CHARATERISTICS IN A TRUE FRIEND…..

We all need other people to live as a human. Firstly we need our family and friends. Sometimes our friends are more important than our family. A friend is a person with whom we spend most of our time. It is very important to spend enjoyable with them. The time we spend with our friends is precious and shouldn’t be wasted. And also while we cannot choose our family, we can choose our friends. But how do we do this selection? What are those caracteristics that make a person a good friend?

In my opinion, a good friend should be reliable, loyal and he or she should have common interests with the one who is his or her friend. Trustfulness is fundamental in any relationship, including friendship. Unless we can rely on a person, we will not consider him or her as a friend. For example i do not want to be in doubt about what my friend said whether it is true or not. Telling lies is a kind of thing that makes a friendship over. What is more when i tell my friend something important or secret, i want to be sure that he will not tell anybody.
On the other hand loyalty is significant characteristic that a good friend should have as well. We need friends not only when we happy but also when we upset. A good friend be with you when you fail on an exam, when you lost a relative, when you run out of money, in any case. Furthermore when you move to another place he or she tries to keep in touch with you.
Having common interests is something that makes friendship permanent. Maybe this is the reason you become friends. You may not share anything with the person who does not have any common interests with you. You probably would not have fun with a friend who does not have common interests with you as you would not find anything to talk to them with.
Sense of humor is a very important characteristic that a friend should have. If one doesn’t have a sense of humor, then he or she would’t care about other people’s feelings and behaves very badly, thinking only of himself. If one has a sense of humor, than he or she will be there whenever you are in need of them and he or she will do everything he can to cheer you up for an instance. Sense of humor will bring other characteristics such as being helpful, thinking of other people in them.

A good listener is also an important characteristic to find in a friend. A good friend is at least a fairly good listener and notices how little, day-to-day things affect you. They can't read your mind, but chances are they can usually tell when you're happy, sad, excited, shocked or upset. If they're aware that they're doing something that annoys you, they try to change their ways or at least talk to you about it. Indirectly, they will do their very best to make you happy.

To sum up, life is easier and more enjoyable to live with good friends. In friendship, being accepting goes hand in hand with being loyal. A true friend rolls with the punches as you grow and change and know how to deal with your quirks and faults. They are also patient with you when you make mistakes even big ones and learn how to forgive you when you hurt them. In other words, they treat you as you'd like to be treated, even when you aren't at your best. Just as what Albert Camus said “Do not walk in front of me, I may not follow. Do not walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”

Causes if Obesity in Teens

Obesity in teens is accounted when these young people have over 10% extra pounds than the recommended or standard weight as per the height. Such obesity occurs only when the overall energy ingestion exceeds the total energy spent, which is done at the time of physical exercise. over 25% school going teens are obese of which 1/4th are highly vulnerable to the risk of diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and frighteningly even premature death. Above all, the worst part of the reality is that teenagers between 10 to 13 ages are 80% prone to be obese adults. After reading these frightening facts, it becomes necessary to control teen obesity. The first step in this direction is to identify the possible causes of obesity in teens.

The first and most important cause is poor eating habits. These habits normally develop because of an imbalance diet, over cooking food, or addiction with the outside food. Further, even if none of the parents has time to cook food at home, the teen has no option but to switch to the junk food. Junk food or fast food is one of those poor eating habits, which is held responsible for fat accumulation in a majority of teens worldwide. It is a common tendency of teens to love such food, but it is not at all healthy. Those high-fat dressings, cheese, butter, non-vegetarian items are all fatty items.

Stress is also one of the main causes of obesity in teens. How? By triggering overeating. The recent time is such that teenagers have to face a lot of peer pressure at school. Further, events such as divorce, abuse, or a close one’s death can add to the fire. In order to reduce the stress, several teens get inclined to overeating. The worst effect of stress is depression. In fact, it is a vicious circle: stress – obesity – depression – more stress. It is found that a big percentage of obese teens are clinically depressed.

The final killer cause is lack of exercise. This needs a special mention in our list of causes of obesity in teens. In this era of technology, where everything needs to be done at a fast speed, all hand works are replaced by machines. Further, the desk-bound life such as sitting in front of computers and video games deprive the teens to keep their body active. With little or no exercise done, the fats are surely going to get accumulated leading to obesity. Walking is taken up by a car, while washing clothes is taken by the washing machine. Do you know our ancestors hardly faced any problems of diseases related to obesity? Why? This is because they used to do all the chores with their hands and legs, not with the machines!

