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Good life

englisheng — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:43:59 +0000

Its very hard trying to figure out something to write about “the good life” when this is the last blog. Everything has already been said. We’ve talked about people who come in and out of our lives, about things in the world that aren’t so good, some talk about what they think the good life is. As I look back at the beginning of the semester and I heard we had to write about the good life, I thought it was the worst idea ever. What 18 year old really knows what “the good life” is. But as I begain writing and searching things online, I realized there isn’t one good life that everyone needs to follow. Its all about what you think is good. For me I’ve realized that “the good life” means having friends and family around that I love and care about that love and care about me. It’s about doing well in college in order to create an even better life outside of college. It’s about doing whats right even when others think its wrong. Doing these blogs it has really made me open my eyes and stop thinking that everyones life is full of love, friendship, and money, because it’s not true at all. When you look at people it always seems like the ones that are truly happy are the ones with nothing, they learn to except everything they have and don’t take things for granted. But I feel like reading everyones idea of the good life and writing mine for weeks, everyone can truly say what the “good life” is for them.

Life in college

englisheng — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 01:52:01 +0000

With only one week left of classes, everything startes to become so real. When you enter college you feel like these four years are going to feel like a life time. But already the first semester is almost done. It feels like just yesterday I was moving into my dorm and the only thing I was nervous about was weither or not i was going to like my roommate. Now I’m getting ready to take my first college finals that I’ve always heard about when I was younger. About how hard they were and how stressed out I was going to feel. I used to thank God every day that i didn’t have to go through that and here it is. It’s scary realizing that it is going to be second semester of my freshman year and i still haven’t declared a major. It’s one of the scariest things I’v ever had to deal with. In less then four years I will be graduating from St. Rose and expected to find a career that i want to do for the rest of my life. I have no idea, last year the only thing people ever worried about was who they were taking to prom, or what they were wearing. Life is going by so fast everyday that goes by its just another day towards life on my own and a career I’m going to have to figure out.

Literary vs. ” the Good Life”

englisheng — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 15:12:21 +0000

“Despite recent damning critiques of the family–some literary, and some scientific in nature–I would contend that this is an institution without which we, as a society, cannot live. More, I would even go as far as to suggest that the family is (or, at least, can be) the main source of a truly “good life”.

– Kelly Meyer

Family. For some people its their whole world, for others it’s their bestfriends who they trust and care about. Family doesn’t always mean people that are literally related to you. Sometimes in families, things aren’t always what you want them to be. They fight, they yell, sometimes they may even beat eachother. Sometimes the only family someone has are the people that come into their lives later on in life. People that help them live and grow. When people think family, most of the time they think moms, dads, brothers, or sisters, but some people aren’t blessed with people that love them and care for them that others are. They need to go out and find their own family. Family is the source of “the good” life no matter who you believe is family they are the people that you want to be around, to love and to charish. Having a family is the best thing that can ever happen to people, they are there when you need them, leave you alone when you want them to, but they are also the ones that are there to tell you the truth. Whether you messed up horribly or did something amazing. They are always the ones that are there.

post for 10/5

englisheng — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 15:34:23 +0000

“The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.” Ivy Baker

Throughout life we are always trying to rush through things in order to make deadlines, or to get to the mall before the afternoon rush. We never sit down to look at life, take a breath and relax. For us, when we are done with sometime is feels like you accomplished something. But life is going to pass way to quickly if people don’t start slowing down and look at other things that are important in life. Our end should only be our beginning, we work and work through school to be able to get better jobs, to make more money, to have a family. But when your 90 looking back at your life, is all of this going to make you happy? Are you going to feel as if everything that you ever did in you life was worth it. Or could you have done more? Could you have slowed down and tried to look at like as something that is given you, not something that shoule be taken advantage of. People work so hard they don’t see the beauty in living anymore. All I know is that when i’m 90 looking back, i want to be able to look and say “I really did everything that I wanted to do, no questions asked” thats the way everyone should look at life. Stop worrying about whose better in class, or who makes more money. It’s about slowing down and finally see what you have.

Russell and the Good Life

englisheng — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:50:57 +0000

While searching the web I came across a quote by Bertrand Russell

The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Bertrand Russell

The good life doesn’t mean if you go to church and never sin that you are going to be happy. Instead the good life, is when you are happy. When the things in your life make you who you are. To never regret and to always let people in. The good life is not about what you think other people want you to do, it’s what you want to do and what make you feel like you are living the good life. As you walk around the streets, you rarely see people smiling anymore or even taking in life as they walk. They rush and complain. Life is too short to live like this. You need to take in every moment that God has given you to live. If you are happy, everything in your life will come so much easier for you. Life will be much more enjoyable and you will get more out of it. Live life for you not for the people around you, it’s the world your living not their’s.

