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My mantra/essential truth is, "Life is as kind as you let it be". Although this mantra is not very long, it's importance and meaning is. I feel a very strong connection towards this quote because it is completely right. It is the same with people too, if you are nice to them, they are nice to you, so why would it be different with life? If you don't do good things in your life, if you do not follow the law, or help people in need, at some point the infamous "life" will come back to "bite" you. This saying is important to me because I believe that I must work on being a better person, and these few words inspire me to do just that.
In my life, there is only one event that strikes a significant feeling in me. A few months ago, a few days prior to my fifteenth birthday I was watching a documentary on a family that was broken apart because of their drunk of a father and their mother who was too scared of him to do anything. The children were being beaten whenever they didn't do something that their father asked of them. The fact that these kind of things happen while I am sheltered away in my home in Los Angeles is not okay with me. I want to be able to help, to be able to make a difference in their lives and everyone else's that is being treated like that. This is relatable to my mantra because if I were able to help them, maybe in someway they could help me, to be a better person, to be thankful for what I have, and to allow life to be as kind to you as you let it be.Throughout class this semester, we have addressed many problems and social injustices in today's society. This mantra, my mantra could be the solution to many of them. If people believed that if you were kind in your life, your life and everything in it would be kind right back to you.

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Although I looked up this mantra, it really spoke to me, starting with the first sentence; "Life isn't predictable." This shows that life is the equivalent of a TV show like THE WALL in which a ball falls and gravity takes its course and we can do nothing to control it.
"Life isn't predictable. The wiser we are and the wilder the pursuits, the more we embrace this essential truth."

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"Life's as kind as you let it be."
This quote is also important to me because it is saying that what you do in your life, and how you treat it, will overall affect how you live it and what kind of experiences you get to take part in, positive or negative.

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This semester, my first ever at FSHA was a great opportunity for me to learn more about myself. Thanks to FSHA and the sisterhood here, I feel  like I am accepted and it makes me happy to see everyone acting as one big, very big, family.
Another thing I learned about myself was the amount of stress and work that I could handle. The transition to high school was relatively easy in the beginning, but further down the road it got more and more challenging. I learned that I can handle a large workload and that if I work hard enough, I can accomplish anything.

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"A great accomplishment shouldn't be the end of the road, just the starting point for the next leap forward."
-Harvey Mackay

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My perspective on faith has significantly changed over the course of the semester. At the beginning of the semester, I was not sure who God was, or what I believed exactly. Although I am still unsure of these things now, I believe that I will never truly understand everything about my spiritual journey and my faith.

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"Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see."
-Hebrews 11:1

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Due to this class, I have definitely seen a growth in my behavior and in my faith journey. Over the course of this semester, I believe that I have maintained a hard-working and positive attitude. Although I have pretty challenging classes and was stressed for the majority of the semester due to the amount of attention the classes demanded of me, I got through it without overlooking my values. I made sure to follow the golden rule: to due unto others as you wish to be done unto you, and to just be a nice person overall

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FORGIVENESS - I could impact others with my faith by showing how I am a forgiving person, and that even if something horrible happens to you, you have the power to be the bigger person, and to use your power to forgive.
SPREADING KINDNESS/ HOPE - By spreading kindness and hope you could help people to believe in themselves and to inspire them to be the best that they can possibly be.