to surmount seemingly insuperable obstacles,one has to muster the remanant of faculty. its not just an physical ability & average intelegence which can do it, but an insatiable appetite & unflagging will power to achieve the success.......... ""GREATER THE DIFFICULTY SWEETER THE VICTORY""

i am a self-confessed tv addict. as i have observed the media plays a great role in influencing people. i have seen this on tv. but i would like to see more of it still on tv. for the media to continue educating the general public about the effects of global warming. just continue doing so. this will help save our planet.

I hope to help make this world a better place in a lot of ways. But the way I think I can help the most for now is through my writing. I only have a fifth grade education, but I'm a very open minded person, and I'm always learning. I pick up on or notice things very quickly and remember what I hear, read, and see. I started writing when I was in the second grade, I was about 8 years old, and it might have never happened if not for a woman that worked in the office at my school. Her name was Ms. Bowers, and we didn't like each other at first. I didn't want to go to that school, I wanted to go back to the school I went to before my Mother and I moved from Georgia to Florida. So I did what ever it took to get sent home almost every day. One day though I drew a picture for another woman that worked in the office, and went to the office to give to her. Ms. Bowers saw me standing there and at first thought I was in trouble again. But I showed her the picture and told her I was just there to give it to someone. She looked at it and said, that's pretty good you have talent. You should use that to help with your hyperactive and negative behavior. Instead of being bad and getting yourself in trouble all the time you should turn that negative energy into creativity. find a hobby something you like to do, collect things, draw, paint, make things in art, write, read, learn. And I did, we became the best of friends that year. I went there through fifth grade, and from second grade on I wasn't just the teacher's pet, I was the school's pet. There wasn't a worker at the school that didn't like me, I would often times go with the Spanish or art teacher around the school or in their class to help them teach the rest of the school their lessons because I was quick at catching on to things and good at helping others learn by showing them in ways that made it easy to understand. And through almost the whole fifth grade year I spent the first half of every day helping one of the pre-K teachers that didn't have a helper in her class. Then she would tutor me the second half of the day after her kids had gone home. After fifth grade I was put in home school by my Mother because of some really bad choices made by her, my boyfriend at the time, and myself. It was the start of a dark time in my life. At that point I felt like a prisoner, I became my kid brothers full time instead of part time keeper, and the boy I was with didn't want me to go any where without him, but at the same time never wanted me with him, and even if I went somewhere with my family he swore I was seeing someone else. But he was the first boy to ever like me or see me as a girl and not a tomboy so I thought that meant he loved me. The only freedom I had back then was on Fridays I would get to go back to my school and help the woman that had been my fifth grade teacher with the kindergarten class she was teaching that year. She also had a lot to do with the person I turned out to be. Even though I only had books for the first year, I was able to stay in home school through the ninth grade by passing the test I took at the end of each year. I have not had an easy life by far, and the things I've been through and suffered came so close on more then one occasion to breaking me down and making want to give up. I don't know how many times I felt like ending it all, but I've never given up, and I never will. I'm only 24 years old, but I've learned more in this life then most people I know who are twice my age. The way I see it everything happens for a reason, from everything there is a lesson to be learned, and I will never stop learning not only from my life but from the lives of others as well. I believe in the saying do unto others as you would have them do unto you. I try to live by that, and have for a long time. And because of my openness to learning I'm able to see the world the whole world for what it is and for what it could be. And I see the potential in everyone to make a difference, the only thing holding most people back is not understanding that with just the simplest gesture you can make a mighty difference in someones life. As well as to over come fact that we're made to believe that if we have extra money we have to use it to keep up with the latest trends and buy the newest electronics and just blow it all on needless things to show it off. I don't think that's at all what we're meant to do, I think if you've been blessed with a lot of money, that it's been given to you for a reason. I'm not saying you should give all or even most of your money away, make sure you and your family have what you need, get some things you want, put some money away for a rainy day, and then if you've got some left which if you shop for a bargain instead of buying the most expensive of everything then you should. Use the extra money to help others, there are many ways to help here in America and in other Countries. I think that would make a huge difference in this world. Having money is a test, a test to see if given the chance who will do the right thing, and who will let greed win? We are the Human race, Man kind, we are all the same, our origin is the same, and yet we are so divided, even in a single country there are lines drawn to divide and separate people in so many ways. And if something doesn't give, if we don't try to fix this it's just going to get worse. We made most of the problems we face today by drawing all these lines, and by letting selfishness take over, and now it's time we learn from our mistakes and do the right thing. Because if we don't learn to stand together as one the way we were meant to, then we as a whole don't stand a chance. But if we do stand together, then it's all for one and one for all, no body would have to suffer, no one will be left to fall. I think the saddest thing about the suffering and hardships in this world is that most of them don't have to happen. There is so much sadness that could be ended today if more people could just see past the box that is their life and put themselves in someone Else's shoes for just a moment, then maybe they would understand some things about the harder side of life that they other wise may have never experienced. I write poems a lot of which talk about or address the issue of problems in the world, feelings and emotions that come from having a hard life, ways we can make a difference in the world and the lives of others, and some of my poems are about things I've dealt with and gone through in my life, sadness, anger, heartache, happiness, love, friendship, and more. I also write songs and stories, I am about to publish my first book of poetry it will hopefully be for sale by the end of the year. It's titled Mixed Emotion, I thought that would be the most appropriate name for it. I'm already a third of the way through my next book of poetry, and though I haven't yet decided on a name for it I can't wait to get it finished. Because there are some poems in it that I think should really be heard. I also just published a book of short stories titled A Few Short Stories, at I-Proclaim.com. I wrote all of the stories in it the first week of this month, between May 1, 2007 and May 6, 2007. Each story contains a special meaning, has a message to send that I think almost everyone should be able to understand. I don't know if you would be interested in reading it, but if you do or even if you just have something to add or reply to about what I've said I have an email address set up to take comments and suggestions on my writing as well as my out look on life. The email address is oldsoul.likemine@yahoo.com and I'm more then happy to hear from anyone about things pertaining to these matters. I know I was put here in this life for a reason, I know I'm supposed to use what I've experienced, seen, felt, and learned, to try and find the perfect way to approach people and use the right words to help them really see this world and to open their eyes to all the ways they could make a difference without taking away from their families or themselves. I want to open as many eyes, hearts, and minds as possible, because the more people that start to help then the more people there are that will get the help they desperately need. I hope I haven't taken up to much of your time it's just that once I get started about this sort of thing it's hard for me to stop, because there's so much I want to say, and do, there's really no end to it all. I hope you have a blessed week and that you are kept safe in all that you do. Rachel Elizabeth McDaniel Hughes