Nelson Mandela once said, “The greatest glory in living lies not in ever failing, but rising every time you fall.” But what Mandela meant when he said that can always be misunderstood. Yet did he know that people from the twenty-first century would still be referring to his quote? I think he meant to say that no one should ever give up no matter the circumstances.
This quote says that life is not about all the mistakes people make throughout their life, if they have made any mistakes at all. According to my understanding, this quote is saying that life is about getting back up once any one has fallen, no matter the distance you fell. Even if the fall is as literal as falling off a bike or as mental as facing utter defeat, being able to get back up after whatever fall you have taken will make you even stronger in the end. So in the end, being able to get back up after a fall is the ‘greatest glory’ man can have.
Never falling is always easier than getting back up from a long fall. After every fall there is pain, hurt pride and confidence. For example when I failed a test all I wanted to do was to just wallow in my misery and self pity. Though what I wanted to do would have been easy to achieve, but knowing that I would live in this hole for the rest of my life I decided to climb back out. I may not have realized it then but I was following Mandela’s philosophy.
Nelson Mandela may not have realized how much his quote would mean to so many people in the future, but it did and always will. No matter the hurt pride or distance of the fall I, personally, will never forfeit my will to continue on my path of life.
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An English portfolio by Kristin Monteith.
Table of Links of Contents
Academic Put Together - This is the academic resume that was mainly written in class. It goes over the various qualifications I have for a job or anything else that would require a resume and was written before SOLs of 2009.
Quoting - This essay was one of the first written in class. Was mainly written in the computer labs at the end of September. The whole essay is based on Nelson Mandela's quote "The greatest glory in living lies not in ever failing, but rising up every time you fall".
The Light of Hope Turning On - The essay is of one of my favorite books, Anthem by Ayn Rand. It was mainly written on our own, so mostly typed up on my home computer. It was writen during the begining of the school year, '08-'09. We began writing as soon as everyone had finished Anthem and was to address the many diffrent hopes featured in Anthem.
Thoughts of a Wanderer - This is the personal essay written based around the ideas of three other works: Death is..., Paradox Love, and Good Night. The insperation from Death Is... was of the world after this one and how the afterlife might be what we make it out to be. From Paradox Love I was inspired by things being two sided. Finally, from Good Night the thought of going anywhere I could.
Death Is... - This was written as a short response on death while reading The Death of Ivan Ilyich. Even though it was a short response it was interesting to write my thoughts of death out and being able to see them as written words.
Paradox Love - This was originally a small home work assignment where we could pick from some parodoxies or find one on our own. I chose to write about my currently most played song by The Academy Is... called Everything We Had. I was also somewhat inspired by a series I was reading that had been talking how there always seemed to be the good and the bad.
Good Night - This was written in class after fifteen minutes or so. We were to write about a place we whished to go back to. English being my first block and me being sick I naturally wanted to despeately go back to my nice warm bed. Being specific about details, though somewhat torturing, was a good way to have everything form infront of me increasing my skills of describing in my own writing.
To Clear A Mountain - This was the post-test writing prompt, the prompt being to describe a goal. Thinking of nothing truely interesting to tell and recently be thriving to describe I descided to write of cleaning my desk, I task I have yet to complete. While being able to write over this a few times I found it good to be able to describe a chaotic mountain while adding some of my own sarcasam.
Blink - My reaction to the whole portfolio writng is easy to describe, one word has tooken care of it already. Of course written at the end of my journey I use this as a time to reflect, mainly because that was the asignment.
Quoting - This essay was one of the first written in class. Was mainly written in the computer labs at the end of September. The whole essay is based on Nelson Mandela's quote "The greatest glory in living lies not in ever failing, but rising up every time you fall".
The Light of Hope Turning On - The essay is of one of my favorite books, Anthem by Ayn Rand. It was mainly written on our own, so mostly typed up on my home computer. It was writen during the begining of the school year, '08-'09. We began writing as soon as everyone had finished Anthem and was to address the many diffrent hopes featured in Anthem.
Thoughts of a Wanderer - This is the personal essay written based around the ideas of three other works: Death is..., Paradox Love, and Good Night. The insperation from Death Is... was of the world after this one and how the afterlife might be what we make it out to be. From Paradox Love I was inspired by things being two sided. Finally, from Good Night the thought of going anywhere I could.
Death Is... - This was written as a short response on death while reading The Death of Ivan Ilyich. Even though it was a short response it was interesting to write my thoughts of death out and being able to see them as written words.
Paradox Love - This was originally a small home work assignment where we could pick from some parodoxies or find one on our own. I chose to write about my currently most played song by The Academy Is... called Everything We Had. I was also somewhat inspired by a series I was reading that had been talking how there always seemed to be the good and the bad.
Good Night - This was written in class after fifteen minutes or so. We were to write about a place we whished to go back to. English being my first block and me being sick I naturally wanted to despeately go back to my nice warm bed. Being specific about details, though somewhat torturing, was a good way to have everything form infront of me increasing my skills of describing in my own writing.
To Clear A Mountain - This was the post-test writing prompt, the prompt being to describe a goal. Thinking of nothing truely interesting to tell and recently be thriving to describe I descided to write of cleaning my desk, I task I have yet to complete. While being able to write over this a few times I found it good to be able to describe a chaotic mountain while adding some of my own sarcasam.
Blink - My reaction to the whole portfolio writng is easy to describe, one word has tooken care of it already. Of course written at the end of my journey I use this as a time to reflect, mainly because that was the asignment.
The Sounds of my Thoughts
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