Soul of the Rebels

For today I have to write a three-stanza, four lines per stanza, song. I can write one for either the Loyalists or the Rebels, I’ve decided to do one for the Rebels. Forgive me if it doesn’t sound right, I’m not the best at songwriting.

This is the start
Begin the Rebellion
Betrayed by our hearts
Sound the bells of resilience!

We thought we had it all
We thought they could not fall
We thought to rule ourselves
They betrayed us by their bills

This is the start
Sound the bells of Rebellion
Betrayed by our hearts
Begin the resilience!

Meet us on the Battlefield
Bleed us on the Summerfields
Hear the song of Rebellion
See the birth of a brand-new nation!

We stand United
(a brand-new nation)
In America
(a brand-new nation)
This is Rebellion!

Do You Have It

The question is, do you have what it takes to start a business? To be an Entrepreneur? Most people probably don’t, and some can’t even learn how. Entrepreneurs are people who can sell things, people who start businesses and learn and adapt. They’re people who make the world work for them. Someone said, “Work smarter, not harder” and Entrepreneurs live by that code.

An Entrepreneur doesn’t do the grunt work, they’re smart enough to get someone else to do that work for them. A concept in work is that the grunt workers want payment now and the people at the head of the pack want to make the most money for as long as possible. Schools prep you to work for someone else, they never nurture what you’re good at. If you’re good at speech but bad at math, you’ll be tutored in math, and not in speech. Schools were made to make grunts. In reality, we don’t need public schools anymore, state-mandated schooling ruins people.
An Entrepreneur doesn’t expect a regular paycheck, and allowances tend to make kids expect that. I was lucky enough to not have an allowance, but my parents did make my brother and I work for the money we get. Entrepreneurs know how to work the system to get money, they know the work they need to do to get to the point where they don’t need to work as hard anymore.

The question is, do we have what it takes to do this? Most people don’t. Most people, including me, are prepped to work for other people. But I had the opportunities to learn what it means to be an Entrepreneur, and I’ve learned how to be smart enough to work like that. I still lack the skills to see what the world needs and fill that gap with a product, but my school is teaching me how.

This is the benefit of homeschooling over public schooling, and it’s invaluable.

Part-Timer

The question today comes from my economics class. Is it truly worth my time to get a part-time job? Now since I already have a part-time job, I am sure you already know the answer: yes. It is worth it. Why? Let me explain.

Life as a teenager is expensive, you need to get yourself things, be it video games or a car, and if you’re like me then your parents never gave you an allowance. If you wanted money, you either did something to get paid or you got it through birthdays or Christmas. Now not all people are raised this way, I know, but having a part-time job can be useful. It gives you skills and abilities as well as an appreciation of money and how valuable it can be.
Now I work at a hardware store, part-time in the winter, fall, and spring and full time in the summer. In my personal opinion, everyone should work at a hardware store at least for a year in their lifetime. I’ve learned valuable skills and gotten paid to learn these skills as well as do my job. Before this job, I was also a little socially inept, but dealing with customers and coworkers has slowly broken that shell.

It is worth my time to have a part-time job. Not only will it keep money in my pocket, but it also gives me valuable life lessons that I can utilize in other jobs.

Wilderness Views

John Cotton, John Winthrop, and Mary Rowlandson had varying views on the Puritan’s place in the wilderness, ranging from believing it was a fresh start to hating everything about it. First, however, what is the wilderness? It is simply a word describing a hardship or new experience, wild and untamed. It does not matter if the wilderness is an actual wilderness or not, the metaphor reaches out to the idea that the wilderness is an obstacle that we have to pass.

So how did John Cotton view the wilderness and the hardships of the Puritans? Cotton was a clergyman in England and wished Godspeed to the colonists, he did not believe he was needed just yet. It was his belief that the Puritans could have a place to call their own, a home for them in the New World. He wished to spread optimism and hope, assuring the colonists that the wilderness for them was indeed a blessing.

This is in stark contrast to Mary Rowlandson, who had been held captive by Natives for eleven weeks during King Philip’s War. She saw the Natives as savages, and always kept her mind on her scripture, being a woman of faith. She managed to stay hopeful through it all, comparing her life before captivity with her life in captivity, and though she was experiencing abuse, she managed to stay faithful to her Lord.

John Winthrop did not leave willingly. He was an English Puritan Lawyer and forced to move to the New World to escape prosecution for his Puritan practices, similar to what would happen to John Cotton. Winthrop wanted to keep the Puritan faith strong and would often compare what they were going through with the events of the exodus, which is a reasonable comparison. He saw the wilderness and uncertainty as an opportunity for him and the rest of the Puritans.

The wilderness is a scary place, and while it may be filled with uncertainty, these three authors understood that it was also filled with possibility. Opportunities to start again, separate from England. New things can be terrifying, but they usually reap the greatest of rewards.