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The past is something that most people tend to wish they can change. If someone asked another
if they would rather look in the future or change the past. They would choose to change the past.
In the book Kirk Kark, the novelist plays the past to be significant to the present. My past plays a
big role in having perseverance in many ways possible. When I was 7 years old I was a ballerina
for 1 year. But after months later I quit because the dances were getting difficult for me to
manage. In 9th grade I also quit the volleyball team in the end of the season because I was
frustrated in the spiking position. When I quit the team I remembered how I also quit dancing.
Two things that I love the most. From that day on I set goals and rules for myself that, I will
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That I will never show weakness to the
people who act as if they care. I will never let myself down because that is the biggest flaw you
can learn to do. Now in the present, I starting playing my favorite sport, volleyball. At times
when I want to give up I remind myself that I am strong. That I have perseverance. I also have a
new hobby which is to write poetry and has not yet given up on myself. one shall not wish to
change anything about the past because everything happens for a season. Let life happen and
watch the wonderful person you end up
failing, when the truth of the matter is that the fact that we have to blame
The fourth Chapter of Estella Blackburn’s non fiction novel Broken lives “A Fathers Influence”, exposes readers to Eric Edgar Cooke and John Button’s time of adolescence. The chapter juxtaposes the two main characters too provide the reader with character analyses so later they may make judgment on the verdict. The chapter includes accounts of the crimes and punishments that Cooke contended with from 1948 to 1958. Cooke’s psychiatric assessment that he received during one of his first convictions and his life after conviction, marring Sally Lavin. It also exposes John Button’s crime of truancy, and his move from the UK to Australia.
As a child I was not in to many sports or involved in school activities. Going through high school I figured out that being involved in a sport or a school club would make my high school experience better. The first and only sport I chose to do was track. Track changed my whole high school experience and life. I learned to never give up, and it kept me out of trouble throughout my four years of high school.
such as important people, mistakes you made, things left undone or words left unsaid guilt, regret etc.
Can you turn back time and what happened in the past? Turning back time is impossible. Acknowledging what happened is apart of life. You can wish and hope things will be the same, but in the end they never will be. Life happens for a reason and you can’t just ignore the past.
My traits have led me to my current path in ways unimaginable. My dancing skills allow me to persevere through difficult challenges, be more flexible, and adapt to change more efficiently, while my quiet confidence allows me to be more humble. With the help of these talents and traits and the lessons I learned from them, I am able to be the most excellent version of myself and make the best out of my life. In the present day, I can assess how these traits help me in school, at home, and in the dance studio. Ultimately, possessing these talents and traits, I have the potential to go far and be successful in the
Dancing was always there for me since the beginning. My mom was on her way to be a singer. She gave up the record
The past most definitely affects the future, from one word to an action can change
At the age of four, dancing was something my body did on its own and, there was not that much mental effort being put in to do it. I recall turning five or so, when I finally recognized dance as something concrete. It was Barbie in the Nutcracker; a movie based on the classical Russian compositions and original ballet of The Tale of the Nutcracker. As soon as that movie was presented to me, my parents enrolled me in the dance studio next door. For me, it was a dream come true and luckily the studio was just a small walk away. Jazz, ballet, and tap were part of my curriculum, but back then not all of the vocabulary stuck with me. That studio was the beginning of my love for the arts because there was dance, music, the clothes we would wear (class attire and performance attire), and the posters that accompanied the shows we were presenting that semester. I remember there being this bin where there were all these shoes of all types. These shoes were pairs that no longer fit the owner, and I thought to myself how blessed I was because I didn’t have to buy shoes all the time. The thing was that if you took a pair of shoes from the bin, you would have to exchange them for a pair of your own shoes that didn’t fit you. Now that I look back, that helped so much financially because I was constantly growing and breaking in my
Again in middle school, I took a dance class. I wanted to become a dancer very much. I learned ballet, hip-hop, jazz, and many other types. I didn’t have much skill in that area. I wasn’t as near as talented as the other girls, and the occasional guy. I quit after a year. I don’t have any regrets in that area, none what so ever.
Growing up I could never find another activity that I was talented at, enjoyed, and loved doing other than dancing. I have been dancing since I was three years old. I have taken almost every style of dance including ballet, tap, jazz, hip-hop, and contemporary just to name few. Dance was the one of the only things I spent my time doing. Between the solos, practices, and competitions I really just did not have time for anything else. I loved dancing but I always felt like there was something that I was missing out on. I always felt like I should expand my horizons and try something different. Unexpectedly, my junior year in high school I discovered my other passion.
allow us to go back before a situation happened, or to go back before we did not know
I did competitive dancing from age 3 to age 13, and I was very passionate about dancing. I had become very close to my dance family and all the teachers. For the most part, these people had been around me my whole life and watched me grow up. In 8th grade, I had to make a choice between volleyball and dancing. My schedule wouldn’t allow for both, and I was honestly heartbroken and torn. Dancing was my way out of all the things that stressed me out in life. If I was having a bad day, I relied on dance class to help escape life or bad things, and to focus on something I love and be around people that make me happy. On the other hand, I loved volleyball and was passionate about it. Although I had just started the sport, I loved everything about it and the way it was executed.
But then I moved houses so I needed to find a new studio closer to where I lived. And once I found that studio my sister and I fell in love with it. We did competition so we would go and compete against other studios and our studio did about three competitions a year. A few years later when I was a sophomore in High School, I had my first solo ever. I was so excited that I got the opportunity to have it but I was so scared. I was scared because I was going to have to dance by myself and I wasn’t used to it at all. I was very fortunate to get a solo in my sophomore year. I knew that I had to work harder than a lot of people because I wasn’t able to dance every day like everyone else did. I could only dance about two days a week but it was for about four hours each time. I could only dance for two days because I had a part time job at a toy store. I worked very hard that year in dance that year so u could become better and more confident in what I was doing. Even though I have been dancing for basically my whole life I was still very nervous and didn’t want to compete because I thought that everyone was better than me and that is another reason why I had to work harder. It took me a while to become confident in what I was doing. But when I was with my teacher before every competition he always convinced me that I could do it like everyone else.
The hindsight bias, as defined in the article Hindsight Bias and Developing Theories of Mind by Andrew N. Meltzoff and Geoffrey R. Loftus, occurs when “people armed with advanced knowledge of an outcome overestimate the likelihood of that particular outcome, in essence claiming that they ‘knew it all along’” (Meltzoff). People who are victims of this very common bias can be drawn to the idea of going to the past to fix all of their problems because they live in the present. Knowing what the present holds, people believe that if they went back in time, they could change the future and, in turn, have a better