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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

~Leonardo da Vinci
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Brandon Foster
English I CP/3rd
Thurston
2/7/08

“A life without a cause is a life without effect.” - Unknown

Living your life is important. Maintaining happiness, health, and organization can
be tough. Without living your life to its fullest you have no true purpose of being alive.
Being happy maintains your mental state and allows motivation to better your life.
Health keeps you alive, it is the most important topic I will discuss. Health helps self-esteem. Organization helps you keep these two principles together.

Without organization life would be chaos, nothing would be accomplished without being torn apart, and truth would never be spoken. To have organization is to have control over your life. Having control over your life in at least one way helps you balance how you live. Living is important, and organization makes living a little bit easier. In sixth grade I entered middle school. The feeling in my stomach made me feel excited and sick all at once. Sixth grade had new people, a new school, and a new level of work. With this challenge brought new obstacles. I felt driven to be organized, because it was what I was good at. Math was not best class, nor was history or English.

The only thing I had done well in middle school was organization. I had the most organized locker anyone had seen. My binders were organized into tabs, and my daily agenda was completed. Organization helped me stop worrying about remembering the right books, and let me worry about problems that were personal, such as health and chores.

Health keeps you alive. It helps your heart pump blood the rest of your body, and keep the rest of your organs running and ready. Terrible health prevents one from fully living. Ignoring your body’s needs is becoming a quickly growing epidemic. Taking care of your body is something people might not understand. As you age you learn how your body works and what it can withstand. We often ignore symptoms which lead to bad health. Health can mean a few things to different people. To me it means taking care of your body. To my mother it is taking care of mind, spirit, and body.

Happiness helps you live your life how you want; allowing the freedom to dream and escape reality. Happiness is what everyone wants, but few actually get. To be happy is defined as “an emotional or affective state that is characterized by feelings of enjoyment and satisfaction”. Enjoyment is brought through self esteem and through friendship. You should surround your self with friends that support you in times of need and like you for who you are. They make you feel good about yourself. This helps your self-esteem and creates a state of happiness. Happiness breaks the barriers of fear down to let you live your life. Living your life to its fullest is to make your life worth something.
Whether your life’s purpose is for something, someone, or just yourself, it affects those around you. You affect the world around you by living in state of happiness, staying organized, and healthy. A life with purpose is truly worth living.
this is the unedited version:Brandon Foster
English I CP/3rd
Thurston
2/7/08

“A life without a cause is a life without effect.” - Unknown

Living your life is important. Maintaining happiness, health, and organization can

be tough. Without living your life to its fullest you have no true purpose of being alive.

Being happy maintains your mental state and allows motivation to better your life.

Health simply keeps you alive and helps self esteem about yourself. Organization helps

you keep these two principles together.

Without organization life would be chaos, nothing would be accomplished

without being torn apart, and truth would never be spoken. To have organization is to

have control over your life. Having control over your life in at least one way helps you

balance how you live. Living is important, and organization makes living a little bit

easier. In sixth grade I entered middle school. The feeling in my stomach made me feel

excited and sick all at once. It was new people, new school, and a new level of work.

With the challenged brought by this new obstacle I felt driven to be organized, because it

was what I was good at. Math was not best class, nor was history or English. The only

thing I had done well in middle school was organization. I had the most organized locker

anyone had seen. Each of my binders was organized into tabs, and my agenda was

written in daily. Organization helped me stop worrying about remembering the right

books, and let me worry about problems that were personal, such as health and chores.

One of the most important subjects I will bring up is health. Out of everything I

discuss, this is certainly the most significant. Health keeps you alive. It helps your heart

pump blood the rest of your body, and keep the rest of your organs running and ready.

Terrible health means you are close disallowing yourself to live. Taking care of your

body is something people might not understand. It is an odd curiosity for ones self to

explore what the human body is capable of. This oddity can lead people out of looking

into what your body is in need of, which leads to bad health. Health can mean a few

things to different people. To me it means taking care of your body. To my mother it is

taking care of your self in mind, spirit, and body.

Happiness lets you live your life to how you want. Allowing the freedom to

dream and escape reality. Happiness is what everyone wants, but few actually get. To be

happy is defined as “an emotional or affective state that is characterized by feelings of

enjoyment and satisfaction”. Enjoyment is brought through self esteem and through

friends. Friends are people who are around you, like you for whom you are, and are there

for you in times of need. They make you feel good about yourself. This helps your self

esteem and allows you to be happy. Happiness breaks the barriers down to let you live

your life. Living your life to the full effect is to make your life worth something.

Whether your life’s worth is for someone else, or just yourself. It allows you be

satisfied and finally have an effect.

With happiness, organization, and health life can have a greater effect. A life

with an effect is truly a life to be lived. The organization skills may be tough to acquire

and finally keep. Health can be an annoyance and takes time out of your life. Happiness

may take an entire life time to claim as yours. In all these things make a life worth

having.



Enjoy

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  • User Comments: [2]
    well-written

    comment Purple Spider19 · Community Member · Wed Feb 13, 2008 @ 06:46pm
    When the world ends...


    Thank you! This is the crappy version, I will put up the revised version soon.

    ... I will still be singing my song.


    comment Wraith_92 · Community Member · Thu Feb 14, 2008 @ 12:50am
    User Comments: [2]

     
     
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