I Was Seeing Red

Life normally doesn’t go the way you plan when you’re young. When I was little, I figured that when I was at the age of graduation I would be totally prepared to go off my own. As I sit and think about the topic of how my life is going, several thoughts pour into my mind. First, I think of how lucky I am. The past two years could’ve changed my life because of bad health. Through weeks and months of hospitals stays and hours spent in the doctor’s office and in the emergency room, I’ve come out lucky and I have almost returned to good health. Second, I think of those friends who I thought would be there for my whole life that are no longer a part of my life. I also look to the people who I never thought would be there by my side and realize

As I sit in my dorm room looking at my flowers I think to myself how lucky I am. The flowers remind myself of a handsome man at Truman seating in his favorite spot on a cold dark night doing what he loves and makes him childlike. I see him joking with his roommates about the walking dead and having the random grilled cheese walking in and out as he talks to the one he loves. I picture him thinking about what kind of ring to get or how to ask. To ask that most important question he must ask another human in his life time, will you marry me? How is it that the guy has so much pressure to do it just right for the future wife, he can’t make it with too many people, he can’t have it too public, but needs to be perfect and a complete surprise. How does that one guy have the weight of the women on his shoulders.

Marriage is a very emotional life event. Marriage is based on love and affection and about two people living their lives together. Marriage creates an emotionally fulfilling and intimate relationship and enhances the relationship that is already there. Marriage allowed Cheryl’s self esteem to be enhanced as she became a whole new person, living a more mature way of life. The relationship started off very strong and their intimacy seemed to on a high. On the day of Cheryl’s wedding she will have experienced several different emotions including happiness, nervousness and excitement. During marriage if the relationship remains strong there emotions tend to stay in tact but on a smaller but meaningful scale. A healthy marriage tends to enable emotions to be happy, although an

I had no hopes or dreams growing up. I never thought too much about the future as a child. I lived from day to day just waiting for one to finish and another to begin. I grew up in this fashion and did not change at all until middle school. By middle school, I was aware that life did not revolve around school and that there were expectations for me to meet. Both parents and teachers expected me to rise above and beyond. Now my reason for waking up every day and working hard was to meet these expectations. I worked hard to keep up with the expectations, though eventually, the young child that I was could no longer handle the stress of all the work and slipped into melancholy. It was an endless cycle of work, failure, and shame. This continued until I graduated and went off to high school.

A lot of things have turned out differently for me than I had ever expected. I never thought that I would ever move from Illinois to Tennessee. When I was little I didn’t even expect from where I was then, to where I am now today. I won’t be talking about those events that happened, but I will be talking one that happened recently. It is about the time where my group and I thought our cheer stunt was going to hit. Nobody knew it was going to break down.

In my life I experienced many things and the most important thing that I learn is that life is like a box of chocolate . I say that life is like a box of chocolate like Forrest Gump said because, you never know what’s planned for you next. You don’t know if you're going to get a good outcome, or a bad outcome because it’s different flavors in chocolate. My freshman year of highschool I was lacking not doing my work and just slacking but, now I regret it because freshman year is the most important year of your high school years . In these 17 years of my life, it been has been like a box of chocolate I never knew what was going to be the outcome of me making the the decision I made my freshman year. If I would’ve did better my freshman year it wouldn’t be so hard how it was my 10th grade year.

Marriage has been a heated controversy for the past few years because people often marry for the wrong reasons. Anyone who thinks of an ideal marriage would think of two people loving each other and sharing a personal bond or goals together. Marriage is regularly defined as the legally or formally recognized union of two lovers as partners in a personal relationship. This definition remarks there is an actual connection between two people in marriage, but do people actually consider this when committing to “love” and “support” their partners forever? As research and studies have shown, people ultimately get married for many reasons, except love. This philosophy can be easily applied to the short poem, “Marriage” by Gregory Corso. In this emotional poem, the author argues marriage is more effectively understood or known for culture and convenience rather than through the abstract considerations of love. Here, we can identify people generally decide to marry for the incorrect reasons, for instance the story of the author himself. Corso finds himself confused multiple times, wondering if he should marry to not be lonely, for tradition and for his physical and mental health. He disregards love, a relationship or a connection with his future wife. General ways of convenience like loneliness, health and economic status between cultural stereotypes and religion are usually the true reasons of why people chose to have the commitment of marriage with another person.

I couldn’t put this off forever. I knew that. What was I going to do, introduce my mum to my girlfriend on our wedding day? Though the prospect was amusing, I knew I wouldn’t be able to wait that long. I knew that it was time for me to be an outcast.

The book Seeing Red by Kathryn Erskine is set in Stony Gap, Virginia in 1972. In this book a 12 year old boy named Red Porter’s life is turned upside down by the death of his father. Due to his father’s death, his mother has no choice but to sell the old family business, and move to Ohio to live with family. But Red is determined to stay in Stony Gap, he tries to find ways to stop his mother from selling their property. Red ends up in a world of trouble by joining a local gang, in which he is forced to make a choice that could sever his relationship with his friend Thomas, a boy a year older than him that stays in Stony Gap every summer.

I look back sometimes, at that fateful morning. I wish I could warn myself what was coming, and how I’d never in my wildest dreams see what was coming next. How my life could never, would never be the

about my future, I didn't see myself growing up in a family where I won't have

In the late 1800’s through early 1900’s women and men were did not “tie the knot” like the women and men do in today’s day. In today’s world, women and men get married because they have many things in common, they are in love with each other, and they choose to get married to one another. In many stories written back then, readers can expect to read about how marriages were arranged and how many people were not having the wedded bliss marriage proclaims today.

    In the opening sequence of the film, the viewer is immediately presented with an image of marriage as entirely contractual: "Today he married me to a man I've not yet met." The protagonist, although she has already been established as strong-willed and non-conforming, is accepting but not altogether optimistic about the arrangement. The viewer also learns that she

At the age of twenty, my life was full of constant turmoil and instability. I had a plan, and children were not a part of it. I never imagined that I would ever have children.

Life sometimes seems scary. The fear of failure and the fear of the unknown make a person rethink its choices and goals, this happens all the time. As time passes, be days, moths, years or only simply one experience can change our whole vision of the world, about life, about what really matters and consequently about our goals. Throughout my whole life I have questioned so many aspects of my life, of existence, and consequently about my future. I never stopped wanting to achieve something big, that could change the whole world, some amazing adventure that would be the one thing that would give birth to all the amazing things that could happen next. As time passed I realized that life itself is one big adventure, and that what I will do every day will matter for me and for the people around me. I realized that life is not some perfect movie where there are good guys, bad guys and that in the end of one amazing journey everything would be solved. It may be a childish vision of the world, but it had motivated me for years to do the thing I believed would help me achieve this, and to believe in myself. Obviously as I grew up, I saw what the world really looked like, that sacrifices have to be made, that there are things which no one can control, that if I want something I have to work really hard. In today society everything counts.