You may think I’m just a 14-year-old

girl with authentic black hair, and blue- green eyes

But I know I’m more

way more

I’m not a book or a chair

or even a cup of water

although I may need it

I am a Rose

A beautifully blossomed  rose

When my pedals are wilted, brown, and falling on the cold, hard floor

sad and slowly dying

I have thorns very sharp ones I use for defence

sometimes I hurt people but not on purpose.

when I get the right amount of nourishment and water

I perk up

I am no longer a wilted, brown rose

Each individual red pedal represent the wilted, brown days I’ve lived

But the water

oh the water that makes me the beautiful flower I am

Disregarding the sharp, violent thorns

I am a nice flower

sitting in people’s homes

their eyes glistening

watching

The 14-year-old

with black hair, and blue-green eyes

slowly die

Does Sam ever get this steam blowing, red faced fury as the sits at home getting nagged at by her “almost psychopathic, over controlling, helicopter parents” for the “F” she made on her final report card. We sometimes get frustrated and feel like screaming until our vocal cords rip in two. Although we as people sometimes feel like a raging monster there are reasons they should control our anger. The importance of dealing with extreme emotion is so we can grow as a person, and can make better decisions.

It’s very important that anyone deals with emotion, because it allows anyone to grow as a person. For example, I have recently been on the high school majorette line, I know the middle school line looks up to us high school twirlers, because anything we do they follow. So, being a “perfect” leader is important to be so younger peers have a better experience, and they learn from what “the older girls do.” In addition, being an angry person all the time doesn’t help the people that look up to anyone. When the world seems to be crashing in around that overworked, single mother, trying to support her kids on a minimum wage job. She might be tempted to lose her temper, yell at the kids, slam the dinner plates on the table and shout, “There’s your dinner!” However, being angry doesn’t always make us lose our temper, but when it does it’s important to control emotions so that peers don’t act that way, because “mommy does it.”

Another reason it’s important to deal with extreme emotion is so people can make better decisions. For example, the almost 15-year-old “matured” 9th grader, Garrett, is in an argument with his immature 11-year-old stepbrother, Owen. Garrett knows if he doesn’t control his anger the can, and will turn into the hulk, but instead Garrett decides to talk through it with Owen, so that he doesn’t get grounded later when his hard working parents get home from work. In addition, a salesman named Bill showed up at his office after a devastating rejection from the biggest company in South America. As Bill walked in he sees his boss sitting, and waiting to hear the “good news,” but instead Bill had to tell his boss what actually happened. Instead of yelling at Bill for not doing his absolute best while trying to make this important sale, Bills boss talked to Bill calmly about the situation, so maybe Bill will be a little more motivated to do his best his next try. In other words, whether it’s being in arguments, or not getting something right, it’s always important to control anger for later on in the future.

Therefore, when getting that steam blowing, red faced fury it’s important to control anger for the better, or in other words, so we can grow as a person, and can make better decisions.

Angelica is driving home past midnight from her Miranda Lambert concert, and she’s ready to be home in the big, warm, cozy bed, but what she doesn’t know is I20 is very busy, and her tiredness is already distracting enough. Angelica’s phone makes a loud “DING”, and she looks down to see who texted her, right as she looked down she got rear ended. There are positive and negative sides to the new astonishing technology we call smart phones. People’s lives have been affected by cellphones by increasing laziness, and quick effective communication.

Statistics show that people are more likely to become a “couch potato” if you are a smart phone user. For example Los Angeles Times wrote an article about the laziness increasing in smartphone users. Frequent cell phone users are far more likely to forgo or disrupt physical exercise, and scored lower on fitness assessments than peers who use cell phones less frequently. In addition, after a long day at school or work people want to crawl up in bed, and that’s usually what they do. The problem with that is since they are already in bed “why get up to do anything?” most people would say, but say you get hungry and you don’t want to get up? what do you do you use your handy-dandy smart phone, and hit up a homie on the other side of the house to get you food, instead of getting it yourself.

Another way cell phones have changed our lives is giving us quick effective communication. For example, Jarron is locked out of his house, and his mom Sharon is working the night shift at Good Shepherd Medical Center. With the new Iphones there is something called Imessage, with Imessage anyone with that can tell when the receiver has received the message, when they have read the message, and when they are typing back. In addition, Jarron gets in a car wreck where he hydroplanes into the car in front of him, but there is no one around to call for help, so Jarron pulls out his Iphone 6 plus, presses the lock button so is phone is light up with the bright colors of his lock screen and slides to the left, after sliding to the left instead of pressing more than one button he goes to the bottom left corner and presses the “Emergency call button” to save a bunch of typing.

Therefore, smartphones have made our lives better in negative and positive ways by increasing laziness, and giving us quick effective communication.