Hopefully you did well on the quizzes today. Tomorrow we will begin reading Act 2.
For this evening discuss the following:
Honesty (yours or someone else's) played a role in a conflict in your life. This could be honesty fixing or hurting the conflict.
56 comments:
Yeah....I'm going to have trouble with this one. I usually block conflicts(or avoid the ones causing it), I'm going to have to think deeply about the next blog I do and try to remember.
When I was younger I used to play with hand held games all the time. I was all into the Gameboys and so was my cousin. Every time I would go to my cousins house we would play these games together. He kept getting angry that I was beating him at every game we played. I told him it was because im a few years older and that he would get better. He didn't think so. So one day he got so mad when he came over to my house he stole one of my games for my game boy. When I noticed it was gone I called his house and asked if he had taken it and if so I would like it back. And no I didn't loose the game. I was very good at keeping my games in a certain place when I was not using it and this had never happened to me. So he ended up lying to me about taking the game. I talked with his mom and she lookd for it but never found it. She kept hounding him to find the game and give it back to me. After a month or so I finally got my game back. Now I can't trust him to go into my room with out me being in their with him.
Tyler Inman
5th hour
After my accident overthe summer i was placed into childrens hospital and then transported to childrens hospital. AFter my accident i had many side affects such as dizzyness and stomach aches. Two days after being there a doctor came into my room and asked me, Conner are you feeling any dizzyness of somesort anymore. Cause if so were are going to need to keep you incase your head is not in heeling stage yet. But if you are ok you are welcome to go home. When asked this question the one thing that i wanted to do was go home. i had been waiting to go home this hole time now. But on the other side of things i would rather safe than sorry. so i told them my honest answer about being dizzy still so they kept me one more night to make sure my head was heeling correctly. After one more night i was then sent home feeling good as new and happy that i mentioned the honest and correct answer.
Conner risi
Mr. Kay,
Honestly, I can't remember an exact time when there was a conflict in which honesty played a role between me and someone else. I mean, I am sure it has happened, but I just can't put my finger on one. But, nevertheless it this happens a lot in High School. I hear about my other friends getting in fights over someone not being honest. Sometimes I am not sure what to take away from it. Sometimes, I think that them getting in a fight or having a small conflict makes sense, but most of the time, honesty is blown out of proportion. Some people lie to protect someone or to not make them feel bad, but if that person finds out, then they will get excessively mad. People lose friends over small lies, even if the lies were meant to protect the person. What I am getting at is that sometimes honesty is a good thing, but others not so much, and there is too much conflict that comes from a little fib sometimes. So I sorry I couldn't enlighten you with a story of my own, but this is what I think on the main subject.
-Luke LaFountain
6th Hour
Today on the bus somebody was putting gum in my hair. When I got off the bus I told my parents and they saw all the gum that was in my hair. They got all the gum out of my hair with cooking oil. The person who did it apologize to me and her parents and we talked to each other. I think honesty fixed the problem because I am not afraid to go on the bus now. Like I won't get picked on anymore. I think it caused conflict for the person because they had to be honest.
Katherine Walsh
6th hour
Mr. Kay,
There have been . . . well I won't say alot, but there have been some conflicts in my life that have involved either someone getting into my problem or I get into there's. There was one time when I had a huge figth with one of my really good friends. I was so upset that I told my best friend about it. She told me what she thought I should do. I was just so upset that I told her that it would have to be some what of a long time before I could talk to them again. She offered to talk to them for me, but I didn't want anything to do with them. So she interviened (to be honest I'm really glad she did), she made me talk to them. And she gave us both idea's of how to work out our problems so that we could be friends again. In the end, we both had the wrong impressions about what the other person thought. We became good friends again. Now I know that before I get all upset about something, I need to find out what the other person is thinking about before I take it the wrong way. She really helped the problem.
Danielle Turner
5th Hour
Honesty (yours or someone else's) played a role in a conflict in your life. This could be honesty fixing or hurting the conflict.
