passed out from drinking or out dealing. Yeah, people might say they worked hard to support us but they spent it on themselves. We began to steal from the grocery store for food and were times I wore the same clothes without them being washed. Kids started making fun of me and I had no friends besides my two brothers. There was no way anyone could have seperated the three of us. Well as this continued you could always find me in my closet crying and praying that one day God would send an angel to rescue me. It was about two years until my prayer was answered by a phone call. On the phone was the voice of my memaw inviting us to go to church. We surprisngly we were allowed to go because before my parents weren't letting us talk to any of our family. So we headed off to church and little did I know that, that would be the last time I would be at that house and seeing my parents. After that night I have lived with my grandparents and my parents flew off to Florida running from the law. It's crazy how a little prayer can change everything you just go to have faith.

My Missing Piece

For me I have always felt like there was a missing piece in my life. I kept searching for it but never seemed like it would make itself known to me. Most of my life as a kid I always thought that good things weren't meant for me and that's just how things were going to be for me. I feel like that this has definatly changed because of one special someone. I do believe in my heart that he is my missing piece in my life. I have always just wanted to be accepted for who I was and for someone to love me more than anything. He has given me hope for a better life than I had in the past. He only cares for my needs and what is best for me. I know some adults might say that I am too young to think about the future but they just don't understand the love we have for each other. I don't know, it's crazy how deep I have fallen for him and can't ever see myself letting him go. After watching the video I have felt just like the little guy searching for his missing piece but for me I have truly found it and that search is over.

"And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betrays, in deepest consquence."

I think that we get too comfortable with doing little things that are wrong because we get away with them. When the darkness comes over us its hard to escape those temptations. I think once you continue to do something you will most likely not stop doing them. We look at the bad things as being good because it makes its self look like that. We tend to get pulled in with the evil desires of the world because it seems good to us. I always think of what is always said, "well everyone else is doing it so it must not be too bad."

"Evil Spirits such as witches appear when summoned, whether by our conscious or unconscious mind" (The Necessary Shakespeare 711)

I think when bad things happen to me I feel like they come from my past. My attitude towards my past is negative and I tend to dwell on it. When things occur in my life I blame them on things that have already happened to me. I don't want to say that I bring it upon myself but it could be true. If I think about why things happen to me it's mainly because my attitude. I always thought that I was someone that always got the worst of things. But that has changed recently because my outlook on life has changed. I met an amazing person that allows me to be happy and to see who I really am as a person. He only encourages me not to dwell on the past and try to forgive and forget. I think with allowing myself to look more positively towards things, it has let good things happen for me. My whole thought about this is that it is really up to their attitude and their perspective on life.

My whole life I have experienced a lot of change. Change that I didn't like and change that made a difference in my life. I am someone that struggles with change and how it affects me. This year there have been large changes happening in my life and things that will affect my future. I am struggling with accepting it and being strong through it. I think that when change occurs in your life you are faced with many challenges and there is a ton to think about. I have recently been faced with a decision of a relationship that will have separation. I think that I am just so comfortable with where I am now and don't seem like it's fair. I know that with being a Senior, things begin to become more and more important for your future. As of now my future is in my hands and how I will continue my life in college. I think I just seek for guidance and help through these times, but I try to put it as; it will all work out for the best if I have faith.

Take ONE!

Acting in class was a lot of fun and so funny. I loved that we dressed up like whatever we wanted to and just got to have fun with the acts we had. I think that Jake's group was the best at acting out the story. They had to do it twice but it was still really funny. I loved how they had a fight agaisnt a cell phone and they were great actors. I think that when we have classes like that it gets my attention to pay more attention to the lesson we are going to learn about. I hope that we will have more exciting activities to go with all of our lessons. This is truly my favorite class!!