Ben's Blog

     Listed below are 3 positive things that happened each day of this past week for a consecutive 7 days:  Pictures!! Day 1:  Day 2: Day 3:  Day 4:  Day 5:                                   Day: 6 Day 7: Reflection:      During this past week, I pushed myself to make the best out of each day. Although there isn't always much cushion room when you have a super busy schedule, I was able to spend time having fun and making the best out of every situation. It's very difficult to sit down at the end of every night and actually think of the good things that went on during your day. I noticed a lot of the good things that happened were because of my own doing, rather than the people around me doing things for me. They are not wrong when they say it is up to you to make it a good day or not. This week has been an exciting self realization for me. Although you can only see the good that made its way through my days, I've realized I have a lot of good t

     This month is mental health awareness month, which means it's a time show gratitude for all the people who have helped others go through the worst of mental pain and be there for the people in our lives who have suffered from such symptoms as anxiety to anger and even loss.      This past week, I got the opportunity to interview a special person in my life who has experienced such metal illnesses, and I was able to listen and  hear their story, one of the millions of stories out there which need to be heard. As the information that will be discussed in this blog post is private to the person and the person does not want to be named, I will instead use the fake name Alice to describe them.       Alice, a couple years back, had been going through a rough time in her life, as her parents were, at the moment, in the process of getting divorced, and she could not do anything about it. She felt powerless and worthless, blaming herself as a reason for one of the reasons