Putting Someone Down

How one sentence can ruin someone’s day

“When you're marginalized, there are no "them people," if we're all on the outskirts of the same margin.”
― Darnell Lamont Walker



        Some people are just put to the side; furthermore, I see this sometimes in my life. One example of this is when a kid who was autistic was excluded in my friends game of hide and seek.

I came over to my friends house on a mild fall day in 2012 for a Hanukkah, and we decided we would play hide and seek while we were waiting for dinner. My friends house was relatively small, but they had a massive backyard with a lot of trees to disguise with. My friend has an autistic brother named John, who is very caring and nice, but has a hard time figuring out social and emotional cues.

We met up in the center of their back yard. We were practically surrounded by stout bushes and stumpy pines. We got into a circle and decided who the seeker should be. John was involved in trying to find a squirrel in the bush. I thought he might want to play with us, so I called out to him. “John, do you want to join us?” He nodded his head, but one not so kind friend said “He can’t play with us! He doesn't know how to.” This was incredibly mean because John did know how to play—like almost everyone in the world— and I am sure that the rude friend did not want John to play because he was different than us. In the end, John was excluded because of someone’s lack of empathy.

I wish this situation never happened. John most likely went to bed that night feeling terrible. Empathy could of fixed this situation. If that rude friend didn’t say those hurtful words, John would of had a great time; on the other hand, that friend could of just learned how to be empathetic to people slightly different than us, which would make everything ok. I wish people knew how to be tolerant to matters like these.

 Remember The Golden Rule: Treat others the way you want to be treated.

 An Experience With a Friend

How working with an friend can just flow

Anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you.

-Misty Copeland 


Working together as a team can be amazing; furthermore, for me, I find this to be very true. One example of this is when Panha and I worked very well together in a science lab. For Science class, we have ben burning foods to capture and calculate their calories. To do this, you out a can of water over the burning foods, and with some math, you can find out the calories by the amount of degrees the water heats up. For this lab, Panha and I decided we would work together to make this project easier. On the day of the lab, we were a little excited. We agreed that I would do the testing, and that Panha would record all of the data. This allows opus to be very efficient with our work. We set the foods on fire individually, and recorded the data. The feeling of quickly running through a tough assignment is awesome. We were the first ones in the class to finish, and we had accurate data. This experience was important to me because it shows how well Panha and I work together as a team. This gives me a good idea of how I can work with people, and how I can be a leader, but also a follower. Teamwork makes the dreamwork.