The World we live in

     In life we always want what’s good and we want it in large proportions. However, how many of us want the same for another or even envy them when we do not get what they have, thinking we should get it too. Our lives come first and we want our lives to have everything we desire, as long as we are getting what we need, others are not much of a concern to us. Rather we would envy others if they get something we cannot get. This makes us selfish as we only see ourselves and ignore others, we use others as a means to get what we need and we throw them away when we cannot get what we need from them. Being selfish makes us lose more than what we get, those around us leave and desert us because they are worthless to us. They are there to help us reach our aims, once we have reached them, friends are no longer friends, families are deserted and the people we come in contact with are means for our personal gains. Our envies for others successes and achievements also play a ...

Every parent raises wants the best for their child, however what we deem as the right thing can actually be the wrong thing. In a marriage both parents can have similar tactics in raising their children but it is not completely the same, others completely differ on the way their child should be raised and sometimes this can be a problem. Kids’ upbringing is vital for their future because they become a product of the way you raised them. They represent your parental skills to the world and whether they do the right or wrong thing it’s a reflection of you as a parent and child raiser. Parents do have different approaches to raising their children and this can sometimes conflict as both ideas may not go in hand and hand. One parent may see that giving a child what their hearts desires makes them happy, helps them be equal to their peers and that they know that you are willing to do anything they want for them to keep them smiling. Another may see this approach wrong because the chid wi...

Having an illness can be difficult because you feel on and off and sometimes seeing the life changes in your daily life can be difficult. As people we want to be at best health so we can continue to do the things we do. Having an illness or disease is not a bad thing rather it is a new adventure. When you have an illness or disease you learn new skills to manage and do the things you use to do. You learn to prioritize and how to do things at set times because your symptoms can occur at any time. You learn to be thankful and contemplate on the many blessings in your life. You realize many blessing that you took for granted and ignored and see how the little things you overlook is the most important in your life. How many of us are actually thankful and aware of our good health and use it to the best of our ability to help ourselves and others with it? not many of us. If we did we would use it the we should our good health and not play with it as something that will last forever. ...

MS is a disease which effects the nervous system. myelin sheaths which help conduct nerve impulses around the body are effected and the areas which are effected become harder to use or coordinate. MS effects people in a number of different ways: 1. Lower back pain 2. Bladder changes 3. Electrical currents running through the back of the neck all the way down (Lhermittes phenomenon) 4. Loss of balance when walking (gait disturbance) 5. Numbness in right hand making it difficult to right. If I write my whole body feels like it is suffering an attack. 6. Numbness in right foot and when I walk for some time it feels like it stops. 7. Heat can make symptoms feel aggressive and coldness makes affected feel stiff and numb 8. Vision problems 9. Fatigue 10. Weakness of movement in affected areas 11. Sleep loss. 12. Neck pain and stiffness As a person who has MS I hope to share some useful tips that may help people who have MS or have people in their families who have it or f...

November 8 for many was going to be one of the biggest events of the century. For many, it was going to be the day America was going to elect its first female president, however that was not the case. Rather America chose a man who had no prior experience of politics and whose campaign clearly showed that he had no chance of becoming America’s next president. His election victory not only shocked American’s but the entire world as everyone else who does not live in America are spectators and constantly look into the latest on the election.   Many people around the world began to speculate what a Trump presidency would look like and would Trump fulfill many of the policies he said he would do when he enters the white house. Others began to voice their concerns and worries of Trump as president and Trump continue to keep the same attitude candidate Trump. All media types burst with comments, fears and thoughts of people who had something to say of Trump’s election policy, h...

Acceptance is something we all look for. We want to be accepted by the people around us and the wider community as a whole. We want people to know us and acknowledge our existence and perceive us as people who are and can do something. We always say we feel left out and not included by others so we look for their acceptance so we can see that we are something. Why do we search for acceptance and what happens to us when go on the search for acceptance? Firstly, as people we search for acceptance because we feel we are noticed and people will acknowledge what we do and who we are. Our aim is for people to acknowledge us as a person who is a person who is alive in this world and is fully capable of doing the things they want and living up to our potential. We feel abandoned and unwanted if we are not noticed and what we do not considered. This make us search for acceptance because we do not want to be left out and this plays a toll on us and our personality. When we want to be ackn...

