Passion is different for everyone, for me it is striving to do the best I can and putting all my focus into what I am doing. Any one person can have a passion for anything, for love, for hate, for sports or for music. My passion is for swimming.
I spend hours and hours in the water and at the pool so I can be the best that I can. I live to swim and swim to live. Whether it is spending time at the pool or at a meet from seven in the morning until 9 at night, because I have a passion for the sport.
People think that swimming lap after lap is boring, but the way my team mates push me and challenge me makes it exciting. To be able to see individual results at each meet, isn't like most sports. The feeling of pushing yourself to see what you can do, can not be duplicated. Through my friends, competition and training, I have developed a passion for swimming that can not be duplicated.
Monday, September 6, 2010
Blog Entry 7
Wealth brings happiness, a statement that is widely debated. Although it seems that if you have alot of money, that you can be happy, but the characters in "The Great Gatsby" prove otherwise.
The hollowness that is shown in Gatsby is an example of how you can have all the money in the world, and throw huge parties, but still not be happy. Gatsby strives to get the attention of Daisy, who he fell in love with long ago and has been trying to get the attention of her ever since.
Gatsby dedicated his life to becoming very wealthy after working for millionare at a young age. He wanted to become wealthy because he wanted to do anything he could to get to the social position, and wealth to win over Daisy.
The fact that Gatsby would do anything to become wealthy, including criminal activity to get the wealth. But, the different types of wealth Gatsby and Daisy have seem to keep them apart. The fact that they are both wealthy, but have no love, shows that even though they are both very wealthy, they are hollow and unhappy.
The hollowness that is shown in Gatsby is an example of how you can have all the money in the world, and throw huge parties, but still not be happy. Gatsby strives to get the attention of Daisy, who he fell in love with long ago and has been trying to get the attention of her ever since.
Gatsby dedicated his life to becoming very wealthy after working for millionare at a young age. He wanted to become wealthy because he wanted to do anything he could to get to the social position, and wealth to win over Daisy.
The fact that Gatsby would do anything to become wealthy, including criminal activity to get the wealth. But, the different types of wealth Gatsby and Daisy have seem to keep them apart. The fact that they are both wealthy, but have no love, shows that even though they are both very wealthy, they are hollow and unhappy.
Saturday, September 4, 2010
Blog Entry 6
Sacrifice
I give all my free time to swimming. I swim back and forth over a hundred times a day, I do more flips in one practice than a cheerleader does in a lifetime. People say I sacrifice my time, but for me it is a lifestyle choice. It is something that I want to do.
A sacrifice means to surrender or give up, I am not giving up anything. I am gaining strength and knowledge, knowledge of how to keep my life in check.
Swimming is something that people find boring, lap after lap, it is pointless. They don't see it how I do, it is fascinating. Training with friends, challenging each other to go faster and friendly competition with your team mates. I live to swim all the time, whether it is waking up before the sun is up or staying at finals til the sun is always done, I do not sacrifice my time to swim, I choose to use my freetime to swim.
Sacrifice is a foreign term to me, I don't listen to people that tell me I have no life outside of swimming, because swimming is my life and this is how I want to spend it. I strive to be strong, focussed and stubborn about the right things.
I give all my free time to swimming. I swim back and forth over a hundred times a day, I do more flips in one practice than a cheerleader does in a lifetime. People say I sacrifice my time, but for me it is a lifestyle choice. It is something that I want to do.
A sacrifice means to surrender or give up, I am not giving up anything. I am gaining strength and knowledge, knowledge of how to keep my life in check.
Swimming is something that people find boring, lap after lap, it is pointless. They don't see it how I do, it is fascinating. Training with friends, challenging each other to go faster and friendly competition with your team mates. I live to swim all the time, whether it is waking up before the sun is up or staying at finals til the sun is always done, I do not sacrifice my time to swim, I choose to use my freetime to swim.
Sacrifice is a foreign term to me, I don't listen to people that tell me I have no life outside of swimming, because swimming is my life and this is how I want to spend it. I strive to be strong, focussed and stubborn about the right things.
Blog Entry 4
Old and Young
You see an elderly person, you think wise, wrinkles and slow. You see someone who is young, you think youthful, energitic and innocent. Opposites sometimes are two things that can be the more similar than anything else.
When you are young, you still need the care of adults, that is the same for elders. They depend on other people. As a young child you depend on your parents and as you start to get older, they think that their dependence on others is less and less. But, when they get to a certain age, they need to be helped. They first need help from their parents, but now they get help from their kids, nieghbors and close people around them.
Even though different ages, and different eras in time bring about different people, young or old, but their dependence on others never change.
You see an elderly person, you think wise, wrinkles and slow. You see someone who is young, you think youthful, energitic and innocent. Opposites sometimes are two things that can be the more similar than anything else.
When you are young, you still need the care of adults, that is the same for elders. They depend on other people. As a young child you depend on your parents and as you start to get older, they think that their dependence on others is less and less. But, when they get to a certain age, they need to be helped. They first need help from their parents, but now they get help from their kids, nieghbors and close people around them.
Even though different ages, and different eras in time bring about different people, young or old, but their dependence on others never change.
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Blog Entry 5
Being comfortable always seems like it should fit anyone, but the society has changed it to wear there should only be one comfortable. If you are to become comfortable with something that is not accepted by society, you are demmed different. This is not what comfortable means. The Box Man does not fit societies views as being comfortable, he is demmed different. The cat and the soup lady are considered normal because they live in a house and they have the material items, so they should be comfortable. What society sees as comfortable, or normal, doesn't always mean it is comfortable for a single person.
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