In Daphne Kingma’s book, The Future of Love, she said, “In the end nothing we do or say in this lifetime will matter as much as the way we have loved one another.” Our actions can be powerful in ways that we will never fully comprehend. The things we do in this world to make a change. Even if it is in the smallest ways it can affect someone 's day or life. We may be fully aware that we are having this effect, but most of the time we don’t recognize it. During the past 2 weeks I attempted to do random acts of kindness. In that 2 weeks I managed to let someone change into my lane, made a fabulous ice cream cake, and have been volunteering to help finish my school’s yearbook.
My first proclaimed random act of kindness was on my drive home
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I didn’t know how I would like it, but I actually ended up loving it. As the semester wound down and the class was almost over small sections of the yearbook still needed work. My yearbook teacher and I began talking one day about the completion of the yearbook. I was the only person in my yearbook class that had a free first period for the following semester. I offered my time during the next semester to help work further on the yearbook. So for the past two months I’ve been revising and adding little things to the yearbook. For me personally, I enjoyed working on the yearbook. Helping create something that future students can reflect back on to remember little things about school.
In these past two weeks, I managed to let someone change into my lane, made a fabulous ice cream cake, and have been volunteering help to finish my school yearbook. These are little things that can make a difference. “In the end, nothing we do or say in this lifetime will matter as much as the way we have loved one another.” We will always remember the things people do for us at some time or another. We will remember how they made us feel and how it just made our day a little bit better. In our short lives we are meant to love one another without stopping to think if they are worth the
When I gave children their gifts, I immediately their faces light up and smiles appear. I realized how something as small as this can have a profound impact on someone's life. This event was a very uplifting and meaningful experience,
The Ripple Effect Rasheed Ogunlaru once said, “some strive to make themselves great. Others help other see and find their own greatness. It’s the latter who really enrich the world we live in.” Change often begins small, seemingly influential. Then, as people watch this small spark start a fire and begin to roar, surrounding communities to decide that a change is necessary, causing a ripple of change.
“When you get down to it, that's the only purpose grand enough for a human life. Not just to love - but to persist in love.” I read these words in Sue Monk Kidd’s novel, The Secret Life of Bees, the summer before my senior year. It’s the story of selfless love, everlasting hope, and incredible faith - all three things I aspire to surround myself with some day. The novel not only challenged my views of the world, but also inspired me to consider new ways of handling difficult situations, similar to the ones with which I am faced as a peer counselor at my school.
Despite the diversity of people, having this love could unite people of completely different socioeconomic backgrounds to work together and better the world. He moves on to emphasize the importance of the community’s needs over the individual’s needs, in order for the community to grow and ensure a better future for the individuals. He closes with how in America life will be harder and God has a covenant with them, so they have to work together and succeed or they will be punished by God. He says that the world is watching them like “a city upon a hill” and if they do not succeed, people will think of them and, more importantly, God in vain... He ends with a warning of what would happen if they stray from their original
Another aphorism said by Morrie is “ The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.” Morrie talks about how important love is to people. He thinks that many people feel that they don’t deserve love. Because of this, they don’t give out love. I think that if people get affection and love, they learn how to give love to others.
Another big project that I am currently working on at Elda Elementary is recording, counting, and re-organizing every single book in the school library. I go in and take it one shelf at a time, counting each book, and recording the title and author. The librarian saw how I was coming in a lot and reached out to me asking if I would be interested in doing this for her. It has taken me four weeks now and I am not even halfway done. I like helping Mrs. Francis out because of how sweet and grateful she is for everything I do for her.
For example, entering into a relationship with my boyfriend allowed me to realize how important communication is to me personally, and how to be a better communicator. He allowed me to recognize and identify my priorities; that I value spending time together and sharing experiences more than material items or gifts. Independence thrives from interdependence on other people. In other words, our ability to act courageously as individuals is aided by our participation with others around us. “Therefore he who has the courage to be as a part has the courage to affirm himself as a part of the community in which he participates” (Tillich 84).
If I had one operating philosophy about life, it is this: “Be cool to the pizza delivery dude; it’s good luck.” This quote supplied by Sarah Adams, not only reflects upon the simplistic aspects of life, but also contradicts the overall mindset that consumes our society today. This essay, with its strong use of civic virtues, gave me as the reader, a new look into how I live my everyday life and how I tend to deal with the situations I have at hand. In the essay, “Be Cool to the Pizza Dude” by Sarah Adams, the use of ongoing kindness and compassion provides insight into the value of human life, that connected with me through an intellectual, emotional, and personal standpoint.
By digging deep inside this poem Richard Lovelace shares a universal truth with us all, whether or not we are facing similar decisions, we have to first think about ourselves and our own needs but also be mindful of those who show us unconditional love. The example given is choosing to go to war and keeping the honor that he has by thinking about what is best for himself, but on top of that he is also thinking about the best for his significant other Lucasta. She is the pure light in his life and always will be, but compromise has to be made for the better of them both in the end. People may get hurt in the end and not fully understand the intentions behind the thoughts of others, but if these intentions are pure and are what is best in their mind then they should carry on. As in the poem, we may interpret one’s intentions and choices as unkind and not try to understand the burden that the person has gone through at first; instead of expanding and analyzing the true thoughts behind a final decision, just as we would want others to do upon us, leading us to possibly coming to terms/respecting the compromises or sacrifices our loved ones have had to
“We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something.” -Mother Teresa. Though we think that our daily activities will not make a difference in the world, in reality every single action has the potential to change the future of the world.
And how love can really make a difference in someone’s life. This book would open someones
In many times a person can be living day to day, but if they see that another person is having it worse than them they will do all they can to help them out. The ones in need often give more than the ones who have more than enough. The most important thing to them is that they were able to help someone out at least in the smallest way. When people get together and contribute to each other in any way, shape, or form the world’s humanity is helped out. Giving when you barely have any, or accepting the small gestures that you receive from someone are things that are
Compassion to me means you care about something or someone you love deeply. It means that you emotions and strong feelings about the things you care about. You need someone to love and care about you even when you’re in a bad place or in trouble. You need to help people with their work if they don’t understand what they are doing. You can easily believe in helping and taking care of yourself if those things come your way
This is an opportunity I am not missing. There are many possibilities with being on the yearbook staff, being a “yearbook-ee”. From learning how a camera works to expressing creativity. I hope to help make this yearbook spectacular.
It is also pivotal for one to realize that nothing beats first-hand experiences―one's life lessons, to be exact. For instance, during my sophomore year of college, I spent many weeks complaining about my life; in fact, I was acting like an ungrateful little boy who did not get a new toy car for his collection. For that reason, I consider myself to be a wise and ambitious young man. I thank God, my beloved mother, family, friends, and Christopher Lewis Calderone, my special friend in heaven for guiding me to the right path in life. If it were not for them, I would not be this bright and determined young man.