Advice is a guide that may or may not help someone depending on if they follow it. People give advice daily and most people do not take it. I am a person that will take advice if I really want to, but most of the time I try to experience things for myself. These experiences do not always turn out the way I intended them to be and a character in one of the movies that we watched seemed to have a similar experience. In the movie, “Better Luck Tomorrow” the main character, Ben, is someone that could use some advice, even though he probably will not listen. It would still cause him to think over the things he goes through and may take in some advice.

Ben is an overachiever and perfectionist who got involved with the wrong group of people and needs some advice. I wish I could have given some advice during the movie, but I do not think anything I could have said would have any effect on him. Ben thought he was in with the right group of kids who were his so called friends. They made the wrong choices which lead to even worse choices for all of them, eventually making Ben do things nobody normally would ever do. He was getting things that he never could get before by cheating the system.

Ben worked really hard in school and he did things to increase the knowledge that he possessed daily. All of this started to change when people were taking advantage of his abilities and getting him to make cheat sheets for them. This eventually progressed to his so called friends using his knowledge to their advantage and getting him to think of ways to get easy money. This all lead them to start dealing drugs and becoming fake thugs or gangsters. This double life Ben lives during the movie proved to be too much for him. By the end of the film he wanted nothing to do with his former friends and just wanted to focus on what was next for him in life.

If there was one thing I wish I could say to Ben it would be, “you are judged by the company that you keep.” This means, you are looked at the same way your friends or people you are around a lot are looked at or seen as. When Ben first started hanging out with these kids it was okay for them to do what they did because the cheat sheets were not that bad of a thing, even though if someone did catch them it could be detrimental to their schooling. People do not think the people that they are around could cause them their life but in Ben’s case these people really affected his.

Ben did not just need this advice he needed a lot more to help him understand what he was getting himself into. I wish I could have been there to give him one piece of advice but sometimes people like Ben need more than that. For people like Ben it is like a high, when they do something that gets them pumped up or going they just keep doing it to get the same feeling over and over again. There is a point that they do realize that they have a problem and for Ben this was after he killed someone.

People like Ben are like drug addicts. I am not getting at he was on drugs, which he was at one point, but the things he does during the movie he has to keep doing because he got so use to doing them. They were a daily thing for him to make cheat sheets and fraud stores. It is hard for people to stop doing things that they are accustom to doing daily. Everyone has habits but for people like Ben his habit id much harder to break. He finally realizes that he has a problem but by the point he does it was too late because the decision he made was one no one wants to go through dealing with.

My second piece of advice would be, “when things get to be too out of control you should know your limits.” As you found out as you watched the movie Ben did not know his limit, even when he started selling and doing drugs early in the movie to when they thought they were gangsters and started to use guns. Both of these things would have stopped me from hanging out with my friends and possibly doing something to try and get them to stop. I know that a decision like this must have been hard for Ben because he was making money, still getting to the grades, and all the popularity high school kids want to get. All of those things would be hard for me to say no to but there is a point when you would know what is going to be a good decision and what is going to be a bad one.

Knowing what is right from wrong is the main point to this statement. When things get to be too out of control knowing when to leave or stop is what will keep you from getting in trouble. When Ben’s friends pulled the gun on the one kid at the party that would have been enough for me to say good bye to them, leave, and stop what they were doing. Ben did not care because he thought that he had it all and when he was given a gun by his friends he thought, “What are they doing to me,” but he did not care because he did not want to lose their trust.

In conclusion, Ben was a good kid that just made the wrong choices. He got pulled in by peer pressure and this led him to do things that no one would. Things got taken too far and ultimately ended with Ben and his friends killing someone. In Ben’s case he did not know what he got himself into until it was too late. He waited until something bad happened, in his case killing someone. After all of the incidents he decided to leave them and continue with the way his life was before meeting his so called friends. This movie was a good example of what could happen to you if there was no advice given to you about what you should do in your life. So next time someone gives you a little advice, you may want to think it threw and listen for once before you end up in Ben’s shoes.

