What does it mean to lead a meaningful life? Amanda Trobaugh

     If you go through life making the right decisions and not regretting any of them, you have done the best you could have done. To me, a meaningful life is never regretting a decision you make in your life and being the most successful you can be while having the most fun you've ever had.

     The first step is accepting the fact that everybody makes mistakes, some people more than others. Those people have to have the ambition and courage to just accept it, move on with their lives, and fix the mistake. If the mistake is unfixable, you have to move on from it with a smile in your heart knowing you WILL find that chance to make it better the next time.
    
     Another part to having a meaningful life is being the most successful person you can be. When I say that I mean that you need to be successful in your own way. Most people have numerous definitions of successful life but do not follow their definition, follow yours. If you follow your own definition and you are successful and happy, then there is nothing else you need to do.

     When I think of someone with a meaningful life, I think of my dad. My dad has been through so many things in life that have broke him down but he has brought himself back up and is never better. My dad is the youngest child of five brothers and sisters. When my dad was a little kid and his brother was in his teens, his brother died in a drunk driving accident. When my dad was in his teens, both of his parents died, his father first dying of lung cancer and his mother second a year after dying in a car accident. Life was really hard for my dad but those were some of the little things my dad has been through in his life and there is so much more. Right now my dad is working his tail off, fighting a lot of things on the way and he has never been better. When I am going through tough times and I need someone to talk to or bring me back up, I look to my dad. My dad will forever be my role model and I know that nothing will ever change that.

"Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it." -Bruce Lee

Riley McCain, significant life

significant life

 

I think a significant is a life where you enjoy where you are and who you are surrounded by. it is critical to live in a place that you like because if you don't like where you live that means that you are not happy. the people you are surrounded by is also a key part of having a meaningful life because in order to be happy you have to be around people you like. The last thing I think is part of having a meaningful life is to live life to the fullest. People need to go out of there comfort zone and do stuff that not everybody does

And in the end, its not the years in your life that count its the life in your years - Abraham Lincoln

When I think of somebody who has had a significant life I think of my great grandma. She has seen many things in her lifetime, she has seen the invention of automobiles to telephones to even running water. What those  huge inventions  were to what they are now is amazing, hybrid cars to cell phones and all of the technological advances. When I was two years old my great grandpa  past away from Parkinson's disease. After grandpa was gone grandma still was able to have a drivers license until she was 94, soon after she just started getting weak and in may she was moved to the nursing home. in September all of her children, grandchildren and great grand children all gathered together te celebrate her 95th birthday. Because of all of the things Great grandma has gone through in her life that is why I think she has had a significant life.