JUST SPEAK UP

To firstly address why I didn't choose one of the given topics:  I personally don't like sticking to scripts and like to guide myself and not be guided by prompts and I have personally endured something today that I think that is worth sharing with my fellow bloggers and that is: "Whatever you feel speak up, don't let it bottle you up". Often times in life we tend to bottle our feelings and emotions inside towards individual people and situations because we are afraid.

This fear is rooted from many different areas - some people fear speaking up for themselves because they always have had someone speak up for them, they fear to say the wrong things, they don't want the person to get mad or become confrontational with them, they don't care enough about the situation, or just they don't know what to say.

My advice to anyone who is feeling this way is to SIMPLY SPEAK UP! The saying speaks now, or forever hold your peace is so accurate. You loose so much peace when bottle things and the real vindication comes when you just let how you are feeling go. If you don't like the direction something is going - speak up! If you feel like someone is disrespecting you speak up! If you feel like people are attacking you speak up! When you speak up, things go better for you.

I had a huge relief when I released somethings that I have been feeling. It felt like I was at my breaking point and today I let people know how I felt and now I feel vindicated. For anyone bottling up fear and etc - just speak the hell up or forever hold your peace. I don't know about you, but I love having my peace.

Failure: The Story of the First Time I got fired and the last time.

The lessons we take from failure can be fundamental to later success. Recount an incident or time when you experienced failure. How did it affect you, and what did you learn from the experience? The best place that I have ever worked at is Busch Gardens in Williamsburg. I find BGW to be a fun place to work with a lot of benefits to take advantage of. Busch Gardens is also the first place I was fired from. 

During my 10th grade year, I reapplied to work at Busch Gardens as I had just completed a working season in -o-scream and Christmas Town. I really enjoyed my experiences working at the park however my transportation situation got worse as the year progressed. Knowing that my transportation situation was bad and was not going to get any better. 

Ignorantly I applied anyway and got rehired. When it came to training, it was very hard for me to make it to get transportation to and from training and this caused me to get fired. How did this affect me? This affected me in many ways because it clearly showed me that I was very irresponsible. I missed 3 out of 4 training and I was terminated at the fourth training. The main thing that I learned from this is to always be honest. When I was asked if I had reliable transportation, I should have been honest. My dishonesty led to my first termination.