Advice is a guide that may or may not help someone depending on if they follow it. People give advice daily and most people do not take it. I am a person that will take advice if I really want to, but most of the time I try to experience things for myself. These experiences do not always turn out the way I intended them to be and a character in one of the movies that we watched seemed to have a similar experience. In the movie, “Better Luck Tomorrow” the main character, Ben, is someone that could use some advice, even though he probably will not listen. It would still cause him to think over the things he goes through and may take in some advice.

Ben is an overachiever and perfectionist who got involved with the wrong group of people and needs some advice. I wish I could have given some advice during the movie, but I do not think anything I could have said would have any affected on him. Ben thought he was in with the right kids who were his friends but they made the wrong choices which lead to even worse choices for all of them eventually making Ben do things nobody normally would ever do. He was getting things that he never could get before by cheating the system.

Ben worked really hard in school and he did things to increase the knowledge that possessed daily. All of this started to change when people were taking advantage of his abilities and getting him to make cheat sheets for them. This eventually progressed to his so called friends using his knowledge to their advantage and getting him to think of ways to get easy money. This all lead them to start dealing drugs and becoming fake thugs or gangsters. This double life Ben lives during the movie proved to be too much for him and by the end of the film he wanted nothing to do with his former friends and just wanted to focus on what was next for him in life.

If there was one thing I wish I could say to Ben it would be, “you are judged by the company that you keep.” This means, you are looked at the same way your friends or people you are around a lot are looked at or seen as. When Ben first started hanging out with these kids it was okay for them to do what they did because the cheat sheets were not that bad of a thing, even though if someone did catch them it could be detrimental to their schooling. People do not think the people that they are around could cause them their life but in Ben’s case these people really affected his.

Ben did not just need this advice he needed a lot more to help him understand what he was getting himself into. I wish I could have been there to give him one piece of advice but sometimes people like Ben need more than that. For people like Ben it is like a high, when they do something that gets them pumped up or going they just keep doing it to get the same feeling over and over again. There is a point that they do realize that they have a problem and for Ben this was after he killed someone.

My second piece of advice would be, “when things get to be too out of control you should know your limits.” As you found out as you watched the movie Ben did not know his limit, even when he started selling and doing drugs early in the movie to when they thought they were gangsters and started to use guns. Both of these things would have stopped me from hanging out with my friends and possibly doing something to try and get them to stop. I know that a decision like this must have been hard for Ben because he was making money, still getting to the grades, and all the popularity high school kids want to get. All of those things would be hard for me to say no to but there is a point when you would know what is going to be a good decision and what is going to be a bad one.

Knowing what is right from wrong is the main point to this statement. When things get to be too out of control knowing when to leave or stop is what will keep you from getting in trouble. When Ben’s friends pulled the gun on the one kid at the party that would have been enough for me to say good bye to them, leave, and stop what they were doing. Ben did not care because he thought he had it all and when he was given a gun by his friends he thought what are they doing but he did not care because he did not want to lose their trust.

In conclusion, Ben was a good kid that just made the wrong choices. He got pulled in by peer pressure and this led him to do things that no one would. Things got taken too far and ultimately ended with Ben and his friends killing someone. In Ben’s case he did not know what he got himself into until it was too late. He waited until something bad happened, in his case killing someone. After all of the incidents he decided to leave them and continue with the way his life was before meeting his so called friends. This movie was a good example of what could happen to you if there was no advice given to you about what you should do in your life. So next time someone gives you a little advice, you may want to think it threw and listen for once before you end up in Ben’s shoes.

Ben worked really hard in school and he did things to increase the knowledge that possessed daily. All of this started to change when people were taking advantage of his abilities and getting him to make cheat sheets for them. This eventually progressed to his so called friends using his knowledge to their advantage and getting him to think of ways to get easy money. This all lead them to start dealing drugs and becoming fake thugs or gangsters. This double life Ben lives during the movie proved to be too much for him and by the end of the film he wanted nothing to do with his former friends and just wanted to focus on what was next for him in life.