I think honesty is a trait of a great person. Its not always easy to be honest but it is the right thing to do. When i think of honesty i think of the time when most of the guys on the hockey team drove to mcdonalds before practice. On the way back, we side swiped a car in the parking lot. We hurried to move the car to the back of the rink and went in for practice. During practice some guy came running down the the ice and said someone hit his car. We were all speechless and nobody said a word. But finally, when they hinted calling the police the drivcer spoke up and admitted to hitting the other car. I think that when he stepped up to say this, h saved himself out of alot on money because the other driver filed a report and said he didnnt know the driver, so our freinds insurance wouldnt go up. I thnik if he wouldnt have admitted to it he would have had to pay alot of money and got introuble with his parents. I think that the other kids were hurting the situation for not being honest. We should have spoken up and caused less trouble for all.
There are a couple of times when I have had to tell the truth. The one time I will tell you about is when I broke my garage window when I was 8 years old. One day after it has rained a lot I went outside to play in the mud. I was throwing clumps of mud at my garage to make spots on it. I picked up a heavy clump with a rock in it and threw it at the window and it broke. I quickly went inside and took off my muddy clothes and actewd like nothing happened. My dad went outside and found the broken window and asked me how this happened. I told him it was my neighbor and he did it. He didnt believe me and he got more mad at me for not telling him the truth. I learned two things from this: be honest because it will get you in more trouble and foul around doing stupid things.
Troy Wojichowski 6th hr.
This happenes to me all the time. Hannah and I are always fighting about one of us getting into trouble. and the other one knows what exactly happened and wont say a word. Or one of us will lie to get out of trouble, like me blaming hannah for something i did. This is where honesty should come along because if we were honest when we get into trouble, it wouldnt be that big of a deal. So realy its hurting the situtation, rather than fixing it. We have now realized that no matter what always tell the truth, because some how it always ends up being told.
Honesty (yours or someone else's) played a role in a conflict in your life. This could be honesty fixing or hurting the conflict.
When I was in third grade there was a bully. For him I was his prime target. He would pick on me all the time. Well one time I got fed up with it so when he hit me I kinda hit him back (and by kinda I mean I gave him a black eye). But after a while of fighting, one of the teachers found us and started yelling at us and trying to separate us. After a while of getting yelledat by the teacher I went home. Of course they called my mom and told her the whole story so when I got home she confronted me about it. She asked how it all went down and if I had good reason for picking a fight. So I told her the truth about the whole thing not just how the teacher saw it from her point of view. After I told her she said she was proud lol. You'd think I would've gotten in trouble but I didn't which was really cool.
James Richardson
5th hour
I think honesty is a great trait to have, and no matter what the situation is, you should always tell the truth. The first thing that came to mind about honesty is when me, my sister and my mom were driving to Florida for a dance competition. We stopped off at a rest stop to get a snack or something. On the way back out to our car, we found about a hundred dollars sitting on the ground by somebody’s car. We were kind of in a hurry, so we were deciding if we should just keep the money or do the right thing and wait for the person to come out and find it. Well, we ended up holding on to it for a minute in the car. And in a few seconds we saw someone running to his car frantically looking for something. So we went up to him and asked him if he was looking for money, and ended up giving it to him. I really do believe in karma, and we pretty much saved this guy a lot of money and he was really thankful we found it, and to this day I will always remember to always be honest and tell the truth.
Clare Pathe
Honesty (yours or someone else's) played a role in a conflict in your life. This could be honesty fixing or hurting the conflict.
In my life honesty helps the conflict and also hurts it. One time i was very honest to this person, and it turned out to help me become betterr friends with that person. You can have a good relationship with someone if it is based on lies. After i told this person the truth, they liked me a lot more and we hung out a lot more. But being honest also hurt me too. My friend was going out with this girl but he didn't know that she was dating someone else. I was honest with him and told him that she was cheating on him with another guy. he was pissed at me cuz he thought i was lying and we havn't hung out sence.
Zack Ruffin 6th
6th
There have been times when honesty played a role in a conflict in my life. When I lie to someone, in the end I usually am honest about the situation to the person. One situation where someone else was not being honest was a few months ago with my cousin and I. She was hanging out at my house, and when she left I noticed a large amount of money was taken from my room. I was positive that it had been taken but I didn't want to ruin my relationship with my cousin by blaming her for the missing money. I also did not want to tell my parents about it because I didn't want them to have the wrong impression of her, because we are really close. It was a back and forth "should I ask or should I forget about it" kind of thing. In the end I consulted her myself and it turns out she did take the money. She apologized and I didn't make much of it because I could tell she was truly sorry. Sometimes it is difficult to tell the truth when it is good for one person but bad for another.
