Yet Another Week....

                    Dear Reader,
This week we I worked on forgiveness. I had started work on my AP World History book critique and my little sister deleted all my work. All three pages of it. I was ready to drop kick her to China. I took a step back and used the Void. The Void is a place in your mind where you focus on a flame and feed your emotions into the flame. I use the Void to fight. It helps me focus on my opponent and side line everything else. It also calms me down. Once I was calm I looked back up at my little sister and smiled. I told her it was all right. Then I sat down and started over.

Another week gone

This week I worked on compassion. For the first part of the week I could barely see anything out of my left eye. On Wednesday I went to the doctors and they fixed my eye pretty well. Medical magic I guess. The big part of this was the compassion I learned to have. My little sister sometimes complain about hurting herself I the dumbest and most illogical of ways. I find it almost impossible to comprehend her ability to make stupid mistakes. And then here I go and almost lose and eye because I didn't listen to my grand mother. Bravo past me. Bravo. So now I have more sympathy for my little sister. And I am a little more understanding.

A nasty suprise that forces patience.

This week was faster than last week. I'm used to a nice easy slow pace since I was homeschooled most of my life. Any way, fast weeks make for little time to work on virtue. I managed to work on patience. I was breaking branches in my grandmothers backyard yesterday and one of the branches snapped into my left eye. I'll be wearing a patch and antibacterial cream for the next ten days. The thing is, my grand mother had told me to take my time and to be careful. I have little patience so I took little heed to her advice. Sure enough, I'm paying for it now. I learned a valuable lesson and I am not going to forget this anytime soon.

                 Dear reader,
                                  This week has presented challenges and good opportunities. The week went by so fast it was hard to keep track of everything done and everything said. I did my best to be a little more understanding and patient with other people. I had a conversation with a girl on Wednesday after our gym class had ended. she had just broken up with a guy she had been with for three years. once she was done speaking I told her it wasn't the end of the world and then I tried to give her some advice. It probably sounded really bad, but I did my best. Then I had this one guy on Thursday insult me pretty badly. Normally I would have just gone ahead and decked him, but instead I told him that if he wanted to be a man he should fight me. I told him that if he wouldn't fight me then he had no business insulting me. Not the most graceful approach, but effective. And I was in control. this is most likely the first time I took it that easy on some one.
                      That's all for now. I will be back next week with an update on my progress.
             Sincerely,
             Malcolm McMillan