Have you ever thought that we are like smoothies? The smoothies have to have a lot of ingredients to make everything perfect. We are the same way; we need a lot of people in our lives so that we can help others. Certain special people in our lives are like the main ingredient and the rest are the little things that make the smoothie so good.
The people in our life are so important that with out them we would just be plain old boring human beings. Without the strawberries and the sugar and the milk in a smoothie it’s just ice and water. The little things we do in our life can make a big difference in someone else’s life. Have you ever seen that insurance commercial where ONE person helps another with a small thing like pushing their coffee mug back a little so that it doesn’t fall? Then the person helps another person and so on. I know personally that the people in our lives are very important. My 3rd grade teacher, Mrs. Coleman, was the sweetest person I have ever met. When a child in her class was sick she would put a blanket around them and a pillow under their head until their mother came and got them from school. And my current teacher, Mrs. Davis, is one of those teachers who genuinely cares about the students and not whether their grades are affecting her paycheck.
What I am trying to say is that other people in your life affect how you treat others. So go about your day thinking about someone besides yourself and please don’t be that boring smoothie that doesn’t care!
Within the past few years, Harry Potter, The Chronicles of Narnia, and The Lightning Thief hit the silver screen with a bang. Action flies across the screen in an exciting whirlwind of plot, dialogue, and character, with the special effects hustling the heartbeats of the audience. Wait! The movie makers didn’t actually invent the heart-pounding plots or endearing characters from any of these films. Authors did. The pen of J.K. Rowling traced every strand of Hermione Granger’s bushy brown hair before Warner Brothers even knew her. The sensational Christian author C.S. Lewis mapped Narnia generations before the producer of the movie decided where it would be filmed. Rick Riordan allowed Percy Jackson to roam Half-Blood Hill for years on end before his story was captured on film. These three beloved stories lived for years in books before movie makers copied their stories into motion pictures. If you’ve fallen in love with the movie, trust me-read the books. The book always exceeds the movie for me, because I love to map out the settings in my own way and really let the characters become “people” in my mind. The movies are wonderful, sure – but only because the book laid the framework. Read one today!
The March of Dimes March for Babies is coming up soon. In honor of this event, The Cub Reporter Invites you to talk to your Mom and or Dad and find out about the occasion of your birth. Write the story and submit it to . We will publish the stories we receive and pick one to receive extra special attention.
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