DrummerMike little box

It's an interesting take on things, Drummer. I've known many successes in my life that will, I believe be successful long after I pass this world. For instance, I've written some pretty good books that I believe will still be a good read long after I pass to my reward, when I die. Dying itself is easy; everyone does it once. But leaving can tell much about a person, and many good testimonies of success are from the way a person leaves this life. That's legacy. I've taught people things they didn't know, and ignited their passion for success in those things. They have succeeded, from their work, to their families and friends, and the world has been changed because good people did good things. I always believed I could do successful things; I've never not given my own ability doubts.

Nice work. Congrats on the good grade.

The topic was together we will... and mine was the only pessimist serious one... he said he was amazed when he gave me the A, since it was pessimist.

The topic was together we will... and mine was the only pessimist serious one... he said he was amazed when he gave me the A, since it was pessimist.

*pessimistic.

Getting an A on a high school paper does not necessarily mean that you have written a masterwork. It appears that you are more impressed with yourself than the rest of us are.

More essays please.

D.C. public school right?

Great work my friend please post more of your essays

I'm reminded of what G.K. Chesterton had to say about 'believing in yourself'.

Thoroughly worldly people never understand even the world; they rely altogether on a few cynical maxims which are not true. Once I remember walking with a prosperous publisher, who made a remark which I had often heard before; it is, indeed, almost a motto of the modern world. Yet I had heard it once too often, and I saw suddenly that there was nothing in it. The publisher said of somebody, "That man will get on; he believes in himself." And I remember that as I lifted my head to listen, my eye caught an omnibus on which was written "Hanwell." I said to him, "Shall I tell you where the men are who believe most in themselves? For I can tell you. I know of men who believe in themselves more colossally than Napoleon or Caesar. I know where flames the fixed star of certainty and success. I can guide you to the thrones of the Super-men. The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums." He said mildly that there were a good many men after all who believed in themselves and who were not in lunatic asylums. "Yes, there are," I retorted, "and you of all men ought to know them. That drunken poet from whom you would not take a dreary tragedy, he believed in himself. That elderly minister with an epic from whom you were hiding in a back room, he believed in himself. If you consulted your business experience instead of your ugly individualistic philosophy, you would know that believing in himself is one of the commonest signs of a rotter. Actors who can't act believe in themselves; and debtors who won't pay. It would be much truer to say that a man will certainly fail, because he believes in himself. Complete self-confidence is not merely a sin; complete self-confidence is a weakness. Believing utterly in one's self is a hysterical and superstitious belief like believing in Joanna Southcote: the man who has it has `Hanwell' written on his face as plain as it is written on that omnibus."

Wow... I'm so amazed by this essay.

Not because it's good, but because such a sub-par composition should never be given the highest possible grade. I'm also amazed that you call a work of such length an essay.

It is truly sad to see the failures of modern education first hand.

I delete papers like this on the way to writing real papers.

Together humanity will experience all that both good and bad, with the bad necessary to make any experience feel good. Only when world ends will God be able to experience a better reality. Since GOD is the accumulation of everyone, each of our consciousness is something God will remember having experienced as well when everything merges together again at the end. GOD will be the only one who can judge you fairly, since he remembers it as something he did with the knowledge you had, but he also knows everything else so he can draw a conclusion. Everything that has meaning gets it from having an opposite force, so if there is a good afterlife, there also need to be a worse possible alternative.

If you imagined yourself in his situation, you would be feeling like a crazy man was screaming at you for no reason and staying calm rather escalate was him choosing the right course of action. If someone having experienced that from both your perspective where to judge who was wrong and who was correct, you would be crazy guy in this situation your describing to us.

Also the guy is right, that people who believe in themselves are able to accomplish more, because its positive thoughts of doing something that causes you to do those things, negative thoughts just give people reasons not to bother when anyone can do what it takes to do something with enough work put forward. Most ideas on how to do real magic which have been studied and practiced in the past involves thinking something enough or several people thinking it, the chances of that happening compared to alternative increase. I don't think the magic exists, although anything you do is preceded by thought, which motivated you do something.