Glass Half Research Paper

It was a normal spring night and my baseball game had just started. It was senior night and I was pitching, we had just finish the first half of the first inning. My teammate struck out, it was my turn to hit, I swung for the ball and my leg popped twice. I went down and didn't get back up, My leg was stuck to my chest and I couldn't move it. The visiting team's coach was an EMT he ran over and said ¨this is going to hurt¨ and pulled my leg straight. What had happened was when I swung the bat my leg didn't move and my kneecap dislocated and instead of my ligaments tearing, they stretched and broke my kneecap. This was a challenge for me because this was the first time I had never broken a bone in my life. I went to the doctor and he said nothing was wrong, so my

In the words of Winston Churchill, "The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." When we are optimistic that we can get a job done, or that we can find a cure for a disease, we are more motivated, and we work harder. A scientist who is pessimistic that they will never find a cure for a specific disease will have a mental mind block against finding a cure for a disease, making it considerably harder for them to find a cure. However, a scientist who is optimistic about finding a cure for a disease will be motivated and more focused on their dedication to discovering a cure for a disease such as cancer. When you are optimistic, you are more motivated, and when you are motivated, you are more productive, consequently making optimism a particularly important priority in everyday

I had a compound fracture located in the middle of my right humerus. The doctors were intrigued by how I broke my arm the way I did. Apparently, I had a stress fracture down my humerus for at least the past three months, all in which I was playing softball, making it weaker and weaker. Many people thought I would be done playing softball, maybe I would be too scared to throw a ball again, or my torn labrum would yet get in the way. My doctor told me that it would be a whole year before I would recover and be able to play softball again, and that devastated me. I would have to miss a whole season of softball, and the try-outs for the next year, but I have came too far in my dream to stop

Being a typical 9 year old, I bawled my eyes out. When I moved my arm, it hurt even more. My mom came over to see what all the commotion was all about and I told her what had gone on. I also told her that whenever I moved my arm, it hurt and it felt very weird. She told me we would have to head to the hospital in Columbus to go get an X-Ray to see if it was broken. Thankfully, this was after my older brother’s band’s performance. He came over to us, and my mom told what was about to happen and what we were about to do. He wasn’t happy, to say the least. After about 5 minutes of arguing, my brother lost and my mom took the rest of us to Columbus. As we got into the car, she told me to keep my arm as still as I could, to which I did. We didn’t go to the hospital right away, however, we went to McDonald’s instead to try and make me feel better with some ice cream. It worked, and made me feel glad, even until I got into the hospital. I had never had a broken bone before up until that point in my life, so I didn’t know what to expect. We sat in the waiting room for about 5-10 minutes, until the nurse came into the room to tell us that the doctor was waiting. We got into

I’ve have been through hardships and hard times, especially with sports. One of many injuries was when I was playing basketball during open gym. As I went up for a contested lay-up, I twisted my leg. Not knowing it was still planted, I chipped the tibia in my knee. Though it hurt, I was still was able to walk it off. My father and I went to the

My freshman year of high school I broke the Scaphoid and growth plate in my right wrist while playing in a basketball game. I didn’t know that it was broken for two weeks and I played in three of four basketball games with my broken dominant hand. I found that is was probably broken the Monday before Christmas. On Christmas Eve I was told that I would be put in a cast for the entire Christmas break and on January 3rd we would find out if it was really broke. Sure enough we came back and told that I would have to be in a cast for six to eight weeks. I was pretty devastated and upset that I would be out for the rest of the season, it had barely begun. I was staying pretty optimistic about it because it would give me a chance to work on my weak hand, it was my left, and make it stronger. I still went to practice and worked as hard as I could hoping that the coach’s

Lang, explains through a series of scientific studies that pessimism can sometimes be a better form of seeing life than optimism. Throughout the article studies are being done on different age groups, the youngest group always shows a “sunny” outlook on life while the middle aged group is logical and realistic. Optimism has shown health complications and mental issues in older people (Lang, 2013). I usually do not think negatively about life, but as an improvement I should start seeing life for what it truly is, unpredictable and inconvenient in order to prevent a distasteful lifestyle in the