College and the Good life

englisheng — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 02:48:38 +0000

Now that everyone is in college, people that were you best friends in highschool begin to drift away. As much as this may be a bad thing, it happens. Some people grow apart and some stay close. I have a few friends that I’ve known forever which I still talk to all the time. This weekend my bestfriend came home from Delaware, it’s so weird to hear the stories that he has to tell and realize, “wow he has other friends.” It’s kinda like a shock to realize how much people grow when they go away for a month or so. I feel like when I talk to people from highschool who went away to college I don’t know them anymore. I guess thats life though, we grow and we change. It’s nothing to dwell upon because it happens to everyone.

englisheng — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:52:53 +0000

Ever since my sister was fourteen, she was always named the trouble child. She started smoking, doing drugs, having sex and drinking all by the age of 15. As you can see my parents were never proud of her for anything she ever did. She tried to drop out of school at 16, she moved out with her 25 year old boyfriend at 17. My parents tried everything but there was only so much they could do. She was also the biggest hypochondriac anyone could meet. Her finger nail could hurt and she thought she was dying. So when the biggest shock of all came about 7 1/2 months ago, no one knew for sure if it was real or not. At the age of 21, my sister purposely got herself pregnant. Another reason for everyone to make a big deal over her. The only thing she ever wants in life is to get attention even if its in the wrong ways. I have never seen her so happy, but still in the back of my mind all i can think about is that poor baby. The life for that child won’t be what people call the “good life” as much as my parents are going to help her there is only so much they can do. Its up to her as a parent to support and love that baby. Now that i look at it, you never know what life is going to throw at you. For her it was a baby, maybe this will change her around, but for others it could have been drugs and alcohol. For her she is living the good life, for other people at 21 they would never think of having such a huge responsibility.

Pleasantville

englisheng — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 18:55:57 +0000

While watching Pleasantville by Gary Ross it showed how life was protrayed in the 1950′s. While watching this movie, I thought about how life must have been like back then. Everyone knew everyone, people were very polite and nieve, life was just simple. As the movie went on it showed the change between both worlds, the 1950′s world and the world today. As things changed people started to become upset about life was being lived. Girls were reading books, wives did more then just sit at home to cook and clean for their husbands. Some people thought of it like their worlds crashing down. But isn’t this whats supposed to happen? The world changing for the better. Or was life intended to stay the perfect place, where there was no violence of any type?

Watching this movie made me glad that I never lived in a life like that. Everything was always the same, people were way to nice. Nowadays, theres varity not everything has to be the same. Life today is so much more entertaining then it was in Pleasantville. Everything needs change in their lives, and by the end of Pleasentville people started excepting the change. Thats how life is supposed to be.

Essay

englisheng — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 00:27:36 +0000

Last Thursday when I was writing my essay about an event and/or series of events that have occurred in my life. It took we me awhile to figure out the exact way to go about writing this paper or what to write about. After awhile I started to write about my little cousin who died about eight years ago. It was probably the hardest essay I have ever had to write, not because of way the essay should have been written but the things that i had to remember after such a long time of shutting it out. While writing this paper I started connenting it to the Good Life, through out the whole thing i spoke about the pain and suffering my Aunt and Uncle had/ still feel today. I remember my Uncle telling me that having to live on after such a terrible event must maked him wake up everyday wishing he didn’t have to live anymore. Watching him suffer so much for the lose of his child, made me start to look at life differently. To bascially live everyday to the fullest.

Gossip Girls- The good life

englisheng — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 01:26:36 +0000

When thinking of the good life, I think of being rich always getting exactly what I what whenever I want it. For me thats impossible, but in the books Gossip Girls, they seem to have everything. The beautiful house, more money then anyone would ever even dream of having. But behind the scenes masked with all of this, they are extremely unhappy with the way everything is working out in their lives. Most of their parents are alcoholics, who are never around. They have been drinking since the age of 14 with no one to tell them not to. While looking at these people you start to realize that its not about the money you have or the house u live in its the family and friends you have around you. If you don’t have that then you have nothing. Theres no point in being about to buy anything because in the end you can’t buy happiness or love. This really opened my eyes and made me thankful for everything and everyone i have in my life. Im not so worried about material things anymore.