The Fifth Agreement By Miguel Ruiz And Janet Mills

While growing up we encounter many problems in our lives. The book “The Fifth Agreement” by Miguel Ruiz, Jose Ruiz and Janet Mills explains five agreements that if applied to your life can help make your life better. It can help you make the life that you want to live by making you aware of how you think. It can help you look differently at what you think is a problem or something negative and teach you how to look at it differently so it is not a problem. In the words of Johnny Depp “the problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Do you understand?” In this essay I will discuss the five agreements and how I have learned them while growing up.

The first agreement is to “be impeccable with your words” (M. Ruiz, J. Ruiz and Mills 27). The authors explain, “be impeccable with your words really means never use the power of the word against yourself” (M. Ruiz, J. Ruiz and Mills 38). I understand this to mean that all the negative things that I not only say to myself, but to others as well, only can harm me. I am the only person that can determine my happiness by understanding this concept.

They started to act as if the earth was shaking beneath them. Then they yelled at me saying that if I were not so large I would not be causing the ground to shake. I continued to walk home ignoring them. As I walked into my house and up to my room I thought to myself, those boys are right, they have to be. My friend Cameron was one of them. He would not say something like that to me if he did not mean it. I am fat. The following day I ran into Cameron he acted as if nothing had happened. I did not want to talk to him. He asked why I was ignoring him. I told him how I felt. He apologized. Cameron said that he was not proud of the choice that he had