Every human wants to be part of a happy and loving family where they feel safe and confident. We do our best to maintain that our families possess these qualities so our lives can be stable lives. However, our actions can affect the way our families function leading it to crumble and weaken, even if you are aiming to keep it intact. Many of our actions can affect us and our daily lives and that is why we have to take responsibility for our actions if we want our marriages and family be what we want it to be. Many actions of ours can affect us and here are some that do: 1)      Wasting our time looking at others This is something we can all relate to, whether we do it once or it was become our daily habit, we have a tendency to look at other’s lives. Looking at others’ lives can have negative impacts on us because the time we should be spending time on our lives, we allocate it to wondering and looking up the latest news about someone else. This limits our th...

          Embrace what you can do As people we believe that we can accomplish everything we set our mind to. It is nice to think positive but this is not entirely true. We may do a lot of things but we will not accomplish all that we want to do, somethings are things we just can’t do even if we put every effort into it. We are human and we have a limit to our capacity, we are good at certain things and we are not at others.  Embrace what you can do over what you can’t do because no matter how much you try to go beyond that limit you can’t do it. That is why it is important to be proud at your level of achievement and hold on to it. Sometimes there are things we can achieve but are too lazy or are bothered to do, then is the time where you have to get up and put effort. The reason why we must embrace our hard-work and understand our limits is because if we do not, we will start to look at others and begin to question why I can’t do this or that. W...

We are all part of a family and at the same time we are not. We are physically part of a family as we have a mum, dad, brother, sister and spouse but we are emotionally estranged from them. Mothers and fathers have become estranged to their children and the children to their parents. Spouses are apart too and spend little to no time together. Thus the family unit is deprived from one another and know little to nothing about each other. The question that emerges here is, are we a family and what does being a family mean if this is the way we live. A family is a unit that are connected, what happens to one effects the rest and always motivate and care for one another. Today, in our households that is not the case, there is complete neglect of the biggest family rule, spending time together.  We are all secluded in our own bubble with kids doing their thing and parents doing their own individual thing. The advent of technology was only created widened the gap that was created...

When we lose something or something occurs we want to know who is behind it and why they did it. Sometimes we find out who did it or they come forward, but sometimes we do not know. As people we want to find an answer to every problem so we do everything to have an answer. However, when certain things occur we accuse others due to suspicion and our own created analysis. For instance, you lose your wallet at school or at your workplace and no one comes forward to claim they took it because they probably did not take it. We want an answer to why our wallet is gone and we begin to speculate who could have taken and why they did. We think about who has a grudge on us and would do it because they do not like us or someone who has pick-pocketed before and due to this we suspect they are behind it. We keep this thought, spread it among our closest friends and we may even confront them and blame them for doing the deed. This is called suspicion and the individual we accuse becomes our prime w...

Everyone is good at something; you may be good at one thing and one may be good at another thing. When we are not good at a particular thing or did not do well at something and someone else did, we sometimes feel bad and upset. Feeling upset that you didn’t do well or are not good at something is natural as we want to do the best we can. However, the problem is that if our upset feelings lead us to envying and refusing to accept another’s success. Not accepting a person’s success such a friend, sibling, neighbor, colleague or classmate creates envy towards the individual who reached the success. Envying affects us in a number of ways can leave us empty until we mend ourselves away from it. When we are envious we are less focused on our lives and focus on other’s lives, we monitor their every move like if it was our own life. We praise the slightest affliction that hits them and envy their successes, we backbite them, slander them and we use abusive sarcasm towards them. We think t...

Every single day we stand in front of the mirror to look at ourselves. We look at our hair to see if it is neat, our clothes are in shape and that we are fit and have a fine build. We make sure that our appearance is perfect so we are good looking and beautiful. But the question is, what is beautiful, what does it mean to be beautiful and what does a beautiful person look like?, is there a single definition or not and the answer is definitely not. If you ask people to define what a beautiful looks like, everyone you ask will give you differing views to what they think a beautiful person looks like. Throughout history people have had different interpretations to what beautiful is, that is why there are different styles that people had and liked and even today we have different dress and styles across different cultures around the world and the way they want to make themselves look. The way we perceive beautiful may be ugly to those before and may be generations after us, yet we cry...

