observe and write about certain activities of your daily life which people consider good and which makes you feel good. (150 words)
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You don’t tell us how old you are. I found high school to be unchallenging and very tedious and felt that I was good for nothing. I’d say “There’s nothing more useless than a high school student.”
What I did about it was try to be good for something. I got jobs mowing lawns and washing dishes and working in the car wash. My paycheck showed me I was good for something. I bought a nice camera and learned to take good pictures. I learned how to repair cars and how to build stuff. I also got involved in the social change movements of the 60’s and started doing protest art.
In college I was studying English because I wanted to be a writer and I liked literature (except not Henry James), and I was getting acceptable grades even though my papers were so slapdash I never even went to get them back from the professors. I couldn’t understand why anyone should care what a confused 19-year-old thought about Jude the Obscure, and I started to feel “There’s nothing more useless than an English major.”
I was living off campus with some other students and we had a big vegetable garden. As I learned about the chemistry of plant physiology I was finding I was good at organic gardening. I got curious about the chemistry of life and decided that majoring in Biology might make me good for something. It was also going to be very challenging as I had almost no science background and needed some remedial math instruction, and my fellow students in the program were very-ambitious pre-med students, many of whom came from several generations of medical doctors and/or had been studying science for years at expensive prep schools. They were also by this point two years younger than me. At 20 I felt out of place and conspicuously old. I had to take an academic overload to get through the program in as few semesters as possible. It was a challenge. It was hard work. I told myself I was learning how to learn.
After college I moved to a college town in the midwest. I worked in a mail-order place packing nutritional pills. I worked for a carnival. I delivered pizzas. I installed storm windows and pumped urethane foam insulation and did drywall work and picked apples and cucumbers and beans and jalapenos. I washed dishes and did janitorial and handyman work and construction work.
If you succeed at the basics, you get better jobs. At the carnival I started out lugging heavy machine parts, setting up the rides, and they invited me to go on the road with them, driving a truck.
I started out picking apples and then they put me to work driving a tractor and making the cider. I started out unloading trucks and then they put me to work driving the forklift and logging all the incoming shipments, and soon I was sorting out computer errors in the inventory. I started out digging ditches and before long I was sawing bricks into triangles for arty brickwork, and designing complicated hip roofs.
Everybody’s good for something. You just need to get a solid and very modest footing and build on your success.
In the morning when I get up I use to give water to the plants of the little garden outside my home. I clean the garden and use to play there with my pet. I did not know about it that some people observed my daily routine and one day a lady came to my mother, she said that I want to appreciate the efforts of your son. My Mom got shocked when she heard these words from an unknown lady. She called me up and the very moment I get to know about this I felt so good.