Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson once said that "life is the greatest journey we will ever be on and time is the companion that goes with us on this journey. It reminds us to cherish each moment, because it will never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we have lived". Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus. There is so much in the world for us all if we only have the eyes to see it, and the heart to love it, and the hand to gather it ourselves. We must be glad of life because it gives us the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars. We only live once, but if we work it right, once is enough. Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways so we have to love madly everything that shines on this world, because other life is stranger to us. We have to write in our heart that every day is the best day of the year.

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breaths away.

Adolescence

The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy, but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain and the ambition thick-sighted. Adolescence is a time between parental protection and personal responsibility, between life stage managed by grown-ups and life privately held. It is the time to enlarge the natural sentiments of pity, friendship and generosity, the time to develop an understanding of human nature and the varieties of human character, the most beautiful part of our life when we feel like a child and an adult at the same time. Adolescence is once in life and it is the best period in which we receive the first lessons of destiny. It's like a dream from which we don't want to wake up. Adolescence is the time in life when girls quit believing in fairy tales and start to believe in love and boys stop asking where they came from and start refusing to tell where they were going. A normal adolescent is so restless and dreamy and awkward that he can mange to injure his knee- not playing basketball, not playing football- but by falling off his chair in the middle of history class. If will ask any elder person what is adolescence for them, we will probably hear histories on themes like the first time in the first class, the first "five", the first "two", the first campaign at cinema, on the dances, the first fight, the first high-heeled shoes, the first slow dance, the first kiss, the first "I love". This is the time in our lives where we experience things for the first time. And it is valid, that in adolescence we only start to learn the world, we open a lot of new things, not clear, at times shocking, but also surprising and fine.

It is possible to tell, that it is a long, training to an expedition. We study thoroughly district, a route, study plans of action, find out about possible obstacles and think out ways to resist to elements. We build, equip the ship to which long navigation is necessary. This ship should sustain numerous storms, avoid reefs and not to sit on a bank. And we are the captain of this ship hastening on waves of life from a bay under the name "Youth".

Communication is a two-way process

There are four ways in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it. Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. Communication is the nucleus of our society. It is the golden ribbon that ties the world together. Communication is like depositing a part of you in another person. To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and we have to use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others. Communication is a two way process. First we have to learn the meaning of what we say, and then speak. We are like cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out. One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little. They act impulsively without thinking. A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood. Due to communication we can say to the others magic words like I'm sorry, or I love. All of life is a risk; in fact we're not going to get out alive. Casualness leads to casualties. Communication is the ability to affect other people with words.