One Man Band

Based on the film, The One Man Band, the theme is clearly about competition in life. This is portrayed by the competiveness of two talented musicians. With all their might, they played different genres of music to defeat each other. Both of them played their instruments boastfully to see who was better and who would get the penny from a little girl. A very tight competition was shown in this story. Besides that, revenge is also portrayed as a theme in this story. It was shown by the little girl who was scared by two talented musicians. Both of them caused the poor girl's coin to fell into the drain. She was very unhappy and she sought for revenge. Those two musicians gave her a violin and she started playing it. When she played it well, an anonymous passer-by left a bag of coins for her. When both men ask for coins, the little girl teased them by offering a few coins but eventually threw those coins into a fountain and never gave them any. This show the little girl had her revenge.

Butterflies

There was a time in my life when beauty meant something special to me. I guess that would have been when I was about six or seven years old, just several weeks or maybe a month before the orphanage turned me into an old man.

I would get up every morning at the orphanage, make my bed just like the little soldier that I had become and then I would get into one of the two straight lines and march to breakfast with the other twenty or thirty boys who also lived in my dormitory.

After breakfast one Saturday morning I returned to the dormitory and saw the house parent chasing the beautiful monarch butterflies who lived by the hundreds in the azalea bushes strewn around the orphanage.

I carefully watched as he caught these beautiful creatures, one after the other, and then took them from the net and then stuck straight pins through their head and wings, pinning them onto a heavy cardboard sheet.

How cruel it was to kill something of such beauty. I had walked many times out into the bushes, all by myself, just so the butterflies could land on my head, face and hands so I could look at them up close.

When the telephone rang the house parent laid the large cardboard paper down on the back cement step and went inside to answer the phone. I walked up to the cardboard and looked at the one butterfly who he had just pinned to the large paper. It was still moving about so I reached down and touched it on the wing causing one of the pins to fall out. It started flying around and around trying to get away but it was still pinned by the one wing with the other straight pin. Finally it's wing broke off and the butterfly fell to the ground and just quivered.

I picked up the torn wing and the butterfly and I spat on it's wing and tried to get it to stick back on so it could fly away and be free before the house parent came back. But it would not stay on him.

The next thing I knew the house parent came walking back out of the back door by the garbage room and started yelling at me. I told him that I did not do anything but he did not believe me. He picked up the cardboard paper and started hitting me on the top of the head. There were all kinds of butterfly pieces going everywhere. He threw the cardboard down on the ground and told me to pick it up and put it in the garbage can inside the back room of the dormitory and then he left.

I sat there in the dirt, by that big old tree, for the longest time trying to fit all the butterfly pieces back together so I could bury them whole, but it was too hard to do. So I prayed for them and then I put them in an old torn up shoe box and I buried them in the bottom of the fort that I had built in the ground, out by the large bamboos, near the blackberry bushes.

Every year when the butterflies would return to the orphanage and try to land on me I would try and shoo them away because they did not know that the orphanage was a bad place to live and a very bad place to die.

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My moment of anxiety.

It’s psychologically proven that more than half of the population on Earth does not like examinations, tests, and quizzes. Me? Hell no! I dislike exams! Here’s why.

Few months back, in 23 March 2011, SPM results day. It was dooms day for many hopeless students, like me. That morning, I felt so unprepared to receive my SPM slip. I was nervous. Too nervous, I started panicking in my room. I had no idea what my results would look like. Bits and pieces of old memories came back to me. Language papers were normal. Math & science papers were hard but not too hard that I couldn’t handle. Moral & History papers were the killers. I hate these two subjects. Without studying them, I had to crap throughout those papers. True story. I knew I badly screwed up those papers. I could feel the presence of fear in me.

A knock came by my room. It was my mother. Knowing that she would start her crap in front of me, I dared not to open the door. I couldn’t face my mother at all. In fact, my mother’s voice was already all over my head. Her nagging voice kept repeating in my head like a spoiled MP3 player stuck on replay. However that morning was different, all she said was “Be happy for whatever you will get. Everything will be fine”. I was surprised. And there she went away. Those words made me calm and felt better. That’s why people say that mothers have the natural ability to calm their children.

Eventually I went back to school. The hall was full with ex-form 5 students. After months being separated from my friends, memories of school life gave me a nostalgic vibe. There was so much to catch up with my classmates, teachers and everyone. Everyone was chatting cheerfully together in their most comfortable way. Then soon, it was 11 in the morning. Everyone had to line up according to their respective classes.

Finally, the moment of truth was just seconds away. The fear was still filling me up like crazy. My heart was pumping like it was above 130 bpm. Sweat won’t stop trickling down from the back of my spine. Waiting in line, I could see some of my friends who already got their slips. There were sad faces, disappointed faces, satisfied faces, happy faces and masked faces from those who did not want to show their true emotions. It was my turn. My Hands and legs were trembling uncontrollably. Heavy-heartedly, I reach out both my hands to my class teacher to receive my results slip. After receiving it, I tucked it into my bag and quickly walked away. Thanks to my mother’s encouragement, I put myself together and pulled the slip out and took a look. There was a B+. It was a total disappointment. My heart finally calm down. Thank God. Anxiety was over. I was disappointed and sad but life must continue