Our Happy Lives

Playing softball since I was in the first grade has taught me many life lessons over the years. At the first practice I went to, we learned the basics and mechanics of softball, like throwing, fielding, and hitting. My favorite is hitting, and still is today. As I grew up, I learned many new drills. Learning new drills made me realize that players had to start from the bottom and work my way up the ladder to get better. As I became a better player and started playing competitive softball, it was

when I looked into her eyes it was like looking into a black hole. There was nothing there, that was the day in my mind that she left this earth. Her body remained but she was already gone. It got worse as years passed, for a short while she lived in our home, having a constant reminder of her disease was heartbreaking and watching her struggle to put together who you were was incredibly hard to watch. she struggled with this disease for ten long years until she left us completely and was free to go

loyal team. My heart is the leader with my thoughtful head that works collaboratively and diligently with my hands. I want to share several events that rely on these three important possessions. This guiding value has given me every blessing in this happy and fulfilled life. In my twenties, I believed it was the best time of my life. During my thirties, I thought it couldn’t get any better and these had to be the best years for anyone growing up. At the half mark of my forties, I am sure this is the

Citizen Kane tells the provocative, epic story of a Charles Kane, A newfound wealth kid who acquired a fortune, was detracted from his unassuming environment and his dad and mom, was raised by a financier, and turned into a spectacularly well off, self-important, and enthusiastic newspaperman. He made his notoriety for being the liberal, hopeful champion of the underprivileged, and set his self absorbed personality on a political profession, until the point when those political dreams were broken

What is graduation? Some people would say that it's proof of the freedom we will soon experience. Some say that it's the end of the best years of our lives. Some would say that it's when we're forced to grow up and become adults. Some would say that it's just another day, no different than any other day, other than the scrolls, the funny outfits and the clapping. Some go into it silent, awaiting their chance to be recognized for their victory dance. Some use stupid comparisons to describe it by saying

I’ve never wanted anything as bad as I wanted this. I’ve never put this much effort into anything as I did this. I prepared myself for this one event that would be a big milestone for me. Seventh grade volleyball tryouts. Volleyball was a family sport and my first love. I wasn’t obsessed over the Jonas brothers or Hannah Montana; I was madly in love with the game of volleyball. How it had a physical strain as well as a mental strain. Volleyball isn’t thought of as a mental game, but there’s a lot

do we actually become happy, Do we actually have control over how happy we are? After reading different articles and watching a couple of Ted Talks I do believe we strongly influence and control how happy we actually are for example in “The Key to Happiness: Partly Genetic, But You Control The Rest” the article talks about genetics and how that affects our level of happiness and how twins are usually just as happy as the other the article states that genetics are 50% of our happiness which came

what they actually have that makes them happy. "Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasure that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom." Benjamin Franklin had the right idea when he said this. It is the little things in life that really, truly get to us and make our lives whole. The meaning behind this passage is that we need to recognize what happens in our daily life that makes us sincerely happy and that we should not take what we have

Living for a worthwhile end. At the end of our lives, we all want to be able to feel as though the life that we lived on earth was a good and happy one. This seems like the ultimate goal that we strive for every day. However, the question arises as to how we can meet this goal by the way that we live our daily lives. If you were to ask random people on the street how they live a good and happy life, each person would give you a different answer. This is because everyone has a different perspective

Happy is a word that derived from the Middle English language and is one word that has not really changed over time. The meaning of happy has always meant a pleasant feeling, fortunate, or lucky. This five lettered word plays a huge role in our lives every day, from keeping us healthy to our everyday attitudes. As we have probably heard before, the key to life is happiness. It unlocks many doors and brings new opportunities to the table. Happy has been expressed in a few ways over time, dating