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= I believe in preparing =

====**Many people don''t realize how important it is to prepare for the future ,but in the commencing of fifth grade I realized that no matter what you do to organize or think through any thing ,there is no better way to get ready for something than to prepare your self for more than what might come up next week. But to prepare your life in little pieces like to plan for the next school year. Make lists of what to do and what not to do. I believe that preparing for the future is important for a number of reasons like being prepared, having a better job ,even a better future and a smarter generation. Preparing for the future is preparing the world.**==== ====**Planing your life and that's why you will have better resalts in life and you can set expectations and guide lines for what to do and your goals good to be prepared because then there are no surprises and you know whats coming ahead and there won't be any surprises you will turn homework in on time and you get better grades so there are some resonse why being prepared is fabulouse.**==== ====**For example my friend was going into middle school and she was freaking out but she settled down and made a list of things she needed to organize her self and she made another list of things that she expected. Her sister helped her with that. And when she got to school she was so prepared she never had any problems that year even when the teachers targeted her and made her do every thing for them. She took care of every thing she got all A's and she even got an award for doing so exalent. Well in it wasn't a plaque but it was still an award .**==== ====**My sister was going into middle school at a cherry creek school were all the kids there were really rich, snoty, bratty and very envious over each other, plus got every thing they wanted and they didn't treat they didn't people that they didn't know and they were mean to my sister so she decided that all there mean comments were not going to get to her. And they were not going to hurt her feelings. So she started to think of ways to avoid getting mad and upset at them and I helped her come up with ways to ether ignore them or to have good comebacks that were too mean but so that they wouldn't bother her. As you can see you can prepare your self in different ways.**==== ====**Also if you are more prepared you will be at the top of the class and you will have the opportunity's to be challenged and to be dumbfounded about what you can do. If you do well in one unit you might know what the next unit will be.** **And that's why you will have better resalts in life and you can set expectations and guide lines for what to do** **and you will do well ,if you are prepared.**====

====**Preparing for the future really means for the future. If you prepare for the future for the reset of your life your generation will be better in several ways. Are generation will be smarter by preparing for the future,there will be exlant electronic energy, that will save enviermental resorcese.**==== ====**There will be better economy with bright ideas, more ways to make money, find better job's for the people. You also might have a exellent job because of all your smarts and because you found out that you like doing doctor stuff or you like to explore so you become a explorer or you might find your talent in singing so you become a rock star. Because you prepared, and tried out things that you like and then some thing that you didn't and eventually you found some thing that you liked and then prepared to keep on doing it even through the hard times of it.**==== ====**People think that good eduction is all you need to get a good job but its the preparing that helps you to. So preparing your self to try different things can really help you find what you for a job. You will be more experienced too. Sometimes you'll prepare for things that other people will not like like quiting a school activity or stopping a team rec center sport. But this way you can narrow things down to what sports you like and what you don't like. Sometimes you can eliminate a hole entire section of what you wanted to try out if you prepare your self to try and then quit.**==== ====**Quiting is hard, but thats why we need to prepare are self about what to say how to react and whether or not you need to take to the next level of demanded to stop doing what doesn't bring joy and then start something that will bring joy. which leads me to my next reason that preparing for the future is important. I was in a school band program that was to teach you how to do notes how to make beats and how to become a better musician. But I didn't think that this brought me joy as did theater or choir. So it took a battle to quit because I aparently I sign a contract that stated i would go the whole year doing band but if it didn't bring you joy then way do it. I went through so much stress that if you said the word band i would get so mad I would cry and fill a hole bath tub. So why do it? I did quit and started doing things that I liked the most, like theater.**====

====**Finally, preparing for the future gives you less trepidation which can actually affect your body in a negative way. It can make your grades go down and then you might have to do the grade again. And who likes that! With less stress you can be more positive and you can get better grades and with that happening you can be proud and your parents will be to. Elizabeth, I think that life is stress like Food, college, getting jobs, Money, Getting Car, Homework, Passing school, commit to things, find good home and stress from other people. Stress is life and if you prepare for it there is less stress which leads to a better life. Markell has a story about how preparing for the future helps her to have less stress. I've always been worried about the future and I've always wondered what youll do in the future, one of the times that really helped was when i heard this news story about how many people were out of work and i decided to write down what i needed to do to get a good education so i could get a good job when i grow up! Also Alise has a one way that helped her have less stress that proved that preparing for the future has given her less stress.One way to help me prepare for the future and give me less stress is feeling good of what I'm getting to use in class and feel good about it instead of feeling really bad about it and thinking about the other girls and what their going to have.**====

====**As you can see preparing for the future is important in various ways. More people need to do this because are world will be better and smarter and we will be able to do more for those who need more than us. I belive that preparing for the future is important because we will more perpared for what comes ahead we will have a very better future and a smarter one and all of us will be less stressed out. America needs a better way of doing things and I think that I found the answer. Preparing for the future is preparing the world.**====

Lauren, I see that you are off to a really good start for your essay! Your introduction explains and makes a connection to 5th grade. Your first paragraph is most impressive, because your personal story really illustrates how preparing will help you succeed. The one spot that I was confused while reading was your very first sentence. It's a little long! How can we make that more clear and understandable? I can't wait to see your next paragraphs!