My Daily Life

For the majority of my life, I had been shy, even though it didn’t seem like it most of the time, I was scared to death when I met new people. I know that it sounds extremely trivial, but I feel that when you first meet someone, you’re ultimately giving them their first impression of yourself and that is a lot of pressure. It seemed almost certain that I would lead a life of being a social wallflower until March 2017, more specifically, March 28th, 2017. This day was and still is important to me because I learned how to be confident, and through my experience, it taught me something that I will hold onto forever. Prior to this day, I was an extremely introverted person and rarely went out of my way to make friends. As a volunteer at day

People should live for today, not yesterday or tomorrow. According to Buddhist wisdoms, “We will try not to lose ourselves in dispersion or be carried away by regrets about the past, worries about the future, or cravings, anger, or jealousy in the present” (Fourteen Mindfulness, 7th training). With this awareness in mind, it will allow people to refresh their feeling about the challenge they had in the past. Additionally, it will be able to help people to live happily and peacefully.

In our life we make decisions that could either benefit us or be harmful to our life. We have to make the decision that is best for us, and our well-being. Throughout this semester I have gained a better understanding of many concepts. There are many that relate to my everyday life and have positive and negative effects on me. The three concepts I chose that are listed below are what I have the most understanding on and what relates to my life the most.

It is an obvious observation that most people always have their phone with them including in their place of work. “Employees estimate that they spend about 4 hours a day (half a work day) managing multiple inboxes.” (Ott). The main issue with this is that there are so many interruptions through out the work day. If you are working on something and are continuously getting side tracked on social media or answering emails, you will take longer than you should on your main task at hand, and you are leaving a lot of open possibilities for mistakes. As Ott states “Peers and Power are triggers that can cause addictive behaviors that we see on social media platforms.”.

What exactly causes people to always be checking their phones, especially if they are already performing another task? So, I decided to conduct a little study of my own. Although not scientific, a friend and I did a study, which answered my final question. For three days my friend and I shut off all of our notifications from our apps on our phones. I was quite interested in what would happen, and the results I found were quite interesting. After shutting off our notifications we realized we weren’t checking our phones as much, which made me come to the conclusion that not only are our smartphones the problem, but the apps we have as well. I believe that a big problem is with all the apps people download, comes endless amounts of notifications, which causes people to check their phones constantly. After clicking on the notification, it leads people to start browsing social media or doing other activities on their phones. According to Jeff Stibel, a cognitive scientist and entrepreneur, “Dopamine is a brain chemical that literally makes us happy, and it is released every time we receive something on our phones”. Every time someone hears a buzz or sees a notification dopamine hits them right away, and it clearly explains why people are constantly checking their phones. People find pleasure when someone comments on their post, or if they get a text message.

That of not being able to go even a short time without controlling what happens on your display, who posts on your wall, who responded to one of your tweets, or even viewing who ‘favorited’ one of your photos on Instagram. This occurs so often that, “1 in 5 utilize their smartphone to check messages, social media, or email every 10 minutes,” (Cisco, 2012). Almost as if it were a drug, it leaches from our daily lives. This constant preoccupation is becoming distracting, and potentially life threatening.

When I was younger, I went down to his Florida office and learned what he did.

So many wonderful things have happened in my life and I am thankful every day for it. My family is very supportive and are always there for me whenever I need them. They support me about my decision on what to go to college for and they are always pushing me to try harder and put myself out there. They have made the first eighteen years of my life great and I don’t know how I will ever repay them.

The most challenging part of my life was when I was 15 years old going on 16. Those two years were very rough for me because those are the years my grandmother was getting to the point she needed me and my mom by her side all the time. When she started getting sick that’s when it all began. Everything started revolving around her, my free time started to lessen, and my family started to crash and burn.

I wake up in the morning at 4.30 a.m, but when holiday I wake up at 05.00 a.m. Then I pray subuh. I actually want to jogging but I have’nt friend cause sometime my friend wake up late or they said “I think I have thin body” ough.. it so bad. Although I dislike sport but I think sport is needed to our body for balanced and I want to around simpang lima or Masjid Agung. But it’s not happens for this time.

Every choice we make in our daily lives can positively or negatively affect who we are and what we do. What if one day you decide to go help out at a local charity event? Maybe the next day something good will happen to you. On the other hand, say you have one of those moment that almost every young child has and you tell your mother or father you hate them or wish you did not have to see them anymore. What if that really came true? How would you feel? Now I cannot speak for you but I know from personal experience that that feeling is the the worst feeling you could imagine.

It was a fine day in Bentonville, Arkansas. I was thinking about all the fun that I would be having this summer with my two best friends, Percy Ross and Warren Drews. It was three o’clock and it was finally summer. This was a great year since I had no major injuries unlike last year when I broke my arm. The following six months were the worst months of my life. To make it even worse, it was during summer. I was injury free for an entire year, until the break occurred.

Growing up as a child, I was raised by my aunt. Her name was Sally. My aunt and I never really got along. I didn’t know my real parents. I actually doubt that she was my real aunt. At the age of thirteen years old I found out the truth about my parents. She told me that they died in a car accident when I was only 4 months old. That was the only truth I knew about my parents. I was left with pictures of them and memories, which it wasn’t many memories I could remember because I was only 4 months old. It was hard growing up seeing kids with their mommies and daddies. I used to wonder why my life was different and why I was with my aunt.

I am currently living in San Antonio,Texas, but I was born in Wichita, Kansas. The city Wichita is a much smaller than San Antonio, so life was extremely different than here. The city was calm and quiet, not much really happened so I was allowed to venture out and explore.My elementary school was only walking distance from my home,meaning I could travel to and from school without any problems. While I walked home, my mom would always have something ready to eat the moment we walked in the door. My mother has always been a affectionate woman. She has a friendly heart, but will raise her voice if she needs to. She and my father would always teach us right from wrong and showed us that when someone was mean, kill them with kindness. My father is a hard working man and tries his best to get along with everyone. He exceeds at his work to make sure that we are better off than he was as a child. No matter how exhausted he is after a day's work, he always takes the time to talk to us and make sure we are doing good. He pushes us to always try our best and is always providing support. He always tells me that I am intelligent, but for my sister, he supports her in a different way; she is not as skilled and keeping information. So my parents help her study. My sister is five years younger than me,so we don't always get along. She is loud and annoying, but can also be caring when she has to be.When she was in elementary school, she always came home saying how much she loved it. It

My life has not always been easy, but without it I would not be who I am today. I spent my early childhood in Apache Junction Arizona which is just twenty miles outside the city of Mesa. I lived with both parents, three sisters, and one brother. My parents fought a lot about my mother’s drinking and how it caused so much trouble for us all. My mother fought the most with my dad’s daughter Sarah. They both agreed to move to Illinois where they had family. My father had family in Chicago while my mother had family in Carmi. They agreed to let Sarah live with her friend’s family and stay in Arizona