Flemington High School - Memories Yearbook (Flemington, WV)

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 Each of us has a place in this world. We have en put here to fill that place, and we really want to|f] 3o a god job. We do not have to run to a neighbor and ask if we re filling our place as ve should. If we are or are |not doing the best we can, we will know ourselves. Not only should we strive to do our job, but we Iwant to leave an example for others to follow. V e can Leave this good example oy working hard, being honest, land spreading kindness through the world. If we take our every task seriously and do our l ery best, we will be setting a good example for those who simply refuse to work or those who will not accent resonnsibility. V e can make our work fun. Maybe fou have heard some Deople say-- Dnn't you get tired af working? You have to do the same thing over and aver again. Well, we wnA't get tired if we are jonstantly trying to find new methods or always trying :o improve upon those we already are using. If we ould consider work a mondtony because we have to work iveryday, I am afraid there would be very few other :hings we would do for the same reason. After all— Isn’t life just a repetition? We get up each morning, i e must dress, we eat three meals a day, vie undress it nig! t and we go to. bed... See--? the same thing | ver and over, day in and day out. Honesty has a great part to play in our journey hrough this world. Just the feeling that we have not heated but have always played fair is enough to make lift our heads up high and walk proudly through ife. If we are honest with ourselves and honest with thers, we can always have a clear conscience. From the time we were very small, we can remember ur parents saying-- Always be kind to others. And hat advice will follow us all the way through life, here is something about a kind person which does omething to us. V e never forget a kindness. Life s so short, that we cannot be unkind and expect to ind hapoiness ourselves. We might at times forget dace in the world, and say we don't care for fcthers, but that is entirely the wrong attitude. Illl our kindness, honesty, and ha d work will bring I is a -’eward in the end, much too g eat for us to l.magine. Sometimes when we aren't in the best of hea- l.th, we might be tempted to be unkind to others, but Itow thankful v e will be if we will smile through our | gublesan r g yigj jyjgj 4 mM ir

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Regardless how we might feel sorry for ourselves, I know we could find others in the world who are in a po sition much more dreadful than our own. We can't al- ways look at our own troubles, there are others who have as many, if not more, troubles than we have. So kindness is something we can't have too much of, in- stead, we are lacking in kindness. In our everyday experience we have met people who arealways worried about the lives of others. That 's alright, if we just worry with them, but we are all wrong when we insist on spreading from one person to another anything said about any individual or indi- viduals. Remember, we are not too perfect that we can't stand some reforming. So when we feel the urge to spread gossip about others we should look at our own selves and see how may we improve ourselves. Us- ually those who are always spreading gossip about others are those who should bexashamed of how they themselves are filling their place in the world. If we were to see the grade card of our lives, we might be disappointed to think that we failed in so many subjects. Thats what we are trying to overcome We don't want to be put as de from the others and be considered a failure . We want to be on the top of I achieve this goal, we must put forth every effort that we can possibly gather together. It's worth working for and how proud we will be when we notice that our grade card of life reads 100% for each undertaking we have ever tried to master. With an average like that we won't have any doubt as to how we stand in our place in the world. The world doesn't owe us a living, We own the world a deb' of gratitude, for the privilege of being here to make something of ourselves It is our duty for us to make something of ourselves. Tj- ore is nothing like an edu cation to help us get a sfei t. With an education, we 1L1Lliiimi have the basis of all successes. Education is a must j do we should not make the mistake of ignoring this fa When we gegin to sum up all the advantages in thi world, we begin tosee that with only a little effort o™-. our part, we can prove to the world th'-t we are tha k- fin, ful for the opportunity to show how very well we can Ijpj fill OUR PLACE IN THE ’“ORLD. a xr jr