...figure in one's life, and utilize them to make your close one, who is grieving the loss of her/his mother, feel comforted. Words of Condolence For the Loss of a Mother No words of condolence you put together can heal a person grieving the loss of her/his mother. But it can definitely provide a small amount of comfort, in knowing that someone is there to share the grief and to be there when needed. This gives them courage to move on and face each day with a little more strength. Use any of these sympathy sayings, phrases, poems, and simple words of sympathy, as condolences for your loved one. • Say not, in grief, that your mother has gone, but always remain thankful that she was yours. • Words, however kind, can't mend your heartache, but those who care and share your loss with you, pray and hope for your...
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...IN LOVE BY: ANONYMOUS When you think of your past love, you may view it as a failure. But when you find a new love, you view the past as a teacher. In the game of love, it doesn't really matter who won or who lost. What is important is you know when to hold on and when to let go! You know you really love someone when you want him or her to be happy, even if his or her happiness means that you're not part of it. Everything happens for the best. If the person you love doesn't love you back, don't be afraid to love someone else again, for you'll never know unless you give it a try. You'll never truly love a person you love unless you RISK FOR LOVE. Love strives in hurting. If you don't get hurt, you don't learn how to love. Love doesn't hurt all the time, though the hurting is still there to test you and to help you grow. Don't find love, let love find you. That's why it's called falling in love because you don't force yourself to fall. You just fall. You cannot finish a book without closing its chapters. If you want to go on, then you have to leave the past as you turn the pages. Love is not destroyed by a single failure nor won by a single caress. It is a lifetime venture in which we are always learning, relearning, discovering, rediscovering, and growing. The greatest irony of love is LETTING GO WHEN YOU WANT TO HOLD ON and HOLDING ON WHEN YOU NEED TO LET GO. We lose someone we love only when we are destined to find someone else who can love us even more than we can love ourselves...
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...“AN AMATEUR LOVE ‘’ Life is full of wonders, frustrations, disappointments, pains, heartaches and depressions. No one never dreamed of experiencing pain caused by lies, decfeption, betrayal, mistrust, and complications. Life has to be enjoyed, love must be shared but in doing so, you have to do a lot of sacrifices especially in love. My cousins used to tell me not to enter into a relationship unless I have proven myself and that I should focus on my studies first. So, I come to realize that somehow his words were true. What would happen to me if I engage in that kind of situation? Will I still be free? Will I still mingle with my friends? Will I still need my parent’s advice? Come to think of it? As part of the world’s modernization the youth of today also grows in the essence of itself. Technology is one solid evidence of the world’s progress. It is a way of having advance knowledge of the near future but also one way of forgetting our elder’s used to traditions and beliefs. The traditions of having a serious relationship of elders come up at the age of 20 for the girls, 21 for the boys. But as modernization comes up, teens already have engaged in serious affairs. We usually call it, AN AMATEUR LOVE. I have friends, even classmates who already have boyfriends and girlfriends. At first they were very happy but as the day passed by, I found out that they broke up easily because they could not control their emotions. They are immature...
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...In A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, he put a twist on it. It was post to be a comedy but it’s a mix of both comedy and a love story. Love is something that’s hard to explain because love is hard to find, but when you do it’s always something that tries to get in the way of you being happy because love is a tricky thing. Some people make love seem all fun and easy to be in but when they get in love themselves, they can see the heartache and plain they got to go through. In the story Egeus had went to see Thesus, duke of Athens with a complaint against his daughter Hermia. Even though he promised she was to marry Demetrius, who was in love with her but Lysander, an Athenian youth who had won her heart. Hermia had refuse to listen to her father in marry Demetrius because she was so in love with Lsyander. Her not wanting to marry Demetrius didn’t sit well with Egeus that he demanded she be punish by law for not obeying his word. Thesus then went to her in said she will be sent to nunnery or put to death for not wanting to marry him. Lysander had then made it seem that Demetrius is not telling the truth about being in love with Hermia because he was once engaged to her friend Helena. Which was a smart thing to being that up at that time because they was talking about putting her to death for not marrying him. When Thesus, Egeus, and Demetrius had left the room. Lysander came up with a plan for them to run away together in go live with his aunt, who lives seven leagues...
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...The Fault In Our Stars by John Green, he builds a story out of darkness and despair. He takes the tragedy of cancer and immerses us in the lives of characters that could very well be real. Many know of the heartaches in dealing with those who fight the fight, and many of those scars last a lifetime. He brings his story in the form of a teen girl, Hazel Lancaster. Stricken with cancer from a young age, she believes she has come to terms with what her life has become. Then she meets a young man, Augustus Waters, a survivor of cancer. He is drawn to her in a way that is initially uncomfortable, and as she tries to push him away in her sarcastic vein, he finds her to be exactly the type of girl he has been looking for. Throughout the story there is a beauty and humor, a 'candle in the wind' for each of those whose lives have been touched by such an uncaring disease. For cancer touches not just the victim but all those who love and are in anyway touched by them. Be prepared for a story of romance and anger, excitement and humor, and friendship and bravery for that is the direction we are led as Green develops the personality of a group of teens that have the courage to bring both laughter and tears. The stories that encircle each individual give you a glimpse of the character and daring as well as abiding hope. Hidden within that strengththey also hide the depression and hopelessness as they try hard to protect their family and friends by showing only the smiles and strength...