Honesty plays a huge role in everyone's lives. One time I was in Ohio at a soccer tournament. My team had just finished our game and we were playing soccer in the hall. We were using a tiny ball and the halls were tiny. There were about 12 of us playing. My friend tripped over someone else and put his heel through the wall. The hotel manager came up to our floor and asked who put the hole in the wall. My friend wasn't saying anything and we all were questioned. I answered truthfully and they found out it was him through 2other people and me. The kid hated me and the other two but he didn't make the team the following year so it all workied out. I think the consequences could have been avoided if he had told the truth at first but he didn't. I try to tell the truth as much as I can.
William Schwartz
6th hr
When thinking of a conflict, only one jumps to my mind because I normally forget what happens or it gets solved and I would prefer not to bring it up again. However, this one seems stupid and funny now so I always remember it. In the first couple days of kindergarden I made a best friend (Alanna :)) which we would sit next to each other on the bus. But one day two big fifth grade boys decided to sit across from us and say really stupid things to us. They said (dont know why) "look out the window" and "party time!!!!" constantly over and over again. Me and Alanna found it really really scary. We understood that they were making fun of us. We soon became afraid of the bus and didn't want to ride it anymore. Alanna wanted to tell the bus driver but we didn't want to walk past the scary fifth graders so it continued on for weeks. Finally Alanna decided to be really brave and went up to the bus driver. After the bus driver yelled at them, they stopped and never talked to us again. The moral to the story was that if you dont make it clear you don't like something, sooner or later you will have a conflict. Our kindergarden conflict could have easily been avoided if we went to the bus driver the first day.
Kristen Pauly
6th hr.
Honesty in my life is something I take seriously. Fisrt off, I usaully tell the truth to people even if it hurts. If I am lieing it is usually a joke and I end up being honest to the person I just lied to. Most of the time, except under certain circumstances like if something's life or death, I think the truth should be spoken even if it hurts a situation. One time I had a situation where I needed to make a decision on if I should tell someone about something important. I was afraid it would hurt our friendship but insead it ended up making us even closer friends. I have had many situations like this and I always try to tell the truth.
Taylor Dieck
5th hr.
Honesty plays a major role in each persons life. Whether you want to be honest or not the truth slips out. I have been honest with people before, sometimes it hurts the situation but sometimes it mends them. Mostly honesty back fires with my friends. When I try to tell them the truth it just ends up being a complete mess. With my mother however she loves the truth and never gets mad when I tell it. She understands and always try to talk through it with me. Even though honesty can be a great thing, it can also be very hurtful. I do believe in being truthful but sometimes life is better when your not honest. Not that I like to lie but a lot of feelings could be in the process of truth. They say honesty is the best policy. I think that if it hurts more than it helps why even bother. Sometimes it's better for a person to carry on not hurt by the truth than be slowed down with knowledge.
To be honest, i hate talking about this. I cant really recall on remember the last conflict that hade honesty to do with it between me and someone else. Hummmmmmmmm.......... My sister told my parents she was somewhere and turned out to be somewhere else and she finaly got cought. My dad found out she was never where she she was sying she was. Sorry marc thats all i got. :/
I could definatly see how honesty could start a conflict. you could bring up something to someone thats the truth but the truth might hurt them. for an example you could be honest with your friend and tell them something theyve been doing wrong lately. it all just depends on how they take it to determine whethter it starts a conflict or not. so being honest could go either way, it could help or hurt the conflict. from personal experiance i think it is better to just be honest becuase you wont have to be hiding anything. you wont be as stressed about the conflict as you would be if you lied about it.
