Tuesday, August 10, 2010

08/10/10 Blog Post: Enemies

In True Notebooks the boys discuss what makes a person an enemy. What is an enemy to you? Does an enemy form from jealousy, hatred, etc.? Explain.

13 comments:

  1. To become an enemy of me your actions have to attack me personally wether physical, mental, or emotional and affect me to the point where the result is irreversible. If this is the case, the title enemy, will be deemed upon you in my "book". However, because of the patience I've gained over the years and the practice on a daily basis. It'll take some very serious circumstances to even get me to that point. At the end of the day I truly hate no one..it is only others who will hate me wether it stems from jealousy, hatred, or just complete ignorance.

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  2. I believe being someone’s enemy has a lot of aspects to it. Jealousy and hatred are for sure some of them but I think to be someone’s "enemy" you have to literally despise the person. Most of the time an enemy used to be one of your former friends that turned into the enemy that they are today. An enemy to me is someone who you can't be in the presence of, someone who every time you hear their name there is always a bad remark made about them. For the jealousy aspect of an enemy, the jealousy mostly isn't coming from you it’s coming from the other person. I wouldn't say that I have any "enemy" but I do know people who I can't be around but I wouldn't go as far to call them my enemy cause at one point they were friends of mine. But as time changes so do people which can turn someone into an enemy.

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  3. An enemy to me is someone who is out to get you for revenge. That person envies you for a reason. An enemy is a jealous person who always has a some type of malice in their heart to talk about a person. They want something you have and can't get it so they are hating on you. Enemies does form from jealousy. In some cases, the enemy is mostly someone you call your best friend. Then one day that all changes and that friend stabs you in the back. Especially when it comes to girls the best friend will get jealous because they like your boyfriend. They will do anything in their will power to cause problems. The best solution is to let that enemy walk out of your life and never have anything to deal with them again.

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  4. I don’t have any enemies first off. I love everybody no lie I see the beauty within a person. Sometimes people just don’t think and just do things. What an enemy is to me? An enemy is a person who u really dislike. You have hate in your heart for that person you don’t want to see any good come towards them. I feel that you should never feel that way about a person we are all children of God and we should not hate one another maybe dislike their ways (the things they do) but not them.

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  5. I believe that an enemy is someone who disrespected you on regular biases. An enemy comes from hatred and it’s not an enemy if they somehow still care about you, which just mean they dislike you. An enemy does not like you at all, and therefore give you all kinds of hell. I don’t believe that jealousy is what makes a enemy because, you’re just mad because someone has something you or the other person don’t have, and you can easily get over that and move on. Enemies with an enemy stay on each other minds and try to find out how they can win their hatred battle with one another.

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  6. An enemy to me is a person who would talk behind my back, make jokes about me and disrespect me. I find all three of those things very offensive to me and I wouldn’t like to be around that person. A lot of people in my school used to talk behind my back or made fun of me to their other people. When someone does that to me I find them as an enemy. People would always mess around with me in high school but most of the time it was my really good friend and I knew that they were just pushing my buttons. Then there would be people that would talk behind my back and tell a person a lie about me. It still happened when I got out of school some people I knew made fun for no reason or for the smallest things such as a little part of my hair was messed up or how I said certain things. Another enemy to me is someone that picks on my brother in high school. I had gone to high school with my brother for 2 years and many people picked on him and my friend would defend them and tell me what happened in this class or in the hall way. I find that person who bullies around my brother an enemy in my book because my brother is different compared to the kids that are in his class and there is no reason to do that.

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  7. Hatred, jealousy, and back stabbing are some key characteristics of an enemy. Enemies normally want to see you fail and not make it were you want. In life enemies to me are very helpful and push me to be better and do unto others what I would want done to me. Sometimes your enemies are closer than you think it could be like your family, friends, teachers, boyfriend/girlfriend, and it can even be you as your worst enemy. My haters are my enemies because they talk about me, go behind my back and do things that are not cause for. I use my haters as a stepping stool because when they talking about I know that I am doing something right and that I strike and interest in to have my name Shawntara L. Mathis in their mouths. I’ve come to realize that no matter where you go there are always going to be someone waiting to tear you up or try to destroy you. Most enemies do things to people that mean something to them because of an insecure self esteem that person has upon themselves.

