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Self Confidence Essay By A 15yr Boy With A Rare Cancer-like Disease.

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Friday, June 11th, 2010
The Gifted One

Every day there are new gifts delivered as someone is born. The only thing people can see are the prices that are paid and not the talent that is delivered. It is in there somewhere, it is in every one of us. The boy discovers his power unraveling it inch by inch with still miles to go. As soon as the gift was discovered, the soul becomes a warrior, with the heart like a shield. He is a completely different person on the inside, but he is the exact same person the whole entire time.

When he was born, the masterpiece was delivered, but so was the bill. The gift is invisible, but the bill isn’t. The price that was paid was unbearable. The mother goes through more pain seeing the child on wheels, than the child does. The cost is something that never goes away. It can’t be lived with, but it also can’t be lived without. The symptoms never go away and get worse over time. Dying to figure out the answer to the million dollar question, the caring mother goes to the doctors, but they tell her he is normal. Years pass, it seems hopeless. After hundreds of visits one man stands out of the crowd and diagnoses a disease. Both shocked and pleased, the mother solved the enigma. A genetic test all the way across the country solved the riddle. When the word of the diease was given was introduced, the tides turned. Her heart was sowed back together. Then the gift became visible. The doctor showed the statistics of IQ for the disease to me. It was like getting a blessing. Out of nowhere the confidence overwrites my thinking and turned me into a genius. It was a completely different world for me, but nothing had changed.

It has made me into someone that most people will only dream of. At the time it seemed hard to believe. Removing tumors one step at a time is like paying for the piece one step at a time. It isn’t half bad to stand out from the crowd in a positive way, with the only cost requiring a couple of surgeries every decade and an MRI scan twice a year. Every step is another step toward exterminating the imperfection but not taking away the gift.

Everyone in the world has a gift. Going through this process doesn’t create one; it lets someone know what theirs is. It turns someone into a hero. It destroys the poison that prevented them from being optimistic. This life changing experience has always boggled my mind: If the doctor wouldn’t have told me the gift that I have, would I be as successful as I am now in school? This has proved that it is better to have a disability, endowment, and be strong in the inside than it is to be normal. Another question that is equally puzzling is: Is the reason why I am smart because I think I am, or is it because of genetics? It is better to think that you have a gift and develop one than have a gift and not use it.

Standing out of the crowd is both the most marvelous, and the worst part. It has turned me into a model, every day discovering something new that the gift can do. It has taught me that a person’s optimism is generated by their perspective on things. The most important thing to remember is it is not the drawback itself that is the worst part. It is how it affects a person mentally. Self esteem and fear is like its own disease. This occurs during the early stages of becoming a hero. This is cured when the trip to becoming a warrior is complete. Fear eats the victim faster than the tumors do. Knowing what the gift is, curse this.

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Tuesday, April 13th, 2010

The Man behind the veil

A man curtained his face in mask of veil

He hid not but his face, but the emtion’s he’d feel

He hid his mouth to hid his speech

He hid his soft heart out of reach

He hid his eyes to hide his soul

He hid his heart with a gaping hole

The man nor talk to you or me

Approach him and see how fast he’d flee

But what was he running from? You may ask

He ran from somehting impeccably fast

He ran from his shadow that never went away

He ran from regets of yesterday

He ran from every mistake he made

He ran and wished he could fade

But unfortunately to his dismay

The sun may leave but our shadows always stay

So we must learn to cope with our ways

To learn to take off that shame filled mask

And forget mistakes from our guilty past.

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Poem by 16yr girl, D.S

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Boredom, Or Do We Really Want That Chocolate?

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Thursday, March 18th, 2010

 

What is boredom?  How do we know when we ate it is because we were actually only bored?  Is boredom disguising some other feeling? Is the urge to eat chocolate really helping the boredom? What can change that empty, restless, alone feeling—empty candy wrappers,  glaring at computer images, surfing the web—doesn’t really change that does it? Eating feels a little good, and yet, how much does it take to feel better?  Tight seams on the pants or top and tugging on the jeans zipper doesn’t add to more good feelings; or how about creating more distractions—isn’t that what we really thought we could do with the food ? Distract ourselves? What happens if we don’t attempt to distract and we simply sit with the feeling or the discomfort? What is the boredom covering up? Loneliness? Is the chocolate going to curtail the loneliness? The anger or the? Aren’t there better treatments? Can’t we eat and enjoy the chocolate for its own sake?  How about sitting with boredom? Can we let that be what it is?

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What Is Motivation?

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Monday, April 27th, 2009

How can you tell if someone is motivated?

Motivation refers to the initiation, direction of intensity and
persistence of behavior (Green, 95).
Motivation means to move, deployment of energy is often evidence of motivation.

This motivation is the desire and willingness to do.

Indirect motivation-action satisfies an intermediate goal which can
lead to satisfaction of a need; money.

Direct motivation-action satisfies the need; job satisfaction.

To produce the highest level of motivation, extrinsic and intrinsic
goals
need to be combined.

Extrinsic goals are:

  • Reinforces that come from outside of your self.
  • External rewards such as praise, money (when value is placed on money)
  • Food, toys, etc. (yes many people are and do get rewarded with food) Read More→
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