Andy B, 6th hour
Honesty (yours or someone else's) played a role in a conflict in your life. This could be honesty fixing or hurting the conflict
okay mr.kay i really dont know how to start off or explain what conflicts have happened in my lifee....lemme think really hardd...well honesty is a very good value someone can i have i really like it when people dont lie. in my life, my parents love it when my brother and i tell the truth, we get into less trouble when we be completely honest. but sometimes my bro and i cover for each other, because were close like that and we dont like snitching. but one night my brother was having all his friends over, he was a sphmore and i was a eighth grade. but anyways wes, aj, nick f, eric evans, ouffit, and that hole gang was over. and they were downstairs horsing around and my brother put ajs head thru the wall, and that night i was havin ppl over to, and my dad came home, so my brothe gave me 20 bucks sayin i did it by playin air hockey. soo my dad came downstairs, "WHAT THE FFFFF"" who did thiss, i looked at richhharrd, he looked at me and i was like me, sorry dad. hes like oh its okay sweety, ill patch it up...come help me. so i went upstairs, and my dad was like stef did ricky do this? im like uuuh no dad..hes like i bet he paid u to say u did it. im like noo...but i didnt get in trouble either did ricky i just got yelled at for coverin up for him. so honesty should of been used even though i got paid, i would never snitch on my brother.
stefffieeeeee
Honesty makes things easier in the long run.One time i was with a friend and had went nexdoor to talk to my dad.On the way home i banged on my window thinking it would scare my friend but ended smashing through the window.I told my dad we were playing football and it hit the window.I kept up with this lie for a long time.I cant even remember if they did find out the truth.So whether they did find out or not honesty is always the better thing to do.Tyler McLeod 6th
A time that sparked a conflict in my life was just recent. I went to my dads house to go deer hunting. I told my mom I was just staying a week but I skipped school so me and my dad could get up north one day early. Well it pissed my mom off! She had not even known I was up north at a hotel. She was just asking how my day went at school. After she realized I was absent all hell broke loose. I was yelled at plus she said she cant trust me. I dont realy care, I had fun but I learned being honest would have been better. If I had asked it would not have started a fight and I may have been able to go with permision.
My mom is a very strict mom. If you break anything, your screwed. One day my mom noticed a fist sized hole in our living room wall. My mom was freaking out and was blaming me. Telling me to tell the truth and admit i put the hole in the wall. When in reality, i didnt freakin do it. So i was not going to admit to something i didnt do. Finally my sister admitted her friends were the ones who put the hole in the wall. I was very glad she decided to be honest because i would have been the one punished for the hole.
Mikki Nosek 5th HR
a time that honesty has helped me in my life is when my so called friend stole my xbox 360 game saints row. when i called him out on it he denied it like most people would. so i took the next step and went to his parents, but they did not help out much. so a acted like i lost it and invited him over to play halo. when i was time for him to leave i told him to leave his controller at my house for the night. the next day i told him if he wanted it back that he had to give me my game back. the next day i got my game. he said that he stole it from gamestop but i know for a fact that it was my game because the serial number on the disc matched that number on the game case.
So honestly i dislike this blog. I'm actually getting extremely frustrated because I've been sitting here trying to think of a situation that applies to this blog, and I'm drawing blanks. So honestly i was considering making up a story. some kind of story from my child hood about stealing my brother toy. But that completely contradicts the blog. The blogs base is honesty, and i honestly cant write what your asking without lying. But as far as my views go on honesty, i'm not sure what i believe. I do believe that honesty is important. lying proves you have something to hide, and if its truly a good relationship you should be able to be yourself. On the other hand we need to lie. White lies are the starting points of many relationships. its telling someone you like there outfit, telling someone they look nice, lying to make someone feel better. which i don't believe is hurting or fixing a relationship its maintaining confidence in the people around you.
hmm...I have two stories I COULD share, but people would get the wrong idea of me... And i think my stories of honesty are a bit too personal to share in public, where people would comment openly on my past actions.
So, Mr.Kay, if you would, please click on the following link.
I WOULD APPRECIATE THAT I WOULD BE ONLY MR.KAY, THANK YOU.
