The weekend is coming to a close. Four days without teaching. Four days to sit and think. Sometimes I think of myself as a failure, not yet reaching my potential. Other times I consider myself 'The Little Engine That Could.' I sit nightly and go through my goals and lists, and proudly cross off the ones that I have accomplished or completed. But I am never finished, because new ideas, goals and thoughts get written, almost faster than I can complete the others. That is what life is about. Here re some of my philosophies:
-Life is like a deck of cards. Sometimes you get a good hand, and sometimes a not so good one, but you know that nothing ever stays the same and you need to play with the cards you have until another hand is dealt.
-Today's problems are soon history, replaced by new ones that you are challenged to solve. Nothing stays good r bad forever.
-Think positive and go for the gold, but remember that rest is a key to life and get sleep.
-No one can do everything, and no one has all of the luck. Everyone has something, but some people just don't advertise their 'something.'
-The only 'perfect person' is someone who never tries anything, so never has the opportunity to fail.
-It is not a sin to have a messy home.Sometimes life takes over and there is no time to clean - you choose --> life with family or scrubbing the floor...I would choose family life.
-You need to give respect to get it.
-Don't go around thinking that everyone burdens you and you are the victim of everything bad. GD has better things to do than choose you to have all of the heartaches. Everyone has them - but you need to be mature enough to let go of them and don;t let them overpower you. If you can't do this, that is ok, but get some help fro a friend in making small steps to get there.
-Make peace with your past so it won't screw up your present.
-It's never too late to have a happy child-hood. But the second one is up to you and no one else
-Friends are the family that we choose ourselves
I have written a lot and could go on and on. I am here thinking about life and what I want from it. Life is not tied up with a bow but it is a gift. I want to be as successful as possible (more than monetary success). I want to be able to help as many as I can, and be helped by others. I want to have people respect me and touch many lives.
I am on a mission at the moment to not only become the best teacher that I can, but to create an internet career that can not only help me, but help others. I will keep you posted on happenings and things in my life.
About me personally, I am a mother of two young adult men, two dogs and a teacher of many. I teach in the South Bronx during the day at a poverty-stricken inner city school, and afternoons and weekends at a suburban after school program where the student come from professional and middle to upper class families. I love both my jobs. I help out at times in an animal shelter and am on the Board of my Condominium complex. I have a sister who lives about 40 miles away with her husband and family, a niece in graduate school in the midwest and a father in Florida. My mother, GD bless her soul, died in 1986. I love music, art, puppeteering (ventriloquism) and sleight of hand (although I am not so good at this). I write poems and parody songs and love to laugh. I hope that I am a good friend and I hope that this blog gets me through good and stressful times.
Thanks for taking the time to read this.
-Laurie
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