So, I just wrote a whole page (typed) in Spanish! WHOO-OOOO! Forget that it took me about three hours, or that every other word had to be looked up in the dictionary (I love wordreference!); I DID IT!!!!!! and IT FEELS GREAT!!!!!
Believe me, I usually don’t feel this way about homework. Grinding through math homework, for example, is simply tedious, and finishing brings no gratification save the ability to check it off my laundry list. Usually the feeling accompanying completion of work resembles relief, not jubilancy.
So why am I so happy about this “accomplishment” which any well-off language student would snicker at? I believe that it is because it took me the whole three hours, because every other word had to be looked up. I worked obscenely hard on that measly page of foreign type, and now I’m feeling the self-gratification that comes from pouring your whole heart and soul into a project.
Earlier on this year my English class took a practice SAT essay with a prompt that asked “Do we value only what we struggle for?” If I was ever asked the same question again, I can assure you that my three hour long Spanish page would hold a star role in one of my body paragraphs. This accomplishment, though seemingly not a huge one, symbolizes my stake in hard work. I value effort more that anything, and challenging myself, as with this paper, creates my proudest moments.
Actually, I’d have to say that the proudest moment in my life occured when I was in preschool. I was out at recess when I felt a prick in my finger, looked down, and saw that a fat wooden splinter had wedged itself under my skin. Did I cry? No. Did I run to my teacher? No. Was I an invincible preschool-age Jackie? For the moment, yes! I made my way over to the play-structure, climbed aboard, and proceeded to pull out the splinter–with my bare hands!! No help, no tweezers, just me and my ity-bity fingers. Looking back, I see how insignificant this feat was, but at the time I was flooded with self-pride. You cannot imagine how proud of myself I was at that moment; it was…magical. (Oh…the good old days…)
So my message:
Love the little things, especially the little things you work hard for.
There've been 19 whole comments
2:53 pm on 5/25/2006 1. Toni
¡Felicidades!
7:47 pm on 6/1/2006 2. Marc C.
The small things truely are the most important. Well said…
6:30 pm on 6/5/2006 3. disdat
Wow, one whole page, did your mommy hold your hand? Awww, it’s so cute to see braggarts when they age.
5:02 am on 6/13/2006 4. Dave
I thought you said spider, now that would have been brave! Nice article though.
9:35 am on 7/20/2006 5. El Coolio
DISDAT, LOL, YOU ARE SO RIGHT, THIS BITCH IS STOOPID, YOUSE RULES HOMIE GEE.
9:16 pm on 8/12/2006 6. hello
totally love your message…
1:42 pm on 9/16/2006 7. Javier
Increible que estés tan contento por escribir español con el los plugins tan buenos que escribes!!! Te cambio mi español por tu programación…
Felicidades
12:56 pm on 9/27/2006 8. Cristobal Guerra
Hello i´m spanish from Madrid, contact me i can help you in any manner improving your spanish, and maybe you can help me in a essay translating that i´m doing…
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9:43 am on 2/5/2008 10. butter
great work
3:45 am on 5/4/2008 11. hit oranı
I thought you said spider, now that would have been brave! Nice article though.
3:46 am on 5/4/2008 12. temizlik
thanks
3:46 am on 5/4/2008 13. temizlik şirketleri
selm
3:47 am on 5/4/2008 14. nakiyat
thanks you cool blog
3:48 am on 5/4/2008 15. evden eve nakiyat
Increible que estés tan contento por escribir español con el los plugins tan buenos que escribes!!! Te cambio mi español por tu programación…
3:49 am on 5/4/2008 16. evden eve nakiyat
ıncreible que estés tan contento por escribir español con el los plugins tan buenos que escribes!!! Te cambio mi español por tu programación…
3:49 am on 5/4/2008 17. evden eve
thanks
5:59 am on 5/21/2008 18. firmalar
thanks you.
6:00 am on 5/21/2008 19. izmir evden eve
great work ..