Thursday, February 11, 2010

33. What favorite line from a movie speaks to your view of the world? Write it down. Begin a piece by explaining the context of the line in the movi

My mama always said “Life is like a box chocolate… you never know what you are going to get.” When it comes to this quote Forest Gump says it to a lady sitting at a bus stop because he was talking to the lady about issues in life that she had. The whole movie is a series of flashbacks to Forest sitting on this bench telling his life story. Each pahase of his life starts with him telling the listener My mama used to say…
This quote really reveals to a person that life has to be taken one day at a time. There is no way of knowing what is going to come next so you have to be happy with the surprises that you get. This quote really inspires me because I take life on one step at a time. The fact that I take all the seconds of the day as they come to me and try to enjoy them like I would a chocolate. Chocolate makes anything better.
Not only that but when I am driving I take every second to get to know my surroundings and to see what is coming next. You have to do this with your whole existence. Just like you never know what is coming next in a box of chocolate you never know what is coming next in life but hopefully you will remember to enjoy what God gives you.

Thursday, February 4, 2010

The last time that I saw my mother was 15 years ago

The last time that I saw my mother was 15 years ago and I don’t know where she is now. I have searched all over the country in every state that I think she might have moved too but there is no trace of her anywhere. I am not sure why she left me and my father and joined the circus but it is something that she always used to say when she was mad. “I am going to run away and join the circus” she would say. “I hope you will appreciate me then.” I never know why she thought that joining the circus would make us appreciate anything that she did. What did what I have to do with joining the circus anyway?

We went to the circus once when I was seven and she hated it. I loved all the noise and the smell of the popping corn and the animals and people moving back and forth through the big top. She hated it all and we never went to the circus again so why would she join the circus? The circus was in our town on the day she did not show up to pick me up at school. She never left a note or gave my father any idea that she was going away. She thought that her life was a big mess and that no one ever listened to what she was saying but I listened.

I am not sure where to look next but I have followed the circus all across the country and been to all of the shows in all of the cities and have never seen a sign of her. Could it be that she was in disguise? I searched the acrobats and the trapeze artists, the animal trainers and the circus clowns and there was no sign of her. After I gave up and went back home I kept sending letter to different circuses but still no luck. It has been fifteen years and I have searched every circus in the country. I am wondering did she really join a circus or was she just saying that.