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Personally, I write to inform. I write to make my ideas and beliefs heard. When writing I feel that I am in some way shape or form paying my debt to society. In a way we all owe society our voice. We owe society that chance to be heard, and through writing I feel that I can accomplish that. Writing is a form of expression that varies from person to person. ======

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Just as paintings or photography, writing is an art. Unique style that vary from person to person allow writing to stay interesting. Writing comes in so many different forms, so to say that all writing is the same, is to say that this world we live in is not diverse. ======

**__How do our family relationships shape us?__**
Family. When you were born, you were born into a family. Many families go under-appreciated. Love is what holds a family together. The love shared between family members s a bond that no matter how hard you try, can never be broken. A bond so strong that no even death can come between it. When asked by a younger sister or other family member that I don't get along with so well. "Do you love me?", my response is always "I love you with all m heart, but that doesn't mean I like you. My relationship with my older brother, Deshawn, has in fact taught me the most lessons out of all my other siblings. the main lesson that I learned from my brother was to not always believe what people say, sometimes you have to form your own opinion and trust it. My brother was adopted, and at first I did not feel as if he was my real brother. As a child I can remember teasing my brother about him not being blood and his hard childhood prior to him entering our family. He had life hard. Deshawn had been born addicted to Heroine and Crack Cocaine and he was abused severely by his birth mother. Me constantly picking at and annoying him wasn't making life any easier for him. I can remember one time when I overheard my brother and his friend talking about what he went through as a child. Prior to overhearing their conversation I was naive to what my brother had gone through. It was at that moment that I stopped bothering and picking at him about his adoption. I realized that bothering him about something that was a milestone in his life was not right. I decided to satisfy the urge to bother him, by annoying him with what a normal little sister would, like prank jokes and blaming him for things that I did. When we were younger my brother and I were very close, but as he grew older we grew apart. He began to change. At my age I was unable to understand the changes he was going through. It would not be until I was 13 that I would fully understand that my brother was homosexual. I love my brother with all my heart and figuring that out made me want to never speak to him again. It just didn't make sense to me. To this day I still do not believe that my brother is truly what he says he is. I still and will always believe that he is just confused and needs to come to his senses, but in the midst of me doing that I accept him for who he wants to be at this point in time. I am not saying that I am against who he is choosing to be, but I know my brother extremely well and when he looked me in the face and said to me "I am gay," something just didn't sit well with me. His voice seemed unsure and it is for that specific reason that I do not believe he is what he says he is. I love him to death, but right now I don't like the way he being and doing things that are not himself.



**__Standing up for Yourself.__**
Question. What is the point of standing up for something, if the people of who you are standing up against can't understand you? To stand up for anything, whether it be big or small takes an amount of courage. Personally, there are literally hundreds of things that I can think of that I believe in. But when my beliefs are challenged I become offended, or in some cases understanding and corrected. In my own defense I might argue with the person or person or people challenging me. In said argument I would pull facts and anything else that in my mind would help me prove my point. But then again, I do not always argue. I only argue when it is with a person that I feel an argument would be appropriate with. These people would include a friend, sibling, or person that I knew would not feel disrespected by an argument. Th e scale of the argument would depend on the I am speaking with. If I were to eel that the person deserved more respect and courtesy, I would not argue. I would simply voice my opinion and attempt to prove my point. After a while if things don't go as I had planned, I leave the situation alone. I leave feeling satisfied that my opinion was at least heard by the other party. In some cases being verbal is not necessary. Actions can speak louder than words. Simple things such as a refusal, agreement or remaining neutral can prove my point. Some people hear actions louder than words, and for these people I would physically stand up for what I believe in. The way that I stand up for what I believe in varies from person to person. It is because I want to ensure the fact that I am heard, that I take the time to customize my medium of standing up to the parties listening.



__Free write__
So many people feel as though they deserve respect, but they have no idea how to give it. I never seem to get the same in return. If I treat you with the utmost respect, I would expect the same from you. If I were to sit with a group of my friends and talk about you, I wouldn't be surprised if i found out you did the same. It's the golden rule people. It was was taught to us as children, and now we have forgotten it. Am I the only one who still lives by it? In today's world so many people just do whatever they want and expect their actions not to be acted on by other people. Eyes and minds are everywhere. If you choose to do something evil and devious, please, expect someone to do the same to you. It baffles me when someone feels that they are the only person in the and can do whatever, and expect the rest of us to go along with it.