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...to interacting with each other. They are not hesitant to express what they feel. They smile to their greatest desire. Problems and heartaches do not exist. One morning, the bright ray of the sun touched my skin and it made me woke up in no time. I get up and ate my breakfast with my family without any word with them. After breakfast, I rushed to my room and opened my planner to look for the things-to-do for that day. It was amusing to see that I really have a lot of stuffs to do. I find it very productive whenever I conquered the day with everything accomplished. So, I went out and conquered the day with all my strength. I went home by that night, very tired and weary yet I am very thankful for that very productive day since I conquered and accomplished everything. I decided to go to sleep to have an early rest. I grew up with love and fear of the Lord. I used to make reflection and pray to God before sleeping. In Praying I used to follow an ACTS prayer. That night I cried after summing-up all of the good things that happen in that day. That cry was a tear of joy because my mother’s health is improving. My mother was unwell for the past days. She always catches her breath whenever she took a short walk. She can’t sleep very well every night because she is not feeling well. I am very thankful for that day because may mother is getting well. I love her so much, but I do not know how to express it to her. At that very moment I remembered the activity in our school that gave time...
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...In Chelsea Dingman’s Clan of Fatherless Children, the poet uses the title to address the son of the speaker. It provides the reader an idea of what type of subject is to be explored. As the title suggests, a boy who does not have a father is mentioned in the poem, yet is not its core. The poem does not center around the boy, it instead describes how the boy ended up as a part of the Clan mentioned in the title. His mother relives the accident in which the father was lost. The poem’s purpose is to provide an outline, a story, for how the touched upon Clan gathers its members. Dingman equips words choices that provides the poem with a an empty, almost heartbroken tone. The narrator looks back on her relationship with her love who has passed...
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...1. Summarize the “Ted” talk in your own words. Dr. Brown's presentation is about the paradigm shift in traditional thinking that vulnerability is a sign of weakness. Through her research she concluded that vulnerability is also the birthplace of love and creativity. People who are willing to be vulnerable, open themselves up for the possibility of living more fulfilling lives. Dr. Brown's presentation is also an account of a personal journey into self acceptance. She stated that vulnerability pushed and she pushed back. She lost the fight, but probably won her life. 2. Identify the assumptions made by the speaker. One of our basic needs is a need to feel connected. Frequently, we sabotage the possibility of making a connection by feeling unworthy. Vulnerability, the key element in the process of recognizing self-worthiness, is traditionally considered a sign of weakness, is also a sign of courage. Courage to be imperfect. People, who have a strong sense of connection and love, the wholehearted people, have the courage to accept themselves as worthy, with or perhaps despite the imperfections. 3. Describe any evidence given to support these assumptions. In order to protect our selves, we numb vulnerability by raising shields of: • perfectionism - doing everything perfectly • numbing - using alcohol, drugs, food or work • blame - making the uncertain, certain Through this process, as we do not have the ability to selectively numb our...
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...relationship with food and found “the joy of living wrapped around food” this explains how Tita developed a sixth sense about everything concerning food. Tita’s sixth sense allows her emotions go into the food she's preparing, and the food then heavily influences the plot development in the chapter The first episode where Titas sixth sense is shown is at the wedding of Pedro and Rosaura. Tita is so hurt and betrayed by Pedro the man she loves and does not know how he could marry her own sister. But Mama Elena will not let her show these feeling in front of the family so Tita is forced to suppress her emotions. Once Mama Elena leaves the kitchen, Nacha encourages Tita to release her emotions before the wedding. Finally able to express herself, Tita breaks down and cries. After weeping for a while, Tita continues cooking and finds that her tears have made the cake batter soggy. Nacha tastes the cake icing to see if Tita's tears have made it salty. She finds the flavor unchanged, but is suddenly overcome with a sense of loss. She remembers her own lost love and is brought down with an ache so terrible that she cannot...
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...discrimination of women, inner strength of women, pregnancy and children and shame. In this book, loyalty and devotion is expressed through the relationship between Laila and her father as well as the relationship between Mariam and Laila. Laila loves her father to death. She loves him to death and understands why he believes its so important that she becomes educated so she commits to that and finds a way to get an education. Laila and Miriam’s loyalty is shown to each other in the book by going forth with their confronting of the abusive husband they once shared as well as helping each other raise their kids even though they have to practically do it on their own. Discrimination of women is a major theme in this book. This is a result of the Afghanistan society that is surrounded by this book. This book takes place solely in Afghan during a harsh period of women discrimination. Men have complete power over their wives and in this book, the Taliban makes it law that men have complete power over their wives. These women experience heartbreaking attributes such as abuse, murder and humiliation which is completely tolerated in this time. Inner strength of a women is also displayed throughout this book. Mariam and Laila experience mass amounts of heartache with being women and being apart of an abusive marriage. Though, they continuously pull it together and take care of their children the best they can. Mariam faces a father who refuses to claim a child of her decent as well as an abusive...