Marriage is a blessed and fabulous thing, but it can only be this if it contains harmony and love. Marriage problems are not the prettiest things to see or hear about, constant arguments, disputes and grudges. However, marriage problems also play a deadly effect on our well-being in terms of health, daily living and our social interactions, but the can also play a toll on those closest to us who care and want us to be happy and thrive.  Marriage problems on health Our health is a reflection of us and our moods and emotions can either keep our health the way it is or effect it negatively, depending on what emotion we are feeling and expressing. During marriage problems, you are constantly worried, upset anxious or angry and these emotions aren’t the best emotions for your well-being. Your worried for your marriage, your kids, your upset that your once upon a time happy marriage is not what it used to be, your anxious for the future and what is left for your marriage and ...

Last year, I had to send a letter to a university I was applying to. This seems like something ordinary and simple but for me, it was something amazing. Usually we tend to send emails and for people my age, sending a letter would be something close to impossible. It was those moments when you’re shown something ancient your mesmerized. Personally, before then I had never sent a letter as everywhere you want to send something to asks you for your email. When I had finished sending the letter, it was like I had embarked on a new experience because I grew up in an era where everything is technological and sending letters is quite ancient. We prefer sending an email or communicating through other means that use the internet as its quicker and writing a letter to us is just a waste of valuable time, especially if you are someone who grew up in the internet age. Today, we use technology everywhere and it has created an immense change on how we do things, and one of the places it did cre...

When it comes to the question, which is better, home-schooling or public education, people oftenly have differing opinions. Some vote for public schooling while others favour home-schooling and each side brings their own analysis on why one is wrong and the other is better. Most of the time these analyses’ come from parents who observe the difference between the two as some use the effects they see in their kids to prove their point. As a student who has experienced both functions, I will analyse both methods of learning although after comparing studying at home and school, I have found studying at home to be more effective for my learning whether academically or socially. I will take arguments that are usually presented by both sides and present why I am on team home schooling. 1)       Social interactions Many people who believe public schooling is better say that kids who attend school have better social interactions because they are among kids their a...

When people hear child neglect the first thing that comes to their mind is a child who has been abandoned by his parents or a parent who gives no care to their child and their needs. That is true, many children are neglected by their parents, but some in an informal manner. They may be wearing the most expensive clothes brands, have expensive gadgets such as iPad's and iPhone's and get whatever they want but are still neglected. They may not be neglected in terms not having a clean home environment, or having everything their hearts desires, they have all this but they are neglected from very important factors they need in their lives as children and as adults. These factors which include good manners, how to set up goals and how to live in the real world. Kids get everything they want but are not given what they need to carry with themselves for their future and social interactions. Good manners Good manners are essential for how we deal with people in our lives and t...

Many people in the world say they love and like us. Our friends say they like us, our spouses and children say they love us but none of their love compares to the love of our mother. The mother who was pregnant with us for nine months and went through different stages of pains and weaknesses during pregnancy. She held us close since we were born, weaned us and helped us with our first steps and stayed up all night when we cried as babies and when we would get colds and fevers. She hoped that she could take on those pains and spare us from them, she would greet us with a smile and we loved to see that warm smile. She gave up all her dreams, whether it was to work, graduate from university or get employed with her new degree so she could be there for us when we called her. She was patient each time we tried to shut her out and said that she did not understand what we were going through. She worried when we used such words and hoped everything was okay and prayed that we would be okay. S...

A dysfunctional family is the worst thing that can exist. It’s worse than being worse than being diagnosed cancer, losing all your finances etc. This is because broken lives are produced from these families, and lives even if they establish themselves as successful people, they still bear the memories of the dark days they have witnessed. A heart once broken will always carry the memories that broke it and even if they find love from those around them, it is still not enough to glue the shattered pieces together. That is why a dysfunctional family is the worst thing to happen to a child. If they have cancer or any chronic illness and you are there by their side, they are still full. If you are having difficult times and you still love and show care to your child, they are still happy. However, marriage breakdowns and issues effects a child immediately and it can change their characteristics and personality forever and parents don’t seem to realise. When talking about families and m...