If there was one thing I wish I could say to Ben it would be, “you are judged by the company that you keep.” This means, you are looked at the same way your friends or people you are around a lot are looked at or seen as. When Ben first started hanging out with these kids it was okay for them to do what they did because the cheat sheets were not that bad of a thing, even though if someone did catch them it could be detrimental to their schooling. People do not think the people that they are around could cause them their life but in Ben’s case these people really affected his.

People see the perfect life as one a movie star or rock star would have. This is because we see it every day on TV and in the news. They have thirty cars, a house they can house my neighborhood from back home, and money they can just throw away on anything. This is not the case people who are like this are often not that happy and end up in depression or sometimes may abuse what they have and go into debt or have financial problems. Money does not solve everything, I feel that you work for what you have and do thing that make you happy.

The people you see that are the happiest are the ones that worked their whole lives and do not have a lot of money but they have a lot of friends and a good family. I have never been given anything major during my life, I have work hard for what I have and I am very satisfied with what I have done. This is a reason why I am in college and working for a degree so I can make my life a little better for myself later in life. I am going to work hard and do my best so I can be happy and make a decent living in my life.

I think that some kids take advantage of becoming an adult. Some kids move out of the homes and get jobs, which I have no problems with but can they deal with the new problems of becoming an adult. When you turn eighteen the state and the government put new responsibilities on you, like voting, taxes, and legal responsibilities. You would be so inexperienced at these things just by moving out of your home and taking them up; you need to be eased into them. I can’t deal with these issues and I feel that I can be considered and adult.

It’s not an age but a maturity level you must reach before you can say, “I am an adult.” In retrospect, as I have mentioned, the state and government see you as an adult at eighteen. I feel it takes someone a little more time than that before they can say I am responsible for everything my parents do and have done, not including the in issues that may come into play. This issue takes time it just does not happen overnight, and sure a long time ago people were sent out of their home at a young age to make their own living. But I feel that with today’s society you can’t do that you have to be taught to take care of the issues that will be presented before you, and your parents have been through it before so what better of a teacher other than someone with first hand experience.

It was a Saturday during the end of summer or early fall and we were at a place called the Masonic Temple in Altoona Pennsylvania. The event was called the shiners circus; it went on every year and was run and set up by a group of doctors who donated the proceeds to shiner hostiles all over the country. Well now that I have given you where I was at let me now explain what I have been told like a thousand times.

The circus was going along like any other indoor circus would. The acrobatics had gone and the monkeys had come out and it was time for the elephants. The elephants had come out and it was going well until one of the elephants went crazy and it decided that it wanted to run free, so it broke the chain it was on and run for the exit. Now the seats we were sitting in were right above the exit the elephant wanted to run out so this scared everyone so they grabbed all three of the grand kids that were there, my two cousins and I, and ran up the seating area.

The elephant had made it out side on to a balcony were it was tranquilized and taken by the trainers. This was something that this elephant did once more before they had shot it down in Hawaii, I do believe. My aunt and my grandma had known through instinct to protect us and they said they didn’t think they just acted. This was one of the earliest times I could think of someone keeping me safe in a risky situation.

First was the nice perfect little town Truman lived in. It never rained, snowed, or nothing while during the time frames that was shown in the movie. Imagine every day waking up and the weather being perfect. Although the one day it did storm but I think that it only happened when he thought of something bad or upsetting to him. But how nice is that, changing the weather depending on how you feel.

Another thing that was interesting about Truman’s world was the way the people acted toward him. Sure it is weird that people were extremely nice and seemed to follow you around everywhere, but it is a good way to get the attention that some people like to get. I myself am not a person who likes attention; sure it is good sometimes but not all of the time. Having your own TV show at which everyone in the world loves you is the ultimate attention getter. I think that would be cool to be a part of.

