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Justin Vera Ms. Katie Jones Eng. 210 June 7, 2018 Who is a Hero? Our fascinations, what are they? Nature? The Seven Wonders of the World? The opposite sex? The arts? Actually we all have one innate fasciation that overlooks them all. Heroes! The guys and gals in capes that soar in the heavens and stop burning buildings, and save innocent kitty’s out of trees. Yet who truly is a hero? The dictionary defines one as “a man of distinguished courage or ability, admired for his brave deeds and noble quality.” However, we are looking for the definition of who is a hero for us. Batman? No, he may be a DC hero, but he is not what comes to mind. The punisher? Still not what I have in mind. Thor? Close, his long blond hair and his movies in the marvel cinematic universe are cool, but not what I am seeking. So…Who is a hero? The answer may shock you… YOU ARE! Each and every one of you brilliant students here at (High school’s name) are a hero. Now, you are currently questioning me as to why I ...

This is the 100th post on my blog. I didn't get it in time for last year. It took me so long to write this up. I had no idea what I want to do or get done this year. I still kind of don't. For the first few days of this year I was considering doing a full reboot. I was considering deleting this blog and my YouTube channel. Maybe I still might. If you're reading this in the future then I decided to keep them. This year's goals are a bit more for myself. Here they are:  Sleep earlier and wake up earlier.  Lately I feel I have been staying up super late. One day I couldn't sleep. I feel like its slowly killing me.  My plan is to sleep at 10 pm and wake up at 6 am. Lose weight.  I am currently at the heaviest most unhealthy weight I have ever been at 327.4lbs.  I bought a digital scale last year. My plan is to weigh myself daily, diet, exercise and sleep better.   Find a job.  While I am writing this I do have a job at a call center. The workplace its...

This year I had set a couple goals, here is the post:  https://verajm.blogspot.com/2022/03/this-years-goals.html This year I had intended to:  Get to 100 blog posts  This is post #99, the next post is going to be 2023's goals Get to 100 videos on YouTube I did!  Plus I ended the year at 68 subscribers. If you want to check out my channel here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/@verajustin9 Learn to drive I sort of did. I didn't get my license, but I could drive a motorcycle and I drove a couple vans and pickups around the school.  Bike to Cayo  I did! Bike to all the archeological sites in Belize  I fell short. So far I have been to the Benque site, Xunantunich and Cahal Pech)  Publish a book  Not yet. I'm still where I was last time, I haven't made any progress in this area. 

Retirement  Monica Sok  When he becomes a monk, he says I will no longer be his daughter.  To one another, we would be people. Strangers.  But what if I have children? They will not be your grandchildren?  He pauses, considering, then grips the wheel and keeps driving.  I don’t visit him enough and when I do, I never cook for him.  Imagine his monkhood. I would have to give him more respect  as a stranger. His head shaved every three weeks.  No one is allowed to touch a monk’s head. But I am the only one  who massages my father’s temples before he goes to bed.  If I am no longer his daughter, what will I offer him then? about this poem “We all have private languages to provoke our loved ones. Once, my father made the hollow threat of estrangement with the possibility of pursuing a monastic life during his retirement. For thirty years, he had worked as a welder making parts for agricultural machinery. While adjusting to this signific...

It's been a year and ten days since I have been dating my first girlfriend. It's been a great year! We began messaging on Facebook. I invited her to come to a mass on Sunday at JPII. We met and instantly clicked. Ever since we've been getting to know each other, and I've done so many things that I had never thought I would. It's been an amazing experience! I'm looking forward to spending many more years with her. One year together! To us and many more years to come! 

 I slipped. My hands flailed upward as I tried to regain my balance. I looked down at my feet to see that the floor had a shiny liquid on it's surface. I stooped down for a closer look. There I saw that the substance that had made me lose my balance was a dark crimson. My heart sank as I knew what I had slipped on was a pool of blood. It's source I was unaware of.  I felt my face very moist and thought that all the walking had brought up a sweat. I instinctively wiped my brow with my hand and felt more moisture added onto my face. I looked at my had which was cloaked in blood. My breathing got faster and louder. The rusty smell entered my nose as I looked around and saw no one. I wiped my hand on my pants and lifted my shirt to wipe my face. Not able to see much further ahead I kept walking in the dark.  I became more aware of the crunching my feet had on the ground as I paced forward so I began slowing down. A faint noise in the dark came. Indistinguishable and foreign, ...

 Congratulations to Therese & Russell Smith on their wedding day. Here are some pics I liked.