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Steffeny Apollo
5th hour
Honesty is an excellent trait for someone to have. In my family, honesty is a major factor. My dad especially always wants the truth and he can always tell when I'm lying. When I was little, probably 8 or 9 years old, my dad had just got a new computer for his office. Well me and my sister got curious and decided to check it out. I was standing in the doorway and my sis went and played around with it. While she was doing that, she must have pulled a plug or hit a wrong button because it screwed things up pretty bad. When stuff goes wrong, my dad is always ready to blame me. So he finds out the computer is messed up and immediatly comes and asks me what happened. I tell him I didn't touch it and I don't know what happened. He doesn't believe me but after a while of arguing I told him Kalynn did it. In this situation, being honest helped me get out of trouble. I try to be as honest as I can.
Cody Kabisa
6th hour
honesty means a lot to me. i'd rather have people tell me the truth than lie to my face about something. i hate it when people are fake friends with a person just so they can get something out of it. i'd rather just know what they really think. i'm not saying if you hate someone to go up and tell them you hate them, but to just show them the respect you would like them to show you.sometimes the truth hurts but it's what really what matters in the end. or you can look at honesty like when you do something wrong and are asked about it if you say what really happened i might not get into as much trouble. but its easier to just lie to cover up things you do. the truth may never slip out, so it can at least make a situation look better for awhile.
During the summer I went up to my cabin. Me and my friend steven launched the jet skis. On our way to the bay we decided to cut thorugh a part that looked clear. It ended up being full of weeds and it got sucked up on the intake of both the jet skis. We got it all out of stevens without fliping his jet ski and we had to flip mine to get all the weeds out. After we did we tried starting it up it started up then stop and didnt start baack up. So we pushed it about half a mile to the gas station tied it up out of the way and sat their. after 5 or 10 minutes we asked for a cup and started geting the water out of the engine capartment. We were taking turns doing that and riding his jet ski out in the main channel becuase all the big boats were out and there was tons of big waves. Inbetween switching we tried calling my parents over and over after about 3 or 4 hours we finally got a hold of them. By then we had all the water out and my dad asked what happend. I told him what happend and it ended up that we flooded the crank case and engine with water. We also blew the seals of the engine thats why it wouldnt start again. So after we got back I spent a week or so taking apart and putting the engine back together with my dad. In the end my dad wasnt mad about the engine just haing to take the thing apart and put it back together.
kevin anderson
6th hour
Honesty plays a big part in ever ones lifes and what you choice to do is your call. The last time that honesty played a role in my life was when i was when i went to one of my freinds sleep over. We where plying down in the basement and we were rougher than we should have been. There was a clay lamp down in his basement and i pushed it over and it chipped a little. Well i was going to tell my freind but it sort of freaked me out and i was worried. Well the next my freind asked me about it and asked me who broke it. He told me that he was in trouble for so i told him that i did it. In the end his parents forgot about it and at first when they found out it was me they really didnt mind beacause the like me. If i told him that night it would have not been such a big deal to him, but in the end it all worked out.
Shaun Gerber
my mom lies alot!!! i remember when my mom had joint legal custody and she got me and my sister every other weekend, she had us from any time after on friday til like sunday night. every time she said she'd be there to pick us up we'd wait outside for her and not one single time was she ever there on time if she actually came! she always said stuff like her car broke down or she dont got gas to drive to pick us up. my dad drove us out there a billion times and he was mad at my mom for not being there. i remember waiting there and my dad would tell me to watch a movie with him and my sister but id say something like" no, mom's almost here i bet." but she never came!!! thats screwed up in my eyes and ill never do that to my kids when i grow up.
beebe is a faggot
Honesty, is something that everyone should do more often. You can never go wrong with honesty. Unlike most girls my age, I tell my mom everything. I am always completely honest with her, on everything that's going on. I go to her a lot when I need help, or want to get something off my chest, she always tells me that you should always tell the truth. So in the long run you have nothing to be ashamed of except for speaking the truth. An example in my life would be in third grade, I was friends with this girl named Clarie. She got mad at me because she heard something that I said, when I really didn't. So she wouldn't talk to me, and I was upset that I lost a friend and I couldn't do anything to stop it. One afternoon, this lady came to our classroom and she was discussing something, then asked if anyone had recently gotten into a fight? I raised my hand, so this lady went on and on about our little issue. I told her what really happened, and it ended up saving our friendship. By the end of this lady's discussion, Clarie and I just looked at each other and bursted out in laughter. We were friends until she moved, later that year. The moral of the story is, I could have lost her without telling her what really happened.