Finally, there is not much in the movie that was intriguing to me. The few things that did would have to be that the town was perfect and everyone in the world loved Truman. The things that happen in Truman’s world are creepy and weird; personally I would hate things like that to happen to me because I think I may go crazy. Well, Truman lived over ten thousand days in this perfect little world, which is about nine thousand nine hundred more days than I could stay there before I went crazy.

My coach, who was also my gym teacher, told me that I would play because it was my last year with the team. Well, I tried making as many practices as I could and do what I could while I was there. My coach had told me over this time that I was doing a great job and was going to play and possibly start, so this got me excited and anxious to play. I thought that I had a guaranteed spot on the varsity squad, but that came to sudden end one day. I was our first scrimmage and all was going good, I started third base and batted fourth in the lineup. I was pulled in the third inning to have some of the younger kids get some playing time, which I did not mind.

The next scrimmage was the same way which made me think all was well. Well, our first game rolled around and I was not even in the line up to go, I thought that he had forgotten about me but when in reality he was serious. I did not understand and was confused, but he did not care he thought I was not good enough so he told me that I was lucky if I was going to even play at all. This was very surprising to me because this was the same man that said to me that I was going to have to work hard to earn a spot, which I did, and I started both scrimmages. Then suddenly I am not even playing.

So I stayed with the team for a few more weeks and I did not play one inning. I was still confused and had asked my coach multiple times why I was not playing but yet I played and was told that I was going to start in the pre-season. Once I realized that I was not going to play anymore and kids that were I feel not as good as I was were going to play and possibly start over me, I had had enough. I told my coach that I was done and then that’s when he had told me, “Oh, I was going to play you the next game.” This made me even madder, I did not understand why someone who do something like that to someone and make them think one thing and then do something the total opposite.

This man broke a rule of educate in baseball I feel by; working with me, having me practice like a starter, this made me feel good about what I was doing, and then in the end it turned out to be a big waste of my time. This man made me feel like he used me almost as an experiment or something to see what would happen to a player if he would just not let that player do anything, after doing a lot. This made me so mad that I stopped playing a sport that I enjoyed to play, even though I was not my favorite it was still a lot of fun to play, and I lost all respect for this man. This is an example of breaking a rule or maybe a promise and how it affected me.

Things like losing a spot on a sports team or not getting treated properly can affect people and how you are as a person. People take things to heart or too seriously; I will admit that I am a person who does take things to heart or to seriously. This is common among people no matter what culture, race, or ethnicity they are from. People are taught at a young age to obey their superior or elder which can have an effect on how people are around other people. With this being taught to someone at a young age will make it easier for that person to take things to heart or to take things too seriously.

Conditioning your body and mind to do something is a key factor to how this concept of seriousness affects you. Being conditioned at a young age makes it easier for that person to become accompany to doing whatever it is they are told. Doing this effects how you respond to things that are told to you. The younger you are the easier it is for you to become accustom to whatever it is you are told or taught. You lean and retain the most information when you are young making it is easy to pick up on things and remember them.

Taking things to seriously and taking things to heart go well with being a society’s outcast in many ways. With someone like my baseball couch lying to me made me think one thing when he really meant something else got to me and made me think, do other people do the same thing to me? This would then cause me to think too much about what was said and start to worry. Then I would not let whatever happened from bothering me for a couple of days. This affected me in a lot of different ways. I would feel depressed and down, mad, and hated to be around certain people. This bothered me more than anything and made me want to just give up and quite doing certain things, but I was able to keep going and never give up.

One thing I was taught was to never give up and quit, but certain things I realized were not worth sticking around for. I have been working with myself trying to get over this and have seen some improvement. I have been doing a lot better as I have gotten older and have matured and can say that most things that are told to me do not affect me as bad. I have realized that life is tough and the only way you can get through it is by accepting what people say to you and not letting it be personal.