Everyone makes mistakes, whether big or small. That’s why no one’s perfect. We all learn from something – by observing, listening, asking. Sometimes, we learn from others’s mistakes. But other times, we find ourselves confronted with the consequences brought about by our own mistakes. Whether done intentionally or unintentionally, mistakes are mistakes. And as we are human beings, we have no power to press rewind and do things over. It’s done, it’s there, we have to deal with it – that’s life.
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the little things. Like the way you laugh mid kiss sometimes, and look at me like you can’t believe what is happening. Or the way you reach over in your still sleep-fogged state and pull me close to you as if you cannot keep me close enough. Or simply the way you look at me when we laugh; laughing with you is my favorite. It’s like looking directly into your core and seeing how truly vulnerable you can be; laughing with me yet hoping I won’t break your heart. But what you don’t know is that I could
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on the things we can do to make our dreams a reality. And the evidence shows that it can make us happier as a result. I would like to be happy forever in the future. Being happy is a state of mind and I wish to be in that state forever. It doesn’t matter what I do on the career front or on my personal front, but I want happiness to be associated throughout with me. This is because I have learnt that only if a person is happy is he able to make people around him happy. This is how happiness multiplies
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would not be standing up on this stage right now. I can’t believe it’s been 100 years for me. Looking back on what made me successful, I would say that the lack of focus and motivation when I was younger helped me in the long run because even though I wasn’t getting the best grades in high school, during college, I really started to up my game because I realized that slacking and the lack of motivation doesn’t get me anywhere, except maybe down. It’s weird. I’m 100 years old, after college, graduated
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Dinner with Biff and Happy Dinner with Biff was not a success. He said that Bill Oliver made him wait six hours for nothing. Biff stole his pen to top it all. Biff is just a failure. If he hadn’t flunked math he could’ve been something. No, he’s no good, he’s no good for anything. He would’ve had lunch with Oliver tomorrow if he wasn’t a dirty thief. I’ve provided for that kid my whole life and this is how he repays me? Where’s the respect? All Biff does is spite me! He says that he only went to
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difficult to make. The only thing that gave me the courage to do what is right was my mother and my family who supported everything I did. My mother always knew that by me not continuing my education will not get me a good job. She always stated to go back to school and better myself. As time went by it got harder for me to go back to school, and the evitable happen I became pregnant. I was unable to go to school then because I had to work to support my daughter. The opportunity for me to go back
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For me to be successful when I look back on my life, I need to be happy. I want a beautiful family, a wonderful support system, a job that I love, a life full of accomplishments and activities I can be proud of, and to be financially well off. The most important part of my success is my family. I want a family I can be proud to say is mine and is supportive of my decisions. This is important to my feeling of success because it is something I have wanted for a long time. I am looking forward to having
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eat that large pizza with fries on your way to your destination? I live by the quote “live life to the fullest”, and “you do you” because I want to be happy on the day I die, not worried or in pain. In the play Our Town by Thornton Wilder, Emily Webb is dead and wishes she could relive a happy moment in her life in act three. I was also living a happy moment too until the accident happened. It was August 3, 2016, 90-100 degrees outside so why would
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child is born, and to me, well like most people, have not quite figured that out yet. In Eric Weiner’s eye-opening novel, The Geography of Bliss, Weiner travels to each corner of the earth to try and figure out what really makes people happy, why, and if there really is a science behind it. As Americans, our point of view of other countries is somewhat clouded due to how involved we are with our own but we cannot deny that we are not the happiest country in the world. What makes our country so unhappy
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for his or her family. The salesman name is Willy in which his family is mentioned throughout the play. At the beginning his wife Linda, is always very supportive of his views towards his sales career as Willy has to make sales all over the United States and travels a lot in order to make his career strong. Willy Loman, an old salesman, returns early from a business trip. After nearly crashing multiple times, Willy has a moment of enlightenment and realizes he shouldn't be driving. Seeing that her husband
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