Sadness Essay

In life everyone will face some form of hardship. Some people may not go through as many hardships as some others might but we all still have our own personal problems. In my life I have not faced many hardships like some others have which I am very grateful for such things not happening to me. But even though I haven't gone through many hardships I have still had my own fair share of personal hardships. One such hardship I have gone through twice is overcoming the death of a loved one. This hardship

The Oxygen Thief The smell of death and sadness lingered over my shoulders lie a monster whispering all my deepest fears in my ears. Tan and navy blue coated the bland walls, the same blank wall my empty eyes stared at while my mother spoke to a doctor. The doctor’s voice was sickening to my core and her words burned like a Californian wildfire. Hearing that my pitiful life would be held captive with other sad souls made my veins go cold and heart go bloodless yet still beating so hard that my

one is safe from mischief the day everyone’s insidious side comes out. I am always wiry on that day never could be to safe.I was getting changed to go out, until I was stopped by my mom she had a sad look in her eyes and her face seemed full of sadness I knew this was serious so I sat down she came in and sat down too. “ Christian” she said “Elvis just spoke to me through the phone, that Stephanie has died”. Stephanie was my brother’s girlfriend and I would guess his true love she was crazy in a

Linda Pastan is known for writing exemplary poetry. According to the Poetry Foundation, “in her senior year at Radcliffe College, Pastan won the Mademoiselle poetry prize. Immediately following graduation, however, she decided to give up writing poetry in order to concentrate on raising her family” (“Linda Pastan”). Pastan graduated college in the 1950’s, and societies expectations for women to be a wife and mother perhaps influenced her decision. According to the Poetry Foundation, “after ten years

Jenna Fox, Jenna was saved from death through the use of biogel. There are many pluses in using biogel to stop death. Saving people from death can improve things such as lifespans, pain being felt throughout the body, and can reduce the amount of sadness people have. One of the big reasons why cheating death could be positive is the fact that people could have a longer time to live. In having a longer lifespan people would be able to experience things like having kids and traveling around the world

There have been many studies done which found a correlation between depression, marital satisfaction, and marital dissatisfaction. Depression is defined as a medical illness that causes feelings of sadness, loss of interest, change in appetite, feelings of worthlessness, and many other symptoms including thoughts of death and suicide. Many researchers measure depression using various methods such as affective self-reports. Depression is often seen amongst teenagers and some adults, but depression

out in the crowd. Once I finished up my meal I left the mall. While driving home, I thought about how all those kids appeared to be starving for attention and they all were going about it in the wrong way. I was left with an overwhelming sense of sadness. They were all lost and they had no idea. Response: It is a very rainy night tonight and I am immediately aware that they rain had not stopped the flow of people within the mall. There are people continually walking in with raincoats

A much more positive way to see depression is to look at benefits of depression. Nancy Andreasen argues that depression is closely associated with a “cognitive style” that makes people more likely to produce successful works of art (Lehrer, Jonah). One of the most important qualities in the creative process is persistent and based on Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Andreasen found that “successful writers are like prizefighters who keep on getting hit but won’t go down. They’ll stick with it until it’s right”

terms with a situation, no matter how terrible, but it is acknowledging how I will never fully accept these things. It is looking at the bad things in my life directly, and respecting that I will never be completely okay with it, and welcoming my sadness. After this night, I learned to accept my overwhelming self-hatred and fear of failure, and I grew to become more motivated and hardworking because of this. I wanted to work so that I could feel good about myself and I hoped that it would make me

Kelly Lee Professor Mello English 1B 10/17/14 Facing reality The story of “Miss Brill,” by Katherine Mansfield, is about an old English teacher, who lives by herself and visits the park every Sunday. Miss Brill sits at the same spot every Sunday, quietly observing her surrounding and listing in on other people’s conversations. Through this observation, she pretends that she is a part of this extravagant play taking place in real life, but in reality, she is just sad and lonely and wants to be