Morrie says, "You have to find what's true and good and beautiful in your life as it is now" (120).
What is the best thing about you? This is a more difficult question than it sounds! What things about you are your best traits? How can you use these traits for good?
This is a difficult question to answer. To find the most beautiful thing in your life, you would have had to have lived a life first. In high school you can’t really think of anything because you have not got to enjoy too much in life yet. You have not got to experience love and kids. You have not got to experience the stages of marriage. The great things you can look back on are you childhood and how you grew up and who you grew up around. When I was little I grew up around kids that I still go to school with now. I don’t know if that would be considered a good thing. I grew up with one loving grandma and two loving aunties. I spent more time with my one auntie than my own family. I grew up as a little girl with a dad that had been divorced and a mom that was never home because she was always working. I also had a spoiled little brother and a half sister that I hardly ever seen. This puts me in a bad position as a child right off the bat. I was the most left out of everything. My parents tried to get me into so many different kinds of activities so I could figure out what kind of an interest I would have. I actually think it was to get me out of their hair. I tried dirt bikes, horses, baseball, hockey, soccer. I fell in love with dirt bikes and baseball. I am in my senior year of high school and I really do not do much of any of that anymore but when I did do it. “Oh man was I great at it”. My dad bought us all the toys we ever wanted. I got my first dirt bike at four and my first quad at six. I wouldn’t take that back for anything. When I look at my life and figure out the most beautiful things would be that my parents loved me and cared about me. So that fact that I had/have loving parents is a great and true trait. My mom generally just bought us food and school stuff we needed and the bare minimum of what we needed. My auntie and grandma bought us the little extra things we wanted all the time. I don’t see my grandma as much now as I used to because I have grown up and started to rely on myself a lot more now. I have a job and I try really hard in school. My life is generally good and I wouldn’t change it for anything. It’s harder to look forward on life than it is back. So if you always the make right decisions you might never learn a life lesson. I used to go to church when I was a little tike. I stopped going when we finally moved out of town and onto a farm. I hated going to church but now that I think back on it, it was the highlight to my Sunday. We always made really cool things and every year on your birthday you go to pick a present out of the present box. When I look at my life the way it is now, there are a few things I would change but I think in general I’ am a fairly hard working down to earth girl. That would be the best trait about me. I try and live my life the way I want it to be and not the way other people intend it to be. I am also a fairly honest kid. If I did something wrong or tried something new I wasn’t intended to try I talk to my mom about it. The way I could use these traits for good would be to have kids and teach them to do around the same things as I have done and do onto people as I would wont onto me. So in general I think I could think of a few beautiful and good things in my life the way it is now, even though that question is fairly hard to answer. -Minni Kitty_
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