So I helped my cousin out with his english homework for college...

Hes been shit outta luck with time and has a bunch of shit to do for school and work so I'm helping him out by doing these bullshit journal assignments for him. I don't update this thing too much anymore so I figure why not enter it in here since its something I wrote.

He just needs something to turn in to his teacher, so I didn't bother spending too much time on it or revising. So its sloppy and poorly written but fuck it. Here it is.

The journal subject was this quote by Shirley MacLaine:

"…in order to get the fruit of the tree, you have to go out on a limb."

The journal entry:

All too often do we find ourselves stagnant in the face of potential reward and gain. We all want but so few are willing to take the risks necessary to get those wants. To some, the comfort of stagnancy blinds the will to take a direction toward a greater but potentially riskier change or outcome. There is no progress with this mind set. Those who bear this chain on their judgments will forever be stagnant in the sloth of the lives they call their own. They wait for the good of this life to come to them, however, the fruit of the tree rarely falls right into the palms of our hands.

There are also those whom have already risked and have lost in the process. They had stuck their necks out and were left with their heads hung low to the floor and the bitter taste of failure and of loss dripping from their wordless disheartened mouths. What they take from this and how they run with it determines how they go about getting the things they want in the future or if they surround themselves within a shell of cowardice and fear. Fear becomes a terrible barrier and the fear of failure through the eyes of reality is the fear of living. Once a person replaces oxygen for fear, they have begun selling their lives short. However, there are still those whom pick themselves up, mend their wounds, ask themselves what they had learned from it all, and continue to take their steps forward. Their will is undeterred and unbroken by the misfortunes of their pasts. Realizing that it remains to the end an experiment of reorienting oneself to a world of uncertainty, they carry their history with them, but do not let it bury them. The fruits of this life can be worth their risks.