Prompt #24 " What are The Three Qualities of True Friends?"

 

     True friends… true friends are friends that you feel the most comfortable with. Friends and true friends are different. You could have many friends but you would have a certain amount of true friends, sometimes maybe one or two or three true friends. Today’s prompt is what the three qualities of true friends are. I think the MAIN quality of a true friend is honesty. Friends should never lie to each other. There may be times when a friend could accidentally lie, but a TRUE friend should never lie on purpose. At a time when a friend accidentally lies, that friend should apologize to his or her friend because lying is just not the right thing to do. True friend tell everything to their best friends. I guess best friends are like one’s true friends. I would tell my best friend everything, because I trust my best friend, but once my best friend has lied to me, I would always think two times before telling my best friend anything. Once a friend makes a mistake, he or she would continue to make that same mistake and think it is okay to make that mistake not thinking of how his or her best friend might actually feel or be hurt by it. That true friend would turn into a friend that just takes advantage of the other friend. The most effective thing to break a friendship is by lying. Having no trust in each other leads to so many things like assuming and fighting over things because you would just believe in what others say and not what other people tell you. This does not mean once two friends fight, they cannot become friends again. Fighting could actually make both friends realize how much they think of each other and how much they actually care. It would lead them to realize how stupid they were for fighting about things that were not even worth fighting. This is true friends! <3

                The second quality of a true friend is loyalty. A true friend should never betray your friend in any way. For example, if you were walking and you see your best friend getting beat up by a bunch of popular friends. If you go say something and help your best friend, the popular kids would bully you at school and make your life miserable. If you just ignore all of that and pass by acting like nothing happened, you would have to live with the feeling of regret in your heart that you did not help your best friend. If you run away then call for help, there is a fifty fifty chance that your best friend would be okay.  If you were just a friend, you would either run away or just ignore this situation. TRUE FRIENDS would NEVER leave his or friend behind. (Or getting beat up, or in any situation like that) If the person who was getting hit was my TRUE FRIEND, no matter what is going to happen to me, I would run to my friend and help her or him. If there is a little time before that, I would call for help first because if I go and we both get in danger that would just lead to worse problems.

                The third quality of a true friend is caring. Friends should always care for each other. Not because they HAVE to but because they WANT TO. True friends naturally just care for each other. This is a form of friendly LOVE <3 which can be with a guy and a guy, a guy and a girl, and for a girl and a girl.

PROMPT 23 "What is the Strongest Strength of Human?"

I guess the greatest strength of human is LOVE. Today’s prompt is “What is the greatest strength of human?” and I have chosen LOVE. Love can make a person do anything, from my point of view. Love is the strongest strength of a human. Even though love is the strongest strength of humans, this does not mean that love does not have advantages and disadvantages to it.

Love could cure illnesses, or more specifically, the power of love could cure illnesses. The more love you give and show to a person, the more they feels like they are worth something and tries to become a better person. For people in the hospitals, if it was not for their family and friends who support them to get better and live on, they would simply lose hope and want to die. Showing care and making a person feel like they are special is a big thing for people who are sick. People who are sick lose hope quickly and often think they are just a useless person who is doing harm to their own family by having to waste precious money that the family could be using to pay for other things to pay for the hospital bills. Patients often have the wrong thought that even when they get better and come out of the hospital, they would not be able to make money and always have to have a person look after him or her which would just be a nuisance for the family. For example, in Korea, there was a case where a grandpa and a grandma suicide by jumping off ship. The grandma had an illness where she could not remember the past and acted like a child because she had lost all of her memory. The grandpa and the grandma had been very poor and because of a storm, their house collapsed because of a tree that fell onto the house. From what the news reporters reported, they think that the grandma and grandpa had lost all the hope they had and felt useless so they both commit suicide. They showed a cctv clip where it shows the grandpa helping the grandma fall off of the ship, then he follows the grandma by jumping off too. This is a very depressing story because it was reported that the grandma and grandpa had children, and all of their children were very sad and mad that they could not do anything that would have let their parents to live on. This is because of the lack of love the children showed to their parents. The strength of love could help a person get through the hardest time of their lives.

                There are many stories about how helpless animals are nurtured with love and how they change. Last week, I saw a photo on Facebook where it showed one photo of a dog with skin disease and no hair growing on its body. Then the next photo showed a photo of the SAME dog but this time the dog had a HUGE AMOUNT of hair. There was a paragraph written that was explaining what had happened to this dog. A woman had found her a year ago next to the trash can, looking like a skeleton because it had not eaten anything for days. The woman brought the dog home and took care of the dog and a year after; the dog became healthy and fat. This shows how effective a person’s actions could affect another animal’s life.  The power of love was the main key point that made it possible for the dog to become healthy and happy again. 

PROMPT #22 "Big school or a Small school"

There are SO MANY big schools and SO MANY small schools all over the world. I am in 11^th grade right now and of my school years I have been to both big schools and small schools.  When I was four years old, my family moved to Guam which is an Island in the Pacific Ocean that is right next to a different island called Saipan. My brother and I went to a small school in Guam called Trinity Christian School (TCIS). One grade only had one class because of the small amount of students. Then my family moved to Shanghai, China when I became about 11 years old. In Shanghai I went to three different schools. One was a medium size school and the two other schools were really big schools. For third grade I went to a school called SCIS Shanghai Community International School. (Changmin) I call this school a medium sized school because compared to the small schools I went to, this school was way bigger, but compared to the big schools I went to, this school was really small. For my fourth grade year, I moved to a school called SAS Pudong. (Shanghai American School) In Shanghai there are two different SAS campuses, Pudong and Puxi. Both schools are really good but they are just located in different areas because Shanghai is so big. I lived about 45 minutes away from SAS Puxi and about 1 hour and 50 minutes from SAS Pudong. I went to SAS Pudong for my 4^th grade year because there was no space in SAS Puxi, so for my 5^th grade year I moved to SAS Puxi. When I was in 6^th grade 4^th quarter, my family moved to Saipan. I attended a school called SIS (Saipan International School) in Saipan and I am still attending this school. This school is a small school like the school I went to in Guam. TCIS and SIS only have one class per grade. SCIS has three classes per grade, and lastly SAS has about 6-8 classes for each grade.

If you think about it, there are many advantages and disadvantages about big schools and small schools. Some advantages for a small school could be that you could be real close to the teachers because there are not as many students as there are in a big school. In a small school, you could become very close to the people in your class because they would be the class you will graduate with and spend many years with. Some disadvantages for a small school is that there is only one class. You would have to be friends with everyone in your class, and if for instance something happens, and you fight with someone, you will have no other choice but to go to school with that person or a group of people until you the year you graduate. Another disadvantage is that there are not a variety of classes in a small school to take.

Big schools have a variety of classes where you could choose the classes you want to take, and also extra curriculum classes. Big schools allow you to become social and would give you the chance to meet various people. The disadvantage of a big school is that you would not be able to have a close relationship with the teachers because there would be too many students that the teacher would sometimes not remember your name in some cases. Also, if you were in a small school and you did not understand something in class, you could go and ask the teacher without feeling awkward.