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...I was born Georgi Melitonovitch Balanchivadze in St. Petersburg, Russia, on January 22, 1904. I am the son of Meliton and Maria Balanchivadze. I was surrounded by music and artistic influences from a very early age. My father was a composer, therefore I studied the piano as a child frequently. However, at the age of ten, I entered the Imperial Ballet School, where I learned the precise and athletic Russian dancing style of ballet. In 1921 I entered the St. Petersburg Conservatory of Music to study piano while I continued to work in ballet at the State Academy of Opera and Ballet. From there I used a group of dancers from the school to present my earliest choreographed works. One of the students was Tamara Gevergeyeva, she was a doll, I later married Tamara in 1922. She was the first of four wives I had, all of whom were dancers. My big break came when the manager of the Ballets Russes, Sergei Diaghilev, discovered me in 1925, in Paris, France. At the age of 21, I became the main choreographer of the most famous ballet company in the world. I worked on ten ballets for Diaghilev, and it was Diaghilev who actually changed the my name to Balanchine. When Diaghilev died and the company broke up in 1929, I moved from one company to another until I formed my own company, Les Ballets in 1933. In that same year, after a Les Ballets performance, I met Lincoln Kirstein, a young, rich American, who invited me to head a new School of American Ballet in New York City. With the School...
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...loud my thoughts were but when I looked up everyone was carrying about in their normal routines. Women were bustling by me pushing strollers and trying to figure out their chores for the day and men were jogging by me in hopes of being healthy after forty. I knew that the realization I had just come to was so amazing and profound that the world just had to have stopped right in front of me. I felt that I had discovered something so valuable that people just had to know what was going on in my head. After about five minutes of a silent, mental whirlwind I decided to come back to reality and reflect on what I just read. The Warden, as she is so affectionately called, has one mission and purpose in life. She is not interested in falling in love or acquiring a summer home in Europe. She doesn’t want three kids or a professional athlete as a husband. She...
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...the inner strength of Afghan women allows them to endure difficult situations including forced marriages, lack of educational opportunities and and Taliban restrictions. A Thousand Splendid Suns, written by Khaled Hosseini is a story of two young afghan women, Laila and Mariam, who face and overcome many tragedies and live in a country ruined by political oppression and war. Both Mariam and Laila have endured so much heartache partially because they are women, but yet have managed to have pulled together the strength to persevere. To persevere is to maintain a purpose in spite of difficulty, obstacles, or discouragement and continue consistently. Even though Mariam and Laila are years apart by age, and come from two different life styles, they are both forced to marry Rasheed, an older man who they don’t... A Thousand Splendid Suns, written by Khaled Hosseini is a story of two young afghan women, Laila and Mariam, who face and overcome many tragedies and live in a country ruined by political oppression and war. Both Mariam and Laila have endured so much heartache partially because they are women, but yet have managed to have pulled together the strength to persevere. Even though Mariam and Laila are years apart by age, and come from two different life styles, they are both forced to marry Rasheed , an older man who they do not know, in order to make a living for themselves. Mariam and Laila eventually learn to cooperate as they undergo Rasheed's emotional and physical abuse, and...
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...become a part of who I am and how I’ve lived my life. In ancient Greece, the temple of Apollo at Delphi bore the inscription Meden Agan - 'Nothing in excess'. 1 The ancient Greeks knew what my high school classmate had—that moderation makes life run more smoothly. Moderation in this day and age is not always hip though. What are cool are extremes, from extreme sports to extreme home makeovers. But it seems that for a lot of people, straying from the path of moderation causes nothing but heartache, from the drinker who loses everything to the bottle, to the gambler who loses his life’s savings. The more extreme our wants, the more we must accumulate to make ourselves happy. But I also think moderation can make for an extremely boring life. It’s a life played safely and without true passion. But even one, good, all-consuming passion can make life exciting and infinitely more fun. Passion makes life worth living. The passion can be anything—for a husband, a child, one’s family, or for a career you love, for travel or a hobby or a cause that consumes you. For me it is several of those things. It’s the “icing on the cake” of one’s life. So I believe, have your moderation...
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...Imagine being the mother of a son who has committed a very serious crime, would you still love him with all your heart? The answer to that question would vary depending on different points of views, but from my understanding most people would. Why though? Your son just violated the law, and you would still forgive him? This all comes down to love and loyalty. In Beowulf, loyalty played a major role in the relationship between Grendel and Grendel’s mother. Grendel’s mother knew her son was atrocious, but the love between her and her son never changed. Grendel’s mother was loyal to her son when defeat played a part in his death, and adds to my belief that a mother’s loyalty will never changed no matter how gruesome their child is. Every child or adolescent gets into trouble, hoping that their parents will still love them the same. For instance, Grendel’s attacks on Hrothgar’s people. He standed “hoping to kill” the innocent people of their country. Even though Grendel terrorizes Hrothgar’s halls and made everyone miserable, he was still loved by his mother. Now look at a similar scenario from a modern eye, think about a young boy causing a destruction. The d mother of the young boy would be disappointed by her son’s behavior, but the love for him will not change; furthermore,...
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