The Path of Positivity By: Brandon A. Webley

Chapter 20: Destination

Now you've made it to the Path of Positivity! Welcome to the land of happiness. You're the one who's in control of the wheel when entering. In this part, you get to plan out everything how you wanted. Before ending this journey, let's talk about everything we've learned on how to be positive. What I'm doing is take the details in each chapter and go over what we discussed about.

Let's start off with our little quote and the friendly reminder we discussed about awhile ago in chapter 19. Before making it to the Path of Positivity, we talked about a famous quote from a movie most of us have seen and heard before. I will now recite the quote again from the movie we've seen. When Tom Hanks starred in Forrest Gump, his character who's the main role once said: "Life's like a box of chocolates, you'll never know what you're gonna get." What's the lesson we're learning about from the quote? What we're learning is that life's full of surprises, you'll never know what to expect.The only thing we can do is to make the most out of it. Now time for that reminder we spoke about. The reminder I talked about was on adversity. Adversities are difficulties or obstacles we deal with in our everyday lives. In the reminder I discussed, I discussed how a story made an impact in my life. The story I heard was the carrot, the egg or the coffee bean. In this story, it was about making choices and the theme was adversity. After being put in a pot separately, the items reacted differently from the boiling water. What were the results? After sitting in the boiling water, the carrots came out soft and weak after sitting in it's boiling pot. The egg had a fragile exterior layer to protect it's liquid interior layer. After sitting in the boiling water, it got tough and gave up. However when the grounded coffee beans was in the pot, it changed the water and became positive. The question is when adversity knocks at your door, which are you? The carrot, the egg, or the coffee beans? You have a choice to make.

Chapter 18 was about the topic responsibilities. In this chapter, I talked about how many responsibilities we have in our daily lives. Question is how big can a responsibility can get? The answer responsibilities are very big. Plus they can be hassle. So what responsibilities do we have everyday? For instance, one of them is work. The reason is we can't be at home all day. That's not paying the bills or the things we need. Speaking of paying, I spoke about how much responsibility money is. Without it, none of us won't be able to pay any due dates that needs responsibility. Like rent for the houses we live in that also has bills which needs to be paid. Speaking of paying, I spoke about how much responsibility money is. WIthout it, none of us won't pay due dates that needs responsibility. Like rent for the houses we live in. Another is insurances for your car, dentist, your home, or anything that's involved with insurance. Money is a very big thing and that was listing a few reasons why. I also spoke about the quote my mom told me and still remember it today. The quote is "A fool and his money will soon be parted." This means whenever we have money, after spending it all, we lost it. That's the main problem, we spend our loot on things that aren't necessary. What do we do from making that mistake? The answer is we save. The reason is if we don't save enough money we need for a rainy day, we'll be broke and homeless.

In Chapter 17, I talked about faith. Question is what does faith mean? There's several meanings for this word, but I'm going to use one of them. Faith means a strong belief in God. The reasons why I chose this meaning of faith is because I'm a Christian and I wear a necklace with a cross. Here's a little advice my mom told me. She once told me without faith, there's no hope. Now hope is a part of faith. Plus without either one, we'll be all lost. In the world of negativity, the people don't believe in God. That really makes them an atheist. Keep in mind, an atheist is someone who doesn't believe in God or thinks he exists. The only thing we can do is respect those who are atheists. I once heard that Jesus forgave people 70x7 times a day. That's 490 times. We all need to start forgiving one another instead of holding grudges against each other.