Alanna Nagi
6th hour
Conflict happens all the time. It happens all the time to me with alot of things. When me and Hailey fight there is alot of conflict. We are always fighting about something. When we actually get in trouble and my parents start yelling at us neither of us will rat eachother out. Even tho im the one that starts it most of the time hailey will never tell on me. well she does when she hits me first, and she runs and tells my dad and i get in trouble and i dont even get a chance to hit her back. We fight alot! almost everyday. im usually the one getting in trouble tho. Its not only about fighting tho, conflict happens all the time. When one of us or even both of us get in trouble wel always lie to my parents to get out of trouble, and for some reason me and hailey make up the same stories. No matter what we have learned to tell the truth always, because some way out parents always find out.
Honesty to me is very important, i would rather have someone be completely honest to me then lie. Yes, sometimes the truth is hard to take but its better than having people be fake. An example of when I was honest was when me and my friend were playing soccer in my backyard and we kicked the ball over the fence and the ball hit my neighbors car. When my neighbor came over and asked what happened I told her the truth and she ended up yelling at me and telling my mom. But, my mom asked if I told the truth to begin with and she said yes. And so I wasn't in trouble with my mom I just had to apologize to my neighbor. So, in that case my honesty ended up helping my conflict.
Hannah Aittama
5th Hour
One time up north me and my cousin where sleding down this big hill. After a few hours of that we got really board. So there were my uncles snowmobile just sitting there. We decided to take the smomobile and ride it on the trails. The problem was that I never asked and it had no trial stickers on it. So if we were to get pulled over it would have been a big fine. My cousin and i were riding around for a while. We were coming in when to snomobles were racing around a turn. There was no room and we crashed the sled. the front of the sled was slightly damaged and we had to go tell my uncle. He was mad but was glad that we were ok. So we got out of this by telling him the snowmobiles hogin the trial. But it was a lie. If he ever found out what we were doing then we would have been in big trouble.
Chirs Reid
5th hour
Oppps i guess i didnt put anything about honesty in mine. I'm going to add that the two fifth grade boys were first questioned about making fun of us by the bus driver. One of them said they weren't doing anything wrong which is when the bus driver started to yell. Most of the time people can tell when you lie so it just makes it worse when you don't tell the truth right away.
Kristen Pauly
6th hour.
Megan Fraser 6th hour
Honesty plays a big role in people's lives. One time that it played a role in a conflict of mine was actually right now. My brother is being a total jerk to my family and my dad is yelling at him. I'm usually on my brothers side but this time my parents are right. Earlier tonight my dad asked me to talk to him and I basically told him that he was wrong and how he's acting. I think hearing it might make him realize and make things better. I'm glad I told him the truth and didn't just feel sorry for him. It'll make things so much better and now he knows that I can be trusted to tell the truth.
Honesty is a key point in everyones life. I try to be honest all the time. The other day in class I was accused of damage to a place. It sucks because I had nothing to do with it. I was honest with my teacher and i think he believed me. Being honest always pays off in the end. I didnt hve much control over the situion. The conflict overall was not so bad overall though.
Jordan Blanzy
5th
John Kent
5th Hour
One time when my Mom was in High School she had made it her goal to humiliate the football team captain as much as possible. He thought he was hot stuff and it was my Mom’s goal to prove that he wasn’t. You see she was captain of the swim team and a National Honor Society Member. So she was smarter and of the same social standing. So if any girl could pick on the captain of the football team it was her. She would correct him in math class making him look dumb. One time she had sent a singing telegram from the Drama Club titled “I hate you Bruce.” She didn’t realize how upset or embarrassed that made him. After class he was in the hallway accosting the captain of the basketball team. He was trying to beat a confession out of him. So she walked up told him it wasn’t the basketball captain. She wouldn’t tell him who it was but she knew that she had to step in or someone would have gotten hurt because of something she did.
