Josie Lathrop
Ms.Youngker
English 2
3 November 2011
This I believe
When I was younger, my grandparents house got destroyed. I went to visit them, and everything was gone. The tornado had taken almost every item they owned. They had nothing left. Seeing this made me realize that things can be taken away at anytime. But there’s one thing that can’t be taken away and that’s your self appreciation. I believe in making yourself as good as you can while you can. My grandparents didn’t go to bed thinking in a couple of hours, everything would change.
One day, I’ll never know when, something could happen to me. I could even die tomorrow. I won’t be thinking about I how spent hours being upset because somebody wasn’t my friend anymore, or all the high school drama. Right now though, all of this seems so important. But 5 years from now, all of these silly problems are going to be gone, and I’ll be faced with real problems of the world. I’ve started to realize that I’ve been wasting a lot of time worrying about things that aren’t going to matter pretty soon.
I usually think that if I have a lot of things, the value of me would go up. If I had all of this stuff, people would want to be me. But what if my house got hit by a tornado and lost everything? I wouldn’t have that $100.00 purse, or that cute jacket I bought. I would have myself. That’s the only truly important thing. If I had spent my whole life working towards making myself a better person, I would be a lot better off. Instead of getting upset because somebody called me a name, I could’ve done everything I could to prove them wrong.
If everything got taken away, you would only have a strong mind, character, happiness and everything else that makes us strong. I’m not their all the way yet, but I’m going to try and live my fullest, and making myself the best that I can be.
