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Opening the Jar of Life
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What exactly do we determine life to be? Life is a very broad and adventurous thing that has so many definitions and pathways to success and honor. I like to link the matters between honor, perception, belief in one’s self, and success as far as a standpoint of life. Life contains these principles because these are what make up life. Let’s first examine one of our first points.

Honor is a very big privilege that comes to an individual based on months and years of trust with another individual’s high, distinct quality of work regardless of the field. Honor is something that relates to life because honor is something that you deserve and earn in life and if you show this to one person, you will gain that from the other person thus leading to a happier and much more faithful life.

Perception is the way you are viewed by others in a wide arrange of manners. This is a key factor in life because the way people view you helps define who you are as a person, but you must be happy with who you are and how you have become that person. In what varying meaning or standpoint one may ask? Life fulfills the task and accomplishment of wanting to be accepted and liked by others. Having a good perception from others will not only boost your standing in the world, but also show to you that you are well liked and respected by your peers since you too, treat them with the other respect and perception that you want for yourself.

To have faith is an important key point regardless of matter. I don’t state this to get into an argument on the whole matter of ethics, but rather to state an important factor that is non-ethical. To believe in yourself literally means you can get up on that stage and present your heart away without having the fear of either being judged for your claims or the fear of being booed off due to fright. Believing in yourself is the only way you truly will expand and get to the next step in life and you must do this in order to really get far in life.

To wrap up, I come back to my first original point and once more talk about life. Life is so much bigger than a 4-letter term and it has endless possibilities. Life truly shows an

inspiration to all. It is a growing marvel for all and we all learn from one another to grow into something bigger and better. All of the components talked about before make up life, as we know it and we should be proud as humans on this fine planet to have this life. What we must now do is persevere and believe in these components in order to expand our future even farther than earth, our homeland. Get to work friends; we have a life to live.
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