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Did you know the spirit bear is also known as a Kermode bear? I didn't, as a matter of fact, I didn't even know there was a white bear beside polar bears until I read touching spirit bear? In the book Cole learned four life lessons. Throughout this paper, I will talk about three life lessons that I have learned. In addition, I will explain why they are important to me. My first life lesson is “ Everything happens for a reason”. The symbol is a fire burning, bright, scolding to the touch, and full of colors with small strips of blue showing the hotspots. I learned this life lesson from my sister when she fell into a burning fire pit in 2015. It was horrific at the time and it still is, but I realized when she laid by me so tired and sleepy from playing all day not taking a second thought about anything she does. That she is who she is because of that. If that major event would have never happened to her, she wouldn't be who she is, she wouldn't take chances, and she would live in fear, taking second thoughts about everything. Beside my first lesson there is a second, “You don't realize what you have till it's gone”. I learned this when we started this project. I was sitting in SI thinking to myself what are some life lessons I have learned, i thought of this one, i thought “but what have I gone through that I missed out on”, my …show more content…
I have spent so much of my time and my life trying to be like everyone else and i know am not the only one because we are all guilty of it. I used a crown to symbolize this life lesson because there is only one queen of england and no one can be just like her. Like i am my own self, for example if we all wore crowns to school everyday in elementary they would all be different, but if we did that now and saw two crowns alike we would think we all need to have that crown but we don't, we need to stop and start wearing our own crown again and own

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