This past summer, i had a huge horse show that i wanted to go to. But in order for me to go, i had to print out all the paperwork and fill it out myself. After i filled it out and got ready to send it in the mail, i realized i had a problem. The problem was that the registration forms were due a week earlier. My mom had already sent in money for some of my classes. therefore, we would lose money since i didnt get the papers in on time. I had to be honest with my mom and tell her the truth. I learned that i should find deadlines out in advance!!!
amy urbanik
5th hour
Well first of all honesty is the best policy, is the old saying which i think is true. Now one conflict that i remember wasn't involved with me but was with my sister. She was going around saying she was raising money for a fundraiser when really she just kept the money. I am not really sure why she wanted the money because she was in 6th grade so i don't know what she was trying to do. However she got caught by my parents and it wasn't good. First she had to go to every door and explain what she did and had to give the money back. Also, she was got in huge trouble and ended up getting grounded. Last is she lost the trust in our parents for a little bit of time and had to gain it back. This story just proves honesty is the best policy.
Ty Bouwens, 6th hour
Yeah it's official. I have no story to tell. I try to fix the start of conflicts before they get out of hand. My parents or my sibling have a story about honesty involving me.
Sorry.
I think very few people tell the truth in every day conversation. Being honest can hurt someone in a conflict even worse. A time when I noticed honesty backfiring was when in a movie I was watching, A wife cheated on her husband. She eventually fessed up to him and he was in shock. He eventually committed suicide because he spent so much time with her. I never thoguht honesty was a bad thing at all, but AI know that it can cause conflict.
deets
Conflicts occur all the time in my life. I'm not suprised, because we're in high school and people just create drama to have drama. I hate drama, especially when I'm in the middle of it. I know that people have said things about me that aren't true and spread hurtful rumors. As it usually happens, the things others were saying got back to me. For a certain amount of time I could just blow it off and push it to the back of my mind. After a while though, I just couldn't take it and my emotions get the best of me. That's where honesty comes into play. I know that talking to the people saying crap about me would make things worse most of the time, so I can be honest with the few close friends I have who have always, and will always be there. I can let out everything and just be frustrated, sad, angry, or whatever I want to with them because we are always honest with each other. Talking to someone helps me get through problems easier and always makes me feel better in the long run. Although the people who are saying things aren't being honest with me, I can be honest with my few best friends. We all trust each other and can confide in each other because of honesty.
Kaleigh Swanson
6th hour
Mr. Kay,
I think that Honesty is only sometimes the best option. Honesty isnt always the best beacause it sometimes hurts people and causes them to do things that arent good. In instances where something you did could really hurt that person, I think that you should just keep the truth quiet. But also, Truth is still the best option in situations like that. Like a time when I was younger I borke one of my moms vaces. I felt really bad and went and told her what had happend. I got into trouble for it obviously, but I was glad that I was honest and I knew that I wouldnt be able to keep that a secret for very long and live with myself.
Tim Wilson
well, honesty, and its counter-part, lying, are around us all the time. although the latter of the 2 is more prevalent than honesty. honestly.
I can remember a lot of times when i was un-truthful to people, or when i chose to say something that was negative; but i see that being honest, no matter how much it hurts to say, it should be said.
my example, has, well, not only been an example to honesty, but also has been an example to many other stories, and it has served many morals. its a great reference story, which never gets old. and even though i know the ending never changes, in my honest, truthful self, i wish it could have been different. its really the one point in my life that i would have liked to change, out of anything else. it was that kind of a story.
anyways, The story...
so, a long time ago, way back when in fifth grade, i had this girl in my class, that, when i first saw her, (in fifth grade, may i remind you) i thought she was instantly the most beautiful girl in the class. and, being the shy kid i was, way back when, i didn't say anything to her at all, and i really kept that secret to myself, for a good 4 years. till an epiphanic thought came into my head. and, to thus day, i still regard this thought as my best thought ever, and the choice i made, was the right choice. so, around april of last year, i wrote her a note, telling her how much i liked her, and i put it somewhere where she could find it. and she did. and, even though she read it and, hopefully understood it; she had said that she doesn't share the same feelings as i do for her. thats when i felt the biggest feeling of accomplishment in my life. i was glad i told her how i felt, and, again, i will always regard it as a great choice; and yet, even though part of me moved on, completely understanding that we would never work out, there is still, and im making a life long promise, that there will always be a little spark of hope and there will always be a part of me that still likes her.
that was the most honest i had ever been to anyone, ever. for good reasons. but to me, this shows that honestly, wether your situation works out in the end or not, its a good choice to be honest, to not only other people, and the way you feel about them, but also, to be honest with yourself. because the only bad thought i had about the choice i made, that was prominently making me do those such actions in the story, was the fact that, if i never told her, she would have never known how i felt, and i would have thought that that would have been an awful thing to live down, for the rest of my life.
so, theres my love story that contains all the honesty that i have ever given to anyone, at anytime. and i feel good that i can talk about it, and tell it to people.
