Personal Narrative Research

Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are nothing more than a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

You might think that every bad thing in the world can happen but in reality it would be impossible for your life to be one mistake or mess-up after another. Simply put, thinking about worst-case scenarios all the time is not only unhealthy but also an unrealistic thing to do.

In this essay I will try to explain why visions of the future are so

As you Spring Forth in 2017, have you begun to discipline your mind to see your future reality? Think through that question for a second. A person who doesn't envision her future, is like a tourist who says he doesn’t look at the local map. Although the tourist may save time in the short run, he ends up repeating many steps and loses out on many rewards in

Since our present shapes our future, then why do we bother to stress about our future when it is so unpredictable? Our purpose in life should be to live in the moment, and our purpose in life should be to work for ourselves and only for ourselves at that moment. We get carried away with materialistic stuff and forget to live our life in the present and forget to seize the day. We should focus on making the moment about ourselves since it will remain with us forever. This idea of living in the moment is well expressed in Carpe Diem, seizing the day. In the poem “A Late Aubade” Richard Wilbur talks about his view on Crape Diem similar to the view of Robert Herrick in his poem “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time.

We all have an idea of how the future may look. Hovercraft vehicles, space travel as seen in the Star Wars series, and task driven robots living alongside us. All seemingly exciting advancements, nevertheless this “future” we imagine is still years away. However, what if that was not the case? People do not often realize how much the world changes around them as they are living their daily lives, but others are not that fortunate. Technology, transportation, and communication have all made immense progressions in the last couple decades, and we are able to adapt along the way. The problem is: what if we were not able to learn these things as the times changed? For countless American prisoners, today can be considered the future. Why

Today, there are many people in the church who have assimilated this mentality that the future is not a choice, but an irrevocable sentence. In Buddhism, a close relative of Platonic Philosophy, we see that the first noble truth of Buddha is that life is suffering. You shouldn't fight this, we are stuck in a cosmic cycle. The solution would be to resign yourself, to meditate and seek psychological nirvana — inner happiness — in an altered state of consciousness. This is the same thing as going to the pharmacy, buying a medication to dull yourself and watch life pass by. It's the metaphor of the great wheel: things should return to how they were, fate has already determined the direction of history and there is nothing that could be done. The only thing to be done is to disconnect

As I have gotten older I seem to catch myself looking towards the future more and more. I find myself thinking about what the world will be like many years from now, and as the years progress it seems as though everyone's views change throughout time. But, my answer has always stayed the same.

The year is 2040, and Sam, a young 14-year-old boy, was just like everyone else. He attended a public tech academy along with a couple thousand other kids his age. Every day was the same; same dull gray uniform with a blue stripe going down the back; same classes. English, New Age math, science, and tech theory. Every other student experienced the same classes day by day.

I do not agree with this article but it really made me think about how I have been thinking lately. The only thing that has been holding me back is my past and what keeps me going is my future so why would I want to stop thinking about my future? My future gives me something to look forward to. If I did not think about my future I do not know where I would be headed in life. In my opinion thinking in the present would not do me any good because I would not know what to do

“The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.” - Rene Magritte, Belgian surrealist artist.

I can now officially say that I have survived my first week of college. To be honest, it was not easy at all. I have never been so far away from home without any long-standing acquaintances or family members. The experience of homesickness was foreign to me until this very moment. Aside from missing home, I have already begun to make some great memories and friends here because of the Dragon Scholars program. I was truly amazed at how fast everyone become acquainted with each other and developed a close-knit community.

This I believe that life can change for good why you may ask because everyone deserves a second chance when I was in fourth grade and it happened so fast my parents were divorced I didn't know what that means but my mom hide me when my parents were divorced so I haven't seen my dad for one or two years when I was in my thia house but after my dad found me he fought back for me so I gaved him a second chance we lived in a ranch with my sister life was hard at first but I got the hang of it then it was going to a new school and grade so middle school was all right I didn't goof off in middle school I took it seriously my six grade year was all right saw some kids get bullied but when I was in eighth grade I wanted to be a role model for the

The future is uncertain, but I know one aspect of my future that is crystal clear; my future will always consist of learning. I believe the quest for knowledge never ends because there is always something beyond the eye's visible horizon to discover. Therefore, I plan on constantly inquiring and investigating about the unknown because my desire for knowledge will never be completely satisfied. Beyond high school, beyond college, I will still be listening to lectures, completing assignments, performing experiments, and searching for answers because my hunt for information does not stop once I complete my formal schooling; my education will continue.

We see the future is thought of as an incredibly daunting unknown. Each person has a different idea of what they want to do in the future. Kids grow up watching LeBron James slamming a basketball or hear of Albert Einstein solving seemingly impossible math equations, when they observe images of these beings after hearing stories or viewing them first