The "Tortoise and the Hare"

Author's Note: The tortoise and the hare is a classic. Almost everybody has heard it. I wrote a response to this story because the message is true.

     I'm pretty sure most of you have heard the story "the tortoise and the hare". It's a classic. Well the moral of the story for me is to never underestimate one another's powers. The hare was so sure of himself.  For sure he doubted the tortoise. Doing that was wrong. You never 100 percent know what everyone else is capable of. Well you don’t 100 percent sure of what you, yourself is even capable of. So never doubt anybody else even if 99 percent sure you can't do something. That 1 percent might mean they can.

"True Colors"

  Author's Note:  When I first heard this song I really liked it. The message it send out is true. I wrote about this because I think everyone should be happy with themselves. 

"You with the sad eyes

Don't be discouraged

Oh I realize

Its hard to take courage

In a world full of people

You can lose sight of it all

And the darkness inside you

Can make you feel so small

But I see your true colors

Shining through

I see your true colors

And that's why I love you

So don't be afraid to let them show

Your true colors

True colors are beautiful,

Like a rainbow

Show me a smile then,

Don't be unhappy, can't remember

When I last saw you laughing

If this world makes you crazy

And you've taken all you can bear

You call me up

Because you know I'll be there

And I'll see your true colors

Shining through

I see your true colors

And that's why I love you

So don't be afraid to let them show

Your true colors

True colors are beautiful,

Like a rainbow

(When I last saw you laughing)

If this world makes you crazy

And you've taken all you can bear

You call me up

Because you know I'll be there

And I'll see your true colors

Shining through

I see your true colors

And that's why I love you

So don't be afraid to let them show

Your true colors"               

      

    By Cindy Lauper

   

 When I first heard this song on my favorite show "Glee" song by Cindy Lauper, I was kind of amazed. I felt like they were sending the message that for who you truly are is incredible. Everybody is different and that's okay because different is good. A lot of people (I admit to being a victim of) hold back. They're sometimes afraid to show people who they really are. Not everybody is accepting as other people but my opinion is that you shouldn’t hold back because when you hold back from being happy, mad, sad or just yourself your acting. Your putting on an act to be a flawless and perfect person. Well at least that's what I try to do. So moral of the story, don't hold back. Be yourself.

 

                              

                      

            

A Not So Perfect Life

          Author's Note: Almost everybody that they could have a stress-free perfect life. Though, it always seems as if our lives are completely the opposite of that. In my response to a quote you'll see  that a not so perfect life wouldn't be terrible.

                             

           "Being happy doesn’t mean everything is perfect, it means  you’ve decided to see beyond the imperfections and except your life as it is". This quote stood out to me in a very special way. It's probably because I can make a personal connection to it. I always thought my life wasn't as good as it could be and I always wanted something better. That would mean that I wanted everything the way I wanted and that I had everything that I wanted. That would be a perfect life right? Well if you take everything in life and compare it to perfection, that certain thing would loose. Nothing, not one single thing in life is perfect. It's human nature to have flaws, if you or your life didn’t have flaws well you wouldn’t  be truly "human". Everyone dreams of just living in Hawaii and going to the beach everyday. Then again those are dreams. Think about it, if you lived every single day on the beach and had no chaotic stress in your life it would be pretty boring. Stress isn't the most fun thing but it gets your adrenalin racing and it gets you thinking that it's just your human flaws acting up again. So when you get to those stressful moments and you want everything to be perfect you have to realize that a perfect life would be your dreams and dreams are fun for a little while but eventually they get boring.  You wouldn’t  have anything to deal with or confront. So excepting your life is the only chance we have as humans. Once you except your life things will fall in to place and it will turn out to actually be a dream. But it will be a dream. But a realistic one,  not a fantasy dream.

A Silver Bracelet that Goes A Long Way

 Author's note: This is my point of view creative story . I wrote about my silver charm bracelet with my birth stone in it  because it is my favorite gift that I received for Christmas.

It’s October 25th and I'm sitting in a large dark and cold room.  My sterling silver links shimmer every time I move. I have two silver hearts hanging off of me clinking together. Yes, I am a charm bracelet. A silver polished charmless charm bracelet. I am being brought to the jewelers tomorrow to have something engraved in me, whatever that means. I have 11 brothers and sisters along with me. All the same silver bracelets. Soon we will be able to be told apart, thanks to the 11 other birthstones.  They transported us in cardboard boxes to something I believe is called a truck. They're unloading each one of us. I think we are at the jewelers. They are placing me down on a cold marble counter. In one of my silver hearts they are placing a precious alexandrite gem stone in me. Whoever my future owner is must have been born in June. After the gem placing I am being shipped to Brookfield, Wisconsin. I'm from New York so its going to be a long car ride. After 13 hours of riding in the truck we finally arrive in that place called Wisconsin. I can't see but I can hear a bunch of people talking and laughing and one of m sisters tell me it's a mall. We are at this place called things remembered. One of the workers is now placing me and all of my brother's and sister's on a soft satin shelf. Its mid afternoon and dozens of people have  tried me on and even contemplated buying me! I  have been here for a month and 2 of my brothers and 1 of my sisters and I are still left. My brother tells me that its going to be triple busy because it is Christmas season. One lady walks in and starts to bring me to the front of the store. She might buy me. I'm being scanned and wrapped . The cashier woman says that it is a buy 1 get 1 free so this lady goes and grabs my sister. My sister and I ride home in fright wondering where we are going and what these people are doing with us. Once we enter a mysterious place we smell a somewhat reassuring  scent of vanilla and cinnamon. We must be at this owners home. Once again I here talking and laughing and dogs barking.  This brunette lady takes me out of my box and starts to wrap me in yet another wrapping paper. This time the wrapper has snowflakes and decorated Christmas trees plastered all over it. Now its December 23 and I am being brought to another loud transportation device. I can't remember the name but it was something like a car.

Yeah it was a car. This time the drive was even longer than going from New York to Wisconsin. Once we arrived at a  not so much mysterious place(I'm assuming it's another house)I think I heard somebody say it's Christmas Eve. I haven't  quite figured out what that means but I'm getting to think it's some holiday that people celebrate that involves lots of red and green. Somebody placed me and a lot of other holiday wrapped rectangular boxes underneath a tree that is shedding green spiky things. It must be Christmas morning because the gifts around me are saying that it is a tradition for people to open present on this day. I am being unwrapped and it seems like my owner loves me. I was linked onto her lavender scented wrist and forever may it stay that way.