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  8. What Makes an enemy? Define enemy is my question. Does this person have rival qualities? Does he or she endanger your safety and resouces? Well I suppose that I'm the one that is suppose to be answering the questions. An enemy by my personal definition would be someone that I feel endangered by, and they feel the same toward me. An enemy in my eyes would be someone that I despise. Someone that in order for me to feel secure this person must not be present. An enemy is someone that I fight often. Someone that I might be in constant embattlement with. Which yes is a rival quality, but in the terms of our 21st century way of living the term enemy has evolved as such. One can also argue that rival has turned into enemy and enemy into mortal enemy. So an enemy to me is someone that I cannot co-exist with. I hope I like my roomates.

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  9. I feel as though I could go on and on about this topic in terms of an enemy. I’ve had various enemies in my life through my teenage years. In my eyes, an enemy does not have to be someone who is opposing you on a team or someone you don’t know. It can simply be one who isn’t looking out for your best interest, or further-more doesn’t care, whether you know them or not. Personally, on almost every occasion, my enemies were my closest friends. I’ve had enemies arise from jealousy as well as something that I wasn’t sure of. What I mean to say is, there have been lots of times where the friend I thought I was close to and could share things with was really the same individual going behind my back or trying to disgrace my name. An enemy can also be someone who is competing against you and will do whatever they can to knock you down, but isn’t necessarily rude about it. While expanding on this, I’ve come to the conclusion that there is no true definition for an enemy, even if the dictionary says so. I feel that it is all based on the individual and their past experiences. It is much harder for me to explain then I thought it would be. I suppose my enemy depends on the situation.

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  10. An enemy to me is someone that is either out to get you trying to hurt you or get something that you have that they may not have,also called (HATERS). In this day in age you can get an enemy from the way you dress the way act anything although it might seem a bit petty but it’s real.

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  11. I’m my own biggest threat or in other words enemy. In the context of I am the only one that can let me down, constantly beat myself up, and stop myself from achieving greatness. At the end of the day when you really take the time to stop and think you might be the reason why your life isn’t going the way you want it to. The largest critic in your life is you believe it or not because nobody can really limit you but yourself. It’s one thing to say you’re going to make it and another thing actually making it happen. We all like to say things that we want but do we all really try our best to make it happen. If you want things to change in your life then make the changes just don’t sit back and take what comes. If you have the mindset that nobody can stop me then me you will reach a higher level where anything and everything is possible. Just because it hasn’t been done before or it has been done before should never stop you. If it’s been done before do it better, if it hasn’t been done before create it and be the greatest at it. Live life as if your biggest enemy is the person you see in the mirror every day, then and only then can you have all that you want and more because the only one that can limit you is you.

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  12. In True Notebooks, Francisco stated that “An enemy is somebody who disrespects you, or who disrespects your neighborhood.” (111). Throughout high school, it was easy to observe jealousy not only within myself but with others. Two of my best friends hated each other senior year because one went out with the others ex-boyfriend. The jealousy took over one of my friends so much that it was a good enough reason to make the other her worst enemy. I believe that an enemy should only be someone who has harmed you or your family in a life threatening way. Life is too short and precious to have enemies.

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  13. Enemy - A person who feels hatred for. That is the dictionaries definition of enemy, but my definition of enemy is: a person that caused a conflict between someone. An enemy can form from many things, words you say or even body language. For an example, everyone at school get on the train or get a ride home, but I drive a Luxury car everyday to school . Because I drive a nice car to school people think different of me as if I’m all that or they say the car isn’t mine, THAT’S JEALOUSY… Hatred For an example, I wear name brand clothing to school and stay kept to myself, girls at school judge me as I look and hate to see me because they think I’m conceited, THAT’S HATRED…

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