My Physical Therapist told me, “ If you work hard and do all your exercises at home then you will be back to baseball in 10 months, but you will probably not be able to make it back to play your senior year of baseball.” With that being said, it basically took all the motivation I had built up out of me to do well in therapy. Why work hard in something if you know that it’s not going to get you where you want to be? Questions like that lived inside of my head for days, the thoughts of not being able to play my senior year suffocated me at night. Leaving me wide awake until my eyes could not bare to stay open. Why me? What did I possibly do to deserve such a harsh injury and set back? I was trapped inside of my own head. For weeks I went through the motions not only at physical therapy, but also with my life. Before getting injured I thought I had everything figured out. Then it seemed like life just slapped me in the face and laughed. My only motivation for doing well in school was Baseball. Since I had that taken away from me I had no reason to want to do well in anything. I was falling behind in my classes, but most importantly I was falling apart as an individual. These types of behaviors and actions went on for three to four

In my freshman year of high school I made the freshman baseball team, a couple weeks into the season I received news that I was being promoted to the JV team. I was so excited I was gonna be able to play at the next level. That night I played in my last game on the freshman team and I broke my thumb after a bad hop. I was devastated when the doctor gave me the news that I’d be out for the season and in a cast for the next month. Soon after my coaches heard the news, I was sent back to the freshman team. After playing out all the hypothetical ways approaching the next few months could have gone for me I decided right then I was going to go to every practice and game to help my team even though I physically wasn't able to. At the team banquet

I started playing softball at the age of 5, as I grew up I continued playing, eventually getting to the highest competition for my age. I worked extremely hard. Softball was my whole life, my world revolved around it. I was a pitcher; I played for multiple different teams. I had a team Canada pitching coach, did personal training, every day I practiced or played ball. I didn’t have breaks and I didn’t want breaks. I worked hard to get where I got. At the age of 15, grade 10, I had developed nerve damage, I was in a walking boot or a cast for almost a year, nothing got better, we did cortisone injections into my foot hoping that would help, I got the injections then was put in a cast, I was scheduled for surgery but before the operation when

Ms. Claus wanted to have a party and she needed a gallon of hot chocolate, but when she got to the hot chocolate store there WAS NO GALLONS the elf who worked there said ''4 quarts equal to 1 gallon, 2 pints is equal to a quart, 2 cups is equal to a pint, and 8 oz. is equal to a cup.'' Ms. Claus thought she couldn't remember so she made a song about it. When she finally found the hot chocolate in quarts there were only 2 QUARTS then she remembered that 4 pints were enough to make another 2 quarts. (Today must be her unlucky day) when she found the hot chocolate in pint size there were only 2 PINTS. 4 cups would be enough to make up for her other 2 pints. When she found the cups of hot chocolate there was finally 2 cups. She was lucky she

I have a theory that being an optimist causes you to smile more and frown less. Frowning causes forehead wrinkles and smiling causes smile lines. I guess I prefer smile lines over forehead wrinkles any day of the week. As a self-proclaimed optimist, I have my own definition of what an optimist is. To me, an optimist is about being positive, happy go lucky, just have a real sense that everything will turn out to be all right. In my life what makes me an optimist is knowing that I am fortunate for what I have, realizing my mistakes are life lessons, and sending myself positivity.

We smile, we laugh, we hurt, we cry, we take what we can out of life and we run with it. Those who hide from the opportunities in front of them miss out on a lifetime of adventures. For as long as I can remember I’ve been a pessimist. Admittedly, I’ve ruined a lot of my family and friends’ fun by being negative and pessimistic about the activities they’ve wanted to do. I’ve tried so hard to become that happy-go-lucky adventurous young lady and somewhere along the way I convinced myself that I was that person. My mother always told me that no one likes a negative nancy or a killjoy; then again she’s an extremely optimistic person so we don’t always get along. There are many times an opportunity came into

Being optimistic is the main principle for most people. We may often hear the statement about “be an optimist, not a pessimist!” shouted by people. Sometimes you do it for yourself too. When facing such a failure or problem, this will not only help to relieve your heart. Being optimistic will help someone to be healthy in physical and mental. An optimist will find the best way in any circumstance and hope for every good thing can come to him/her. You may have gone through thousands of hard times. However, if you are a born optimist then you will not care of anything destructing you.

Optimistic and pessimistic attitudes constantly affect the outcome of people's lives. In my life, I try to keep an optimistic attitude about the things I do because I know it will help lead me to more desirable ends. There have been many situations in which optimism has helped me through difficult times. Two areas in particular have provided me optimistic experiences: athletics