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Timothy  Giral

Blog number 4

      In high school I was the type to not want to be at school. But, when I wasn’t in school I was working in a Laundromat which was my first job ever. I was the type to rather make money then to go to school for no reason. When you are young a lot of people just want to have fun. And that’s what I thought I was doing “HAVING FUN”. When in all reality I was hurting myself.

   Having a job that you aren’t satisfied with can really affect your happiness. My job at the Laundromat was a really bad place to work at. I had a lot of responsibilities and such little pay. My manager treated me like a puppy dog. I was working there for a year and not attending school. Until I said to myself “timothy what are you doing?” and I answered. “I honestly don’t know.” I made a goal to go back to school and graduate. That was my best chose in life ever.

    Now I feel that I have all the power to gain a job that I will be very happy with. I feel that if you have job like the one I did, and you honestly feel that you are too good for that job it will affect your happiness. Because you can become depressed and let your feelings affect your everyday life. In time these feelings will grow and get worst. In doing so you will become miserable with yourself and never go for achieving your full potential.

  I never want to become a person who is not satisfied with his or hers life. That is why I quit my job at the Laundromat and got a new one. I am not truly happy with this job but I do need money to get me through college. And I am very happy to say that I am going to become something ,even though I do not know what yet. I know I’m going to be happy with what I choose to become.

what can i do?

Timothy  Giral

ENGLISH PAPER 1

   Many times I find myself asking the same questions over and over again. “How can I make my college Experience the best time in my life? Is college really going to make me happy? And, how can I work on making myself happier by furthering my education?” These questions run through my mind constantly. These thoughts are a part of how I can put all my skills and knowledge to better my experience in school and also become a happier person with gaining an education.

     What I have realized is that I have already accomplished a big goal in my life that not a lot of people haven’t and that’s graduating high school. Now I have a greater goal on my plate and that’s college. I feel that the only way I can make it a happy experience is by opening up to what my school has to offer me. Right now I am in my transitioning phase of college. I am trying to get use to my surroundings and get into college Life.  I am a very social person but noticed that you can’t always try to make friends because that’s how you get caught up. But I feel that it is on me to separate my school life with my personal life. In order to happily get through college and not be miserable the whole time one must figure out what they want to do and take it one step at a time.

    In order to better my education I must set certain goals and keep to these goals. I never really was the type to set goals and actually go through with them. But, what I have realized is that I must join all my strengths to see what goals I can set to better myself in my educational career . In viewing all these text and videos and listing to my teacher talk about happiness I have recently set a couple of goals to achieve happiness in education. These goals are 1. Be able to be confident in passing all my courses. 2. Always be ready to do something regarding school work .3. And don’t allow my negative feelings get into the way of me gaining happiness in my success in education. All these goals I feel are easy to achieve I chose these goals as my first steps in becoming successful in college. But I also have my flaws.

    I must first realize that I have never fully understood how I can accomplish all my goals. There are many things that I must correct in order to be at peace with my education. I must first stop letting myself get discouraged when I mess up. Stop listing to people that try to bring me down and allow myself to grow in my educational career. Also stop reacting thing in ways I shouldn’t react in when I am under pressure like how in the article “the futile pursuit of happiness “ that talks about hot states and cold states. When I am under pressure I tend to react differently towards certain situations than I would if I was not under pressure which is reacting in a hot state .A hot state meaning acting when not in a calm state of mind. Reacting in a cold state means being more calm and collective with yourself. I tend to have more hot states then cold but I must learn how to deal with hot states like I would if I was in a cold state in order to become more open to my opportunities in life.

    In order for me to become happy I must find what is right for me. Honestly speaking I really do not know what I must become to be happy just yet. However, I do know what I must do in order to be something that will satisfy my goals in happiness. I must do everything I can now. Such as build up my education so when it comes time to decide what I must become to be happy that I am actually able to do it. I must first stick with continuing my education. Explore and learn about different things I might be interested in. Also keep a positive outlook on life regardless of all the negative energy around me. Becoming a happy person isn’t the easiest thing to accomplish because of the simple fact that we can’t truly say what will make us happy until we are actually happy. My question is how can we know for sure that what we are doing in school is the right path to happiness? There are people with degrees that aren’t even happy. So do I really need an education to be happy? NO I don’t . but it does feel good to know I have accomplished something that few do accomplished and that might give me a better outlook on life.

   In the end I hope that I can look back at my life and say that I have lived a good life and worked hard on my education so that one day I can have a great job because of it. Also to see how I got see how I come out of all the challenges life throws my way. I can’t even imagine were my path lies. I never want to be disappointed in myself and I must never give up on my goals in pursuing my education. And I hope that my English 101 class can actually help me figure out what path I am going to choose to be happy.

    

BLOG NUMBER 2

ENGLISH 101-BLOG NUMBER TWO

                   Have you ever asked yourself “What am I going to do with my life?” or “How am I going to accomplish it?” I know I ask myself that every day. I wonder what my life is destined to become and the challenges life has in store for me. I really can’t say how I would go about handling what life throws at me. And I actually look forward to the outcome of these challenges. One thing I know is that this is the time in my life where I begin building the foundation of my life.

            In the present time I see that my decisions now are going to affect me in the future. I currently graduated High school and I feel that is a very big achievement because not many people actually do that. But see it doesn’t end there that was just a starter. See, I view life as if I am eating at a restaurant like the Olive Garden. You have an appetizer, which is what I have done so far (elementary school, junior high, and high school) now it’s time for the main course. “ the most important time in your life. For me this means furthering my education, and planting my roots in this world. Also finding out what I’m going to do with my life. At this current moment I can’t really share with everyone what I’m going to do because I don’t even know myself. But for now I’m going to college and I’m studying business. Looking forward for my dessert, which can be the type of dessert I wish I never ordered or the dessert that satisfies me and I enjoy. For those who don’t really get metaphors I mean retirement and being happy with my self and of course I am not perfect and I have a lot to work on to become happy.

      I feel like a lot of things that are going on in my life is affecting my happiness. In a bad way because a lot of people around me bring me down and make me feel  like it is imposable for me to achieve my goals. But I see it as a motivation to prove everyone wrong. And I feel that with out all this pain and struggle one cant truly have happiness in there lives. My biggest problem is that I care to much what people think about me. And I know that I have a lot of growing up to do. But once I learn how to not take peoples opinion on me so seriously and gain maturity I will be able to achieve happiness. Another problem with me is that I tend to get scared of the future and feel that certain things that might happen will hurt me so much. Like in the article “ Futile pursuit of happiness by  Jon Gertner ‘’ where he shows the idea of forcasting. George Loewenstien states that forcasting is when a person thinks about the future and the outcome of certain events and how they would be affected by it. In my case I let my thoughts get in the way of me being happy. Just like he explained in the article. And I know that I shouldn’t let it get to me.

 I have a lot I must work on before I can actually become happy. Everything comes down to my decisions I make right now . At this point I do not regret any decisions I have made in my life. I know I have all the opportunity to be happy. I just have to work on a lot of things like making sure I pass English 101 for instance. To me that’s a start and all the rest will come in time.