Well-Lived Life Lessons

Response to change is a major key people’s success in life. Everyday people make decisions on change. The way people act on those obstacles makes or breaks a person. Responding the right way can be one of the most challenging objectives a person may face.

Sometimes life lessons are learned the hard way. Unfortunately for me, this is how I learned mine. I do not mean to make this sad and depressing, but this is the truth.

I don't see any reason to wear a helmet when I ride a bike. Everyone bikes without a helmet.

The edge has extremely beneficial messages in the film. These messages can help us as students throughout college. We can carry these lessons to help our relationships with others and our study habits. “Just because you’re lost doesn’t mean your compass is broken” (Evans).I interpret this quote as we may be lost while were doing our study but we need to focus on the bigger picture. A number of people focus on extra activities and work during their course of high school. They get behind on the school work, work that they are paying thousands and thousands of dollars on. I want to mainly focus on my school work, which is what I am trying to achieve during the summer. I never focused on my school work during high school. I realized that it was

Three Life Learned Lessons People who hates one will break one, rate one and shake one, they will make one feel unacceptable which makes them weak, but the higher one stand the stronger one is. Although most of us can relate to this problem, many do not know how to appropriately solve this dramatic situation. Discrimination takes a big part in the 1960 novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, which takes a big toll on the main characters. The novel travels with a family that includes a six year old girl named Scout until she is nine, a ten year old boy named Jem until he is thirteen and their father Atticus, who is about fifty years old. The children learn that race discrimination is one of the biggest obstacles during this time period and learn how to overcome it.

"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." As Henry Adams stated, and is the summary of the impervious bond between the characters Mitch and Morrie, in Tuesdays with Morrie. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) often referred to as Lou Gehrig's disease is a form of motor neuron diseases. It is a rare disorder in which the nerves that control muscular activity degenerate within the brain and spinal cord. What results is weakness and wasting away of the muscles. The cause is unknown. About one to two cases of ALS are diagnosed annually per 100,000 people in the US. (Lou) Sufferers will notice weakness in the hands and arms accompanied by wasting of the muscles (Motor). The weakness

“The more often we see the things around us even the beautiful and wonderful things the more they become invisible to us. That is why we often take for granted the beauty of this world” -Joseph B. Wirthlin. Humans live life day to day without noticing the little things and are too absorbed by themselves to appreciate everyone and everything around them. Thornton Wilder, the author of Our Town addresses key life lessons in act three of the play.

Throughout the momentous storyline of To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch, father of Scout and her brother Jem, establishes himself as an honorable and eloquent individual. As a result of living a long life with plentiful escapades, he has gained a vast amount of knowledge that is passed on to his children at various points in the story. This makes it a very valuable book that is full of significant life lessons. One of these precious statements is, “You never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them.” I find this quote to be accurate, solely for the reason that no human can completely understand and relate to any other unless they have an encounter with the experiences and occurrences that those who are different

The following book is a chain of life experiences and lessons the author Michael J. Fox learned throughout his education and career. One lesson Fox learned from this passage is that in life things are always going to change no matter how you look at it and it is up to you on how it’s handled. Knowing how to handle a difference and change would help me succeed as I grow older and learn new things. The author learned this lesson through certain times in his life when he struggled. For example, in the Economics section of the passage Fox discusses his problems with earning money and paying debts when living by himself such as paying for a very small and expensive apartment, food, and everyday needs.

I had many mixed views after finishing my most recent read of The Best Things in Life: A Guide to What Really Matters, by Thomas Hurka. I agreed with his ideas that pain is greater than pleasure. I also opposed the views that not all pains are bad and not all pleasures are good.

As a high school graduate I could tell you the derivative of a complex equation and how to conjugate the French word for to play in multiple tenses, but I would not be able to change a tire or balance a check book. Due to this lack of knowledge a much needed class would be “The Life Lessons No One Tells You About”. In this class students would learn the basic human skills that would propel them through the rest of their life such as how to sow a button, how to change a tire, how to balance a check book etc.

Throughout our life we will always meet many people that teach us major life lessons,

All through life, we experience various occasions when decision-making become necessary. A number of them present themselves in difficult forms and at crucial points. Most of the verdict we take will eventually figure and describe our track of lives. These are what we refer to as lessons of life. Choices never present themselves in an easy way. In some instance we are always forced to pay a price to achieve something. This implies that we are trading for an outcome we are seeking.

Life as we know it could vanish within seconds. The next day is not promised to anyone that walks on this earth. As we live our everyday lives peacefully, we tend not to think what our mission or purpose in life is. Instead, we think what we must do for that to be a “successful” person. Despite this way of thinking, just think for a second. What makes life meaningful? What is life anyway? These questions dive right into the heart of the philosophical, psychological, and the biological aspects of life and what the true meaning of life is. This is a very arguable topic due to every person’s different perspective on life and what it means to them. In summary, I personally think that life is simply what you make of it and each person’s accomplishments has its own merit

It is common sense that all the human beings would like to live a happy life and they will spare no efforts in order to realize the purpose of really living a happy life in the end. However, different people have different definitions toward what a happy life is and they tend to have different standards as for how a life is that can be regarded as a happy life. There is no doubt that people will then try different means in order to pursue a happy life based on their definition toward what a happy life is. Therefore, the following will talk about the pursuit of a happy life from the perspectives of both Dalai Lama in The Art of Happiness and Viktor E. Frankl in Man’s Searching for Meaning, during which the experiences of some characters from the film Forrest Gump will be applied as evidence. Generally speaking, the pursuit of a happy life in the minds of Dalai Lama and Viktor E. Frankl can be achieved via experiencing sufferings and adversity. It is hoped that this analysis can help people understand what a happy is from a different point of view.