STORY OF MY LIFE

       It was like any October morning, chilly and lazy, full with chaos in the living room, kitchen full with food, and the bedroom lonely. My fatigued mother took care of annoying kids, yelling and running, while I accompanied my mother doing the laundry downstairs. The kids stayed with my father upstairs and he didn't mind because all the kids are scared of him, so they sat down on the untouched coach. My father had to go to work and dismissed us with a warm hug and kiss. 

"Stay here with the kids while I go put detergent on the clothes. I'll be back," said my mother as she grabbed the detergent bottle and left. 

I thought to myself, could i really take care of kids younger than me if i care barely take care of myself?

The kids all started running and yelling, again. I was getting bugged with them, so I left to the bedroom. I locked myself because I knew they were going after me. They started banging on the door loudly that I thought the door was going to fly off. I still didn't know how to do a lot of things that my average age would be able to do. 

One thing that I did know how to do very well was turn on the television. Although I could turn the television on, I didn't know how to turn the volume down. It was about that time of the year where only scary movies would show up on every channel.

Damn what luck i have, right? I was terrified of horror movies so my first instinct was to yell as loud as I can. The kids heard me and all ran to the door to see what was wrong. Ironically, they can't see through the door. They all went to call my mother, which she was talking with the chatty neighbor.

They tried to all explain, which they failed at, so they all end up pushing her towards the kitchen when she realizes that I'm screaming from the top of my lungs. 

"What's wrong?" She realizes the door is locked. By her knowledge, she knows I can't unlock the door. What a difficult task for a 4 year-old?!

"I can't open the door!" I started crying. My mother puts her ear on the door and hears screaming and asks, "who's with you? Who's yelling?"

The television was still on and I tried turning it off until I saw my worst nightmare, Chucky. I ran back to the door and started crying even more. "Chucky!"

My mother calls my father, knowing he was at work a few blocks away. He was excused and came to the house as fast as he could. 

"I could kick the door down!"

"Wait! She's right next the door crying!"

"Then what to we do now!"

"Call the firefighter and take her out from the window!"

"No! It can't be that difficult to do and besides... she's crying! Go for the screwdriver!"

My mother goes for the screwdriver and she's hears nothing but gasps of my crying and the noisy television. My father examines the doorknob and sees there's nails on the outer part of the door. He starts unscrewing the doorknob as my mother talks to me to calm me down. 

After 10 minutes of unscrewing the rusted nails, they slowing open the door just to see me laying on the brown, carpet floor. My mother turns off the television and holds me. She notices my red, puffy eyes.

"Gigi... Gigi..." No movement. 

"Gissel!" 

Little did they know I had fallen asleep from all that crying. I woke up in relieve to see my mother and father. Lesson learned: don't avoid little annoying kids and lock yourself in the room.

SO THIS GUY GOES FOR A WALK

Ray Bradbury wrote “The Pedestrian” because he shows how all televisions at 2053 would be turned on and how the streets were always empty after 8. He gets pulled over by a police man and gets questioned in why he’s walking the streets. He asks the questions and the police man doesn’t believe in what he’s being told. The fact that walking wasn’t “normal” in the society makes you in disbelief that it could actually happen. Mr. Mead seems cool when he gets pulled over because he knows he was telling the truth. Although the officer didn’t believe him, Mr. Mead didn’t deny it. The plot of the story was so realistic because of the details Bradbury inserted to make you feel present. He also describes the society we are growing to become. That makes the plot scary.

My Author, My Hero

Jane Austen

In Thoreau's Words

 "Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves."

Translation: the day you're alone, you'll know more at yourself. Describes you as a person.

When you lose yourself, you're likely to be alone. Although being alone might sound like a bad idea, it isn't. Its healthy for you and eventually others. You'll find your own personal traits, talents and as you interact with your friends, they'll notice a change within yourself. Its fine because you're loving yourself and others at the same time. Most people can't do that yet. Usually its because we're attached to something or someone. Most people, including myself, are always stuck of their phones. Why? Probably its that notification that goes off. Change that, listen to yourself, mentally and physically. 

"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."

Translation: Looking at something/someone doesn't mean I'm focused in it. Describes you caring.

In a day, you look at so much that you don't even remember what you saw. But when something catches your eye, you take a long pause and look at it. You remember it clearly either if its for a few days, months, years. The value that it has, you'll remember it.

"Life isn't about finding yourself; it's about creating yourself. so live the life you imagined.

Translation: You can't find yourself, you make (decision/behavior) yourself. 

How are you going to find something that you know doesn't exist? You imagine it. You know the way you want to be looked at based on how you behave, talk, and your unique personalities. 

Emerson’s Essay

Emerson choose the title, “On Self-Reliance” because he knows what it’s like to be human and living in the society where people pressure you into not being yourself. Self-reliance means believing in yourself. Within you, you’re the only person who really knows what it’s like to be you. As Emerson does show his main ideas its possible that he lived through each and every one of them. Emerson’s tone in the essay is bold, not caring for what people have to say about his own work. He puts his work out in the world for people to read despite the arguments and the feedback. Emerson put the words in a way that a person would have been scared to read it. Although the text is back in the day, most of the writing is relatable in modern's society. Emerson uses long, complex words to describe modern day situations in which takes time in order to process the text. In the fifth paragraph, it states, "their [children, babes, and brutes] mind being whole, their eye is as yet unconquered, and when we look in their faces, we are disconcerted. Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it..." This context is understandable yet has a powerful meaning behind it. The person that controls the adults are usually the youth. As babies don't know a way to express themselves or their thoughts, so they start crying. Emerson knows that adults can't do anything about that besides try to understand what they want. As in society nobody can't put you down unless you let yourself. Emerson wrote, "what I must do, is all that concerns me, not what people think." This quote brought me a reminder of my mother because she does what she wants due to the fact that she isn't scared of being judged. She tells me, you be the one to control your fears, not others.

Today’s Emerson Reading

Conviction: belief, opinion
Envy: jealousy
Sentiment: attitude
The only person that know you better is yourself. You have talents within that you didn’t know until you try doing it. You do something or you don’t, easy as that big results will say a lot about you. We’re so stuck in what society wants and what is cool and leave behind what we want to express but can’t.

Vocabulary Definitions

meme: an image with a written text explaining a funny situation that becomes spread quickly
Virus: bad computer code that controls over the device
Viral: picture or video that spread quickly in social media
Blog: a website that is runner by a person or group and posts
Wiki: website that anyone can write in
URL: address in the Internet
Website: located in the internet
Www: World Wide Web
Internet: network use to control communications
2.0: makes sure what technology is better and updated
Open source: software in which the code is available and can be made better