Life Essay: Irony Of Life

These are the words that have ended all of my counseling sheets with since I began writing them as a Corporal and will continue to do as long as I counsel Marines.

“He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.” - Confucius

“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.” - Thomas Jefferson.

Human beings make mistakes; sometimes they learn from their first mistake, sometimes they learn after

lessons are learned from making mistakes and if you never make mistakes there's nothing to learn from it. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire wrote, “Error is a hardy plant; it flourishes in every soil.” this means that everyone can make mistakes its always there and you can not get rid of

After the hellos and how you are small talk, my sister ventured out on her rhetoric. Supply and demand regulate nothing but the temporary fluctuations of market prices. That there’s no justice in this world. Few have them all and the rest of the world in poverty, she sighed in between each theory. Life today is a great sea of bustle and activity with everyone on the move. That if we don’t follow the trends, we’re out of it. Shifting to her friend who has got engaged to a pilot and they’re getting married in the summer. Then she dropped her voice and said that the said friend is also three months pregnant. I love my sister, to be honest and she’s so funny sometimes. I roar with laughter at some of the things she said. I don’t know where she’s

-” Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”

God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be… Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement – Marcus Garvey (1887-1940).

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow" Ralph Waldo Emerson. From my perspective, the meaning behind these words is what drives humanity towards improvement. As a junior in high school, I see no better time than now to live by these words. As college slowly rises upon the horizon, I envision a bright future at Greeneville tech.

Life is Fine : Situational Irony ,Repetition Life is Fine ,by Langston Huges ,is a ballot with a abcb rhyme scheme .In the poem , Huges uses situational irony in his poem to express how he feel ,but want the reader to think otherwise .The message of the poem is no matter how your feeling ,think twice before you do something. Huges uses situational irony to make the reader use his/her brain .Situational irony is where the situation turns out to be the opposite of what we expect .I expected that "Life is Fine" really meant life is fine . He also used repetition in his poem.

"Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever" (Aristophanes). This is a fairly sarcastic quote in my opinion. It appears that Aristophanes is being rather harsh in his tone. Many people think that stupid is unfixable, and those people would be partially right. There are two different kinds of stupid; however, one can be remedied and the other cannot. Many of our shortcomings are associated with age, but some are given that stigma incorrectly. This quote leads us to know exactly which characteristics can and will fade and which ones will last forever.

This comment encourages anyone who wants to be the best in their life to read or follow the owner of this quote.

A smart man learns from his mistakes. A wise one learns from the mistakes of others.

"I believed that my greatest effort should be directed to seek in a beautiful simplicity ...and there is no accepted rule that I have not thought should be gladly sacrificed in favour of effectiveness."

Ralph Waldo Emerson once stated,”To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment”. This quote means if you will be yourself when others try to change you, that’s the biggest accomplishment ever.