Poverty

You love school. The aspect of learning makes you smile. You finish elementary school and can't go to high school because your family is too poor and needs you to work. As you were growing up everyone said how you'd go to high school and college and have your life easier. So the whole time of school you tried your hardest and set your expectations very high but no matter what you still get shot down. All because of the fact that poverty has kept you away from the things you love.

Poverty is evil. It feeds on the things you love and cherish. Therefore when in poverty everything is a challenge whether it's paying the rent or getting an education. It teaches a very good lesson though. A lesson of the items you own mean so much more to you since you know that it was very hard to become the owner of that item whether it's bread or a toy. That is a lesson that most people don't have and one that cannot be taught in a school. Poverty strikes on the families that do nothing wrong to deserve it. They could live a god life and not sin but still get smacked with poverty. It is a very depressing matter when thinking that there are less fortunate people everywhere and your mind drifts to where they might sleep tonight or how they get their food or how they even survive. Most people though fight through it and attempt to make the best of it all.

At least we can be sure that people now are helping fight poverty. As they fight through this mess let's hope one by one that they start to get things they love back.

Unfair

(It won't let me indent!)
Watching your mom talk to your sibling and can tell that she loves your sibling more than she loves you and wondering why this is. One person though that understands you and that loves you more than the world but then that person is gone. All you can do is wonder why this happens to you. The only sensible answer is that you have been dropped into an unfair life and world.

Of course most people have heard a smart alec go "life's unfair" in response to "this is unfair". Even though we just want to punch that person as hard as possible he is right. Truly not much is fair in life. There's nothing anyone could to to stop it from happening because it's just something that we have to learn to deal with. It could be the toughest thing to get over since when something goes wrong it's because it was unfair. As when someone can't come up with the money to pay the rent and they get kicked out and they don't have much money. It is all unfair because there are people who have so much money they don't know what to do with it, but the worst part is when you start to realize that more and more things are unfair.

It is just depressing that nothing can be fair for normal people. Some of the richer people may have it kind of fair but not completely. Unfairness is normal so that means this truly is an unfair world.

Response to All Summer in a Day

Standing there in gym watching everyone plays basketball and someone passes you the ball. You dodge it and move out of the way and let the ball bounce pass you. By doing that not only did you exclude yourself from the game but you also excluded yourself from the world.

          Isolation may just seem to be a word but it is much more. It could mean death or insanity. By isolating ourselves from other people, friendship, games, and yourself you destroy parts of yourself. You need friendship and people to talk to and without that you could just whither away and no one would notice or even care. The people that we see and meet are a vital part of our lives whether we think so or if we don’t.  In the short story Margot is already partially insane from leaving the Earth into no sun but her not opening up to other people makes everything worse and her peers hate her for that. People don’t necessarily distain isolated people but they aren’t friendly towards them. By opening up and becoming friends saves you from isolation and helps you become a better person. In All Summer in a Day Margot doesn’t sing songs about anything but the sun which shows the children that she doesn’t care about anything but the sun.

          From being isolated you miss the one thing that you live for. That you want everyday and have to wait for just for being isolating yourself. Eventually your own world disappears.