Nick Visger
nickvisger@me.com
When i was little I had a really bad temper. I came home from school and I had gotten in trouble in school. My parents already knew about what happened and they told me to go shovel the drive way as a punishment, it was winter at the time. So i went outside and i started shoveling. I don't remeber why but i got so mad that I threw a rock through my house window. My parents came running outside and i told them what happened. This didn't help the conflict i was having with my parents, it made it worse. So i was then grounded for a few weeks. I felt good that i told the truth though and i knew things would get better.
I could definatly see how honesty could start a conflict. you could bring up something to someone thats the truth but the truth might hurt them. for an example you could be honest with your friend and tell them something theyve been doing wrong lately. it all just depends on how they take it to determine whethter it starts a conflict or not. so being honest could go either way, it could help or hurt the conflict. from personal experiance i think it is better to just be honest becuase you wont have to be hiding anything. you wont be as stressed about the conflict as you would be if you lied about it.
Alex Martin
sorry im late....
Honesty in my life is something I take seriously. Fisrt off, I usaully tell the truth to people even if it hurts. If I am lieing it is usually a joke and I end up being honest to the person I just lied to. Most of the time, except under certain circumstances like if something's life or death, I think the truth should be spoken even if it hurts a situation. One time I had a situation where I needed to make a decision on if I should tell someone about something important. I was afraid it would hurt our friendship but insead it ended up making us even closer friends. I have had many situations like this and I always try to tell the truth.
John McLean
The conflict that I have with my brothers. They make me so angery. I have two little brothers. They never leave me alone. They are always in my hair. I kinda yell at them. I know that I shouldn't yell at them but like I said they are always by me. Another conflict that I have is with people that make me angry. I dont like people that make me angry. So I try to avoid them.
Well the conflict that I have is with my mom. I don't always treat her right. I know that I should be nicer to her. I am trying to. But sometimes you have bad days. At school with teachers or at work with coworkers. I am trying really hard not to take it out on my family. It is very diffucult. I have a very short temper. I can't always hold it in. That is another thing that I am working on.
When I was younger I used to play with hand held games all the time. I was all into the Gameboys and so was my cousin. Every time I would go to my cousins house we would play these games together. He kept getting angry that I was beating him at every game we played. I told him it was because im a few years older and that he would get better. but i was always still better then him. So one day he got so mad when he came over to my house he stole one of my games for my game boy. When I noticed it was gone I called his house and asked if he had taken it and if so I would like it back.so i did get it back and we sorted it out after that.
This is my redo blog. Well Mr. Kay I decide to drink at my older sisters house a couple weeks ago. We ended comming home at like 3 am that night. So when my parents came into my room in the morning and saw that I was asleep in my bed. So that morning they asked me that why did we come home. So I told them what went down. My honesty hurt me in this situation because I got grounded and yelled at. But I thought that since I was honest with my parents that I would not get into any trouble. But I guess it doesnt work that.
I would say the biggest problem in my life is trusting people. I trusted one of my best friends (Whose name I will not mention) To be a good friend. Not talk behind my back and not tell my secrets and what not. I was talking to a few of my other friends about a month ago and they said that my friend was talking smack about me. I was like "omg no wai." so i confronted her about it. She of coarse said she wasn't so I believed her. Then I cought her in the act. I actually heard her talking bad about me to some girl in the hall. She didn't know i was near them but I was pretty upset. Turns out she was telling all of my secrets when she PROMISED she wouldn't. So not only did she break my trust with her but she also lied. Me and her aren't exactly on speaking terms right now.
Kymmie Brownson 6th
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