Preview

Somewhere Over The rainbow

Better Essays
Open Document
Open Document
554 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
Somewhere Over The rainbow
Today is not just a new day. Everyday I always ponder and wonder about a lot of things. Sometimes I think about yesterday and wonder if today will be a lot better than yesterday. Let me just share to you what I’ve thought of...

I've thought of many names, and not all of them are pleasant. I am many things, but not all of them are good. Or so some of the mundane flocks might think. But I am who and what I am, and I have a duty to myself.

Looking back to those years past I could almost smile. When they say ignorance is bliss, they joke not. When I was younger I would play with friends or go for walks in the park. I was a good kid, with a good life. I took up the old ways because I felt such a strong connection to nature, and to my surroundings. I always got teased for being different, for the fact that no one understood me, or they feared me. Perhaps it was both, but for whatever reasons, I was not one to hold a grudge. I liked to help people, those who were not Takers. But as a whole I despised being human, reformed to such a weak frame. I had always dreamed in play that I was something else, something more, but never totally human. As is the way of a child, is it not? But now as I speak with experience, I go on asking too many questions, and it struck me when i come across this poem which I like to share to all of. Because it awakened me and somehow I felt something differently.

I Asked...

I asked God to take away my pride.
God said "No. It is not for me to take away, but for you to give it up." I asked God to make the handicapped child whole.
God said. "No. Her spirit is whole, her body was only temporary."

I asked God to grant me patience.
God said "No. Patience is a byproduct of tribulations; it isn't granted, it is earned."

I asked God to give me happiness.
God said "No. I give you blessings, happiness is up to you."

I asked God to spare my pain.
God said "No. Sufferings draw you apart from worldly cares

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Good Essays

    After school, my best friend Marc and I we found ourselves at home to listen to the episode of Pokemon playing at 3:30. We always went to my house because her mother was depressed. My mother was tired of always having at home and so after the episode is going to play out. Playing outside was rather playing game-boy advance under the trees in my yard! I had Fire Red and Leaf Green him, the brother Marc had erased his game so we enjoyed making special team or finding secrets with his game instead of collecting badges.…

    • 967 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    And God said unto him, because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for…

    • 892 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Don John Foil

    • 484 Words
    • 2 Pages

    “The lady is unfaithful.” In much Ado about nothing, by William Shakespeare After a harsh war, Don Pedro, Claudio, Benedick return from war. While in Messina Claudio Falls in love with the governor's daughter Hero. While everyone is happy, Don John is Voracious for power, he creates a paradox between Hero and Claudio, and to compound that Don John tries to escape Messina. Eventually Hero and Claudio is married and everything is good. In Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare, Don John serves as the foil character by which Don Pedro’s eminent reputation are Illuminated through Don John’s combatant actions; thus, perpetually influencing the resolution of the plot.…

    • 484 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Christians are to have the right heart attitude when God allows trials in their lives. It is, however, very easy to respond in ways saying, “This is so unfair” and “Why me?!” But the Bible calls them to respond in a different way. The Biblical response to struggles is, “…[to] rejoice in our sufferings…” (Romans 5:3-4). Then James 1:2-4 says, "Count it all joy." Finally 1 Peter 1:3-7 goes on to say "In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, so that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though fire tests it—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.” Christians are to respond with a proper heart attitude towards God knowing that God is teaching them and growing…

    • 997 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Welcome, today I will be speaking about the concept of belonging and how it is represented in the two texts Rainbows End by Jane Harrison and Beneath the Clouds by Ivan Sen.…

    • 1149 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Andrew Carnegie

    • 449 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Andrew Carnige is one of the most important historical figures in america. For many reasons including his wealth. He's know for his numerous donations to society such as the carnigie music hall, caringeie melon university and many libriaes across the country. But just because a man donated most of his wealth to charities that benefited the well off? No Andrew carnage used numours dirty tatics to undercut competitors and treated employees like slaves.…

    • 449 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    None of us were put on this earth to be alone and other people in our lives play a big part of our well-being. This could include church, a group fitness center, a twelve step group, a gardening club, a book club, a free class at a college. If none of the activities I have listed interest you, I encourage you to stop the next person you see and ask them for some ideas.…

    • 661 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    If you go by the obvious answer, then of course I know who I am. I have a name, so that’s who I am. But in another definition, I am the best of my parents combined genes. And in another definition, I am who I chose to spend my time with. An in another, I am who I choose to listen to. And in another I am this…and in another I am that…and in another…and in another……

    • 310 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    The summer that I was seven, I spent most of my time playing backyard games with my brother and our neighbors. They were all at least three years older than me and I was the only girl, but I had lots of fun, and in my second grade mind it made me feel cool since they were big fifth-graders.…

    • 513 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    “ You need to be superb in every way because no one will know the true you.” Even if you know you you are truly, your identity will spread. Everywhere and do you know why? Well, it’s…

    • 728 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    participate in one sport or another. As it is now, it was back then, a great way to spend time with…

    • 767 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    This Side of Paradise

    • 560 Words
    • 3 Pages

    I read F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise. I enjoyed reading this book and would recommend this book to other people. There was one main character throughout this novel. The main characters name was Amory Blaine. Amory Blaine was a very attractive man who was truly in love with himself. Blaine fell in love with several women throughout the book. He truly falls in love with a woman named Rosalind who eventually ends up breaking his heart by marrying someone far richer than himself. With that happening Amory Blaine turns into more of a player. Amory attends a boarding school in the beginning of the novel and then he attends Princeton. Amory Blaine eventually gets a job in New York advertising but in the end he loses his friends and almost everything.…

    • 560 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Spiritual Autobiography

    • 639 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Fast forward a few years when the Lord had intervened in my life because He could see that it was going downhill at a rather fast pace. I was in jail facing 28 years in prison because I had received a money order from my representative payee that handled my money received from serving in the Army. I took the money order into a local store and attempted to cash it. I was not aware that it would turn out to be a fake money order. I requested to speak to the chaplain at the jail and asked for help to get me right with the Lord I once knew.…

    • 639 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Ralph Waldo Emerson once said “To be yourself in a world that is trying to make you something else is a great accomplishment”. A question such as “who am I”? Really gives me the opportunity to differentiate and express who I really am and who I can be. I am not a complex person who thinks the world is against me, nor am I overly sophisticated “know-it-all” who doesn't take time to pay attention to my surroundings. I can't say that I am like every other person because there are certain things that make me a unique individual. What I can say is that I am progressing towards a brighter future.…

    • 828 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Everyone has their own individual identity, but not everyone accepts who they truly are. Many feel the urge to change who they are to fit society’s expectations; to feel included, to be included. I, myself am a victim of such conformity. Abandoning my culture, my beliefs to foolishly chase “that someone” that I know will never be me. So today, I shall pour my deepest thoughts and regrets onto this flimsy sheet of paper and hopefully this will inspire future individuals to be proud of whom they are and avoid the trap of conformity.…

    • 605 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays