#13 define success

       
 
      In my opinion, the best definition of word “success” from dictionary.com is the accomplishment one’s goals. When I was young, I used to think that “success” simply means a lot of money. I thought if someone is a rich, that person is living in a successful life. However, now I don’t think money is all that gives people success. Now I think that success has to deal with everything that satisfies people’s hope.

For example, even if a person is a rich guy and living in a huge, fancy mansion, it doesn’t mean success if that person is lonely because they don’t have family. Emotional satisfaction also has to be achieved in order to have a successful life. Emotional satisfaction plays important role for humans to work effectively and achieve what they want. People who are emotionally sad cannot concentrate or focus on what they have to do and thus it lowers the efficiency.

           Also, health is also important. Healthy body is needed for almost everything. For example, we have to be healthy in order to be able to eat anything we want to. If we are sick, there will be so many limitations of what we can do to make our life happy and successful. A life spending most of time in hospital cannot be a successful life unless that person really enjoys it. Most of the people feel sad about disease they have and that can lead to serious metal problem of depression. Thus, health can determine both of emotional satisfaction and economic success.

           Sometimes people still feel happy even if they are poor. If a person satisfies everything about his/her life and appreciates whatever he/she has now, that person’s life is considered to be a successful life. People do not have to rich in order to achieve success. Some people still demand that money is everything, but that is wrong. Of course, economic ability is really vital for people to do what they want and satisfy their need. However, richness does not directly mean success. There are so many rich people who are not happy about their life and so many people who are completely happy about their life even though they are poor.

           It depends on people to define success, but generally when a person is living in a happy, satisfied life, it can be considered as success. Everyone has to work hard and try hard to be successful. Sometimes other people can help people who seek for success, but most of the success is achieved by their own work. It can be said ridiculous to want other people to achieve successful life for them. Thus, people should work as hard as they can in order to achieve their goals and be living in a successful life.

# 12 bucket list

       Bucket list is defined as a list of things to do before you die and it came from the term “kicked the bucket” in urbandictionary.com. I have not thought about my bucket list yet, but today’s prompt is about my bucket list so I brought up several things that can be in my bucket list and should be done before I die.

           The very first thing of my bucket list is to design my own bed. Bed is one of my favorite things and I really want to make one someday. I want to make a bed that cover 3 sides and half of one side surround me. I feel cozy and comfortable when I am surrounded by something, so I want to make a 3 and a half walled bed that would make me sleep well and deeply in a comfy place. I also have second design for my dream bed. The second design is a bed that is hanging down from the ceiling. I want to put 4 strong ropes on the bed and make the bed float in the air. It would give me feelings of that I’m flying while I’m sleeping. I would definitely make my own bed when I become an adult and have my own home.

           Second thing of my bucket list is to do bungee jumping. I did not decide where to do it, but I really want try bungee jumping someday. 3 years ago, I saw two of my cousins doing bungee jumping. They wanted me to do it together, but I was so afraid of it and I didn’t do it. I regretted so much that I didn’t do it together with my cousin after they talked about how the bungee jumping was. So, I decided to do it someday when I am ready. My cousins did it in Korea, and they said everything looked beautiful while they were doing the bungee when actually the view wasn’t quite good. I want to go to other country that has the nicest view in the world and do the bungee jumping. I want to do it before I become 30 years old because I should not be old to do bungee because it would be dangerous.

           Finally, the last thing of my bucket list is to work for endangered animals. My favorite animal is sea otter. One day, I saw an article about sea otters that people think that sea otters love people and that is why they break the shells and give it to people. However, the truth was that the sea otters give shells to show that they are giving their favorite thing to people and they want them not to hunt sea otters. So, they are like “I will give you this, so please don’t take me away from my family.” That hurt my feelings so badly and I felt really sorry about many endangered animals. Also, harp seals, the cutest creatures ever, are seriously endangered from overhunting for their white, soft fur. It is so sad that harp seals were originally friendly animals that love people, but after people began hunt many of them, harp seals became to be afraid of people. Now, I can’t really help people who work for endangered animals because I am a high school student. I’ll help animals when I become an adult and have stable life so that I have time to help them seriously. 

#11 SUPER POWER

                 

 
After I watched movie “click,” I thought that it would be awesome if I have time-control ability. In the movie, the guy has remote control that can control the time. He could stop the time and do something bad to someone who he hates and he could also go back to past or go to future. He even could make the time go faster. It was so interesting while I was watching movie and that I really wanted that remote control. If I can have a superpower, I really want to have ability to control the time whenever I want.

           There would be so many benefits if I can control the time. First of all, I can help people I love. If one of my family member had car accident, I can easily go back to past and tell him/her how to avoid the accident. Also, If earthquake or tsunami comes, I can also go back to past again and make my family and friends go other place for safety.

           Secondly, there are so many good things for myself if I can handle time. It can be said cheating, but I can take the test first, memorize every question, go back to past, and take the test again. Also, If I do something wrong or make mistake, I can just easily go back before I did something wrong, and make it right. Whenever I do something that I hate, I can make time go faster and make it done very quickly. On the other hand, whenever I do something that I love so much, I can stop the time and do it until whenever I don’t want to do it anymore. Stopping time is good to do something to people that I hate. If I hate someone, I can stop the time and hit him/her as hard as I can, run away, and then make the time go again. Then that person would never know why he/she feel hurt somewhere.

           Finally, if I can control the time, I can experience culture of variety time periods. I really want to go back to middle age and see people in dress and weird wigs. I can be one of the people in that period and watch how they are different from present-days people. Also, I really want to know how the world looks like in the future. The best thing that I want to know in the future is what I become in the future and my future husband. I am so curious about what I will be when I am an adult and who I meet to be my husband.

           In the end of the movie, the guy throws his remote control away because he realized to thank every circumstance that is given to him. I also like my life just the way it is now, but my life would be much easier and happier If I have superpower to control the time whenever I want.

 

Cell phone usage at school

SIS also does not allow students to use cell phones just as most of the other schools. Schools do not allow cell phone usage for students because cell phone distracts students during the lecture and also, it disrupts the whole class. However, students constantly demand permit for cell phone usage saying that there are some situations that they have to use cell phones at school.

I strongly agree to allow students to use cell phones at school under certain circumstances.  For example, students have to use phone in order to call their parents if practice for volleyball is canceled.  Also, students should be able to call their parents when they are sick and need to go to home.  Schools say that they don’t necessarily have to allow cell phone usage at school for those circumstances because students can use school phone.  However, it would save money for school to just allow students to use their own cell phones instead of making them use school phone.

     It is definitely bad thing if a student uses cell phone during class. However, using cell phones during class can be preserved by giving students detention or punishment.  Schools do not have to ban cell phone usage for whole school time because if they tell students to not to use cell phones during class or they will get detentions or punishments, students would not use cell phones during class. Even though they use it during class, the students who used the phones will be the ones who would get educational disadvantage from that, so schools do not have to not allow other students who work hard during class for cell phone usage.

     Other reason that school should allow cell phone usage is that smart phones are sometimes advantageous for academic reason. Whenever students’ laptops do not connect to school’s internet, students can use smart phones’ internet because some students can us 3G or 4G. Also, there are lots of apps that are educationally helpful that students can use for class. For example, there is an app that shows human body parts and functions. That app helped me a lot when I was taking Biology class, especially human anatomy class, at school because that app had some kind of quizzes that I can check what I didn’t know and what I completely understood.

      

 
There are lots of schools that allow students to use laptops at schools but not cell phones. I personally think that this is ridiculous. This does not make sense at all for me because anything that students can do on the phone also can be done on laptop. Laptops can be worse because there are some programs that hide previous page that a person was looking at immediately when they want to. For example, even though a student was playing games during class, that student can easily hide that page when teacher is coming to him/her with one button and lie that he/she was doing research paper. On the other hand, teachers can easily see what students did on their phone because it is hard to erase history of what they did on with their phone quickly. Thus, teachers can check what students have done on their phone if they are suspicious about it.

          

3 things that will make your life perfect

           People have their own priorities. Some people say that reputation is the most important thing to have flawless life. On the other hand, people who work for poor people say that people should have generosity to have perfect life. In my opinion, health, love, and money are the most important thing for life. I think these three things would make my life perfect.

           First of all, Health is important for perfect life because health is the most basic thing for human. I should be healthy to enjoy something that I have. In other words, even if I am a millionaire and I got everything I want, I won’t be able to be happy if I am sick. If I am very sick to death, I won’t be able to have any happiness from my life. Also, I should be healthy in order to make other people who love me happy. I think perfect life has to be perfect for other people who I love and who love me. People who love me will not be happy if I am not healthy. I f I am very sick, people who love me will be living in sad days. I don’t think I will not have perfect life with making my lovers fall into sadness.

           Secondly, love is also vital to live in happy life. I don’t mean just husband and wife. I also mean love between parents and their children or love between siblings. I believe that people should have someone to love in order to live in satisfied life. Without lovers, life would be miserable and unemotional. Having someone to love is a grateful thing because it would bring people brightness and happiness. Everyone laughs and smiles when they are with their lovers. Smile and laugh help people to be healthy, which is also the most important thing for perfect life. Having lovers is as important as being healthy for satisfied life.

          
            Finally, people should be able to have enough money to afford perfect life. People don’t have to be a millionaire to be live in happiness, but do need to have enough economic ability to do something that will satisfy them. Money is important because too much money will be obstacle for perfect life and too less money will also be obstacle for perfect life. Too much money might cause problem in relationship between people and their lovers. Too much money is likely to cause fight between people. On the other hand, too less money might cause health problem. For example, if someone had a cancer and he/she does not have enough money to get surgery, it would ruin his/hers perfect life of health, love and money. Thus, it is very important to have enough amount of money for perfect life.

Were people more friendly in past days than today?

Modern ways to communicate with other people have been changed a lot from the past days. In the past days, people should have interacted face to face because there was no such thing as phone or computer. However, these days, people communicate with each other with electronic devices more than actually talking to each other. Some people say that development of technology of communication has only advantages. However, I disagree with it. I believe that people in the past days were much friendlier than nowadays.

           People in the past days had to interact directly with other people. They had to face each other and talk not like these days. These days, people talk through messengers which do not show their face. This leads people easy to tell something that can hurt other people’s feelings. A person tends to reconsider before he/she tell something to someone when they have to tell it in front of someone. People do not take responsible for what they say when they say something anonymous because they know that the other people would not know that they said it.  

           Also, bullies are more active after the development of phones and internet. Many teenagers bully other students through internet or texts because it is easy to contact with the student even if they are not at school. Many students are having hard time from being bullied by their classmates through facebook or texts and that causes a lot of problems these days. Some students even committed suicide from the pain from bullying by their classmates through electronic devices.

           As people interact directly less with each other, people treat other people less kindly because there is less opportunity to be close with other people.  For example, in past days, there were not many supermarkets in town and its size was relatively small to supermarket in these days and this led to people in town to closely interact with the clerk. When they are paying for something, customers tend to talk some random things to clerk, and they become close. Clerk become treat customers more kindly since they are close. On the other hand, many clerks treat customers unkindly in these days. I went to a big supermarket last month, and I asked a clerk where is milk and he answered me very unkindly. If that clerk and I were close, like past days, he would not have behaved like that. He would have been much more kind and friendly.