Time

Information Technology High School
Ms. Hyde
Christopher Ku
May 7, 2008

Time

As I sit here, pondering about what to write, or how to start, a million things have went through my mind, but none to really speak of myself since everything I’ve been through has transformed me into whom I am today. Sure, they’ll be a big event or ‘turning point’ to what a person can admit reality has set forth them however, I may be hypocritical in stating how reality has kicked in. To me, it’s not an event, but rather a quote and only one quote seems to actually stick with me as far as I can possibly think of. That memorable quote was stated by my sophomore year summer school shop teacher Mr. Lazar, once said was ‘’Time is your worst enemy’’. Being that said, I think that it’s quite true. Time has always been there for us. Time to me, is just a deadline in life. Sooner or later, ‘’Time’s up’’. At that moment, I thought that it wasn’t true until I realize that time is a factor that we cannot control. If we were to control it, then we’d just play the role of God. In the sense of how it changed my perspective, I realized that I had to fight against time. It’s never going to be on my side.

Realizing how it’s against me, I could never really have a plan. As each second ticks, it’s only another victory for time itself. My only option is to plan ahead of time. Play the game that there’s no controller to. Just recently in the beginning of junior year, did I realize that I had to plan my next step. To me, that next step was only to plan the course of my next five years. Of course an average person would just say that it’s an absurd thing to do and to just worry about what you have now. Usually most people would agree with that average ‘Joe’ but, I believe that we should plan our next step because if we can’t control our future, then it serves no purpose. ‘Planning’ ahead of time allow us to have minor control over time, because we can’t go wrong with meeting the ‘deadline’ if we planned ahead, yes?

Throughout my life after eighth grade, I started to plan ahead of time socially however, those never turned out well. After all those moments of failed attempts, I thought about planning my life academically. Though my life isn’t consisted of ‘achievements’, I can’t help but to just gather up my scraps of failures and to make something of it. In life, the only person you can really worry about is just yourself. Everyone else around you won’t stand there forever. The only problem which we all have is that we always depend on someone else. No matter how big or small the favor is we feel the need to have someone there. It only foreshadows our weakness in the future. How much longer do we need to be held by the hand and treated like infants? When would most of our society realize that we shouldn’t worry about others but ourselves? I know it may sound greedy but truth is, if we don’t isolate ourselves from others we won’t advance with finding ourselves. Being unique is what really counts but, when people have role models it’s not who they are anymore. They become someone else who’s lived their life and had their share. Basically they’re just conformists trying to adapt into society. That’s where time is wasted amongst.

Every single moment of our life, time’s just adding another tally to ‘his’ wall. A fraction of time is all it takes to change something. It’s like an Olympic silver medalist who was a fraction of a second away from achieving that gold medal. Therefore the littlest things in life do have more meaning than the big things at least that’s how I perceive things. Now I just have to ‘plan’ for college, because it can alter my life’s outcome due to time’s game. It’ll be a victory that I’ll obtain.

Wake Up

As most of you know, this situation has been brought to attention many times, however most people still don’t do anything about it. Ironically, they still complain about it. Many people are still oblivious to the truth. Things around us are signaling that the way the environment is disheveled is incompatible with how we react to the signs. Hopefully environmentalists and world leaders would compromise to delay global warming in some way being that it can’t be stopped. We should all be moral and vindicate going ‘green’. Many people view it differently though. The stubborn mind would just deplore with that idea and take things for granted and we all know that most people have skeptical beliefs since global warming is still a theory. Pretty soon all our world supplies would be depleted.
Everyday we keep hearing ‘’ let’s all go ‘green’.’’ Or we’ll see advertisements on streets, subways, buses or media about being eco-friendly. It’s all for a cause, but honestly it does get annoying how people feel as if they’re impervious to the truth. Truth is that we don’t really have enough time on our hands. We can’t stop global warming though, but the only other option is to delay it in some way as I’ve mentioned earlier. Every time you make a decision, it affects what’s going to happen. Documentaries such as ‘The 11th Hour’ or The Inconvenient Truth’ both provide messages for us and opens doors to our eyes. If we all were to just listen, then perhaps our narrow minds would be more dilated. In how it differs, is a question all on its own. The possibilities are endless though if we were open-minded about it.
Being that the United States are the number one country in consuming fossil fuel, we should do something about finding an alternative to consuming that kind of fuel. In my opinion, the attitude that most Americans feel is that our supplies of imported goods are abundant. If everyone were to do something to mitigate the situation, we wouldn’t have this nemesis. Perhaps, with future technology and research, we can consider turning the clock back a bit. What we did in the past, reflects what we did today and what we did today reflects our future.
Before the theory of Global Warming was only hypothetical, now it is very serious. The facts given from scientists to prove that the ozone layer is being by all the carbon dioxide we use, also known as the Greenhouse Effect has been nullified by the government to prevent people from panicking. Now, the fear of global warming has augmented since the year 2003. Increasing global temperature will cause the sea level to augment, and is expected to increase the intensity of extreme weather events and to change the amount and pattern of precipitation. Other effects of global warming include changes in agricultural fields, trade routes, glacier retreat, specie extinctions and increase in the ranges of disease vectors, and could be deleterious to living things.
Our time of jubilation is going to come to an end because of the harms global warming is doing to the Earth. Global Warming does perpetual harms everyday, for example, about one milliliter of sea level increases everyday, and it is impervious to prevent it, eventually the Earth will flood. And since we all use automobiles for transportation, it releases to much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, causing the ozone layer to disperse. We should find a way to suppress the way we use our cars, to decrease the harms done to the ozone layer, and try not to be so diffident about the situation and keep our planet embellished.

Letter to the Speaker

Christopher Ku
43-34 46th Street
Woodside, NY 11377
February 13, 2008

Dear Speaker,
I admire the hardships of your journey as I read ''Ambush''. It must have been hard to hide the truth from your daughter of because of her young age. However, your actions were right, in a way that it may seem moral. It must have been hard to do, but his death was inevitable.
Thus, being in a war itself is very traumatizing where it can affect one's life socially, mentally and physically. Killing someone, is very hard to comprehend. Questions must've gone through your mind like, '' Am I a murderer?'' Questions like those are unanswered but only to one's self. Everyone interprets murderers differently.
I can't directly relate to what you've been through, but common sense can easily put me in your shoes. IT must've been perilous and fatigue, however i admire your bravery.
Sincerely,
Christopher Ku

''I am nobody, who are you?''

''I am nobody, who are you?''
-Emily Dickinson

I'm a unique person to myself at least thats how' i view it. I may not be perfect, nor far from how I perceive perfect, but I'm true to myself. I am whom I am. I'm viewed differently from many people. They may not all think the same about me but they all know me which would be a common ground amongst them. I already know who I am, therefore speaking of whom I am would be altered through other people. They might or not accept the fact of who I am because to them I'm someone else, but to me I'm just me.

"I never saw a wild thing feel sorry for it self. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough. Without ever having felt sorry for itself."

"I never saw a wild thing feel sorry for it self. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough. Without ever having felt sorry for itself."
-D.H. Lawrence

To me, my interpretation of the quote is self-pity where as one who does feel sorry for itself shall be greedy in what one desires.
Where as it's all about how big or small one's ego is. At times a person may not admit or accept the fact of giving in or knowing they're wrong due to their pride. Stubbornness can also lead one to not feel or let one change their perspective of how they view the world.