Digital Voices

Tom’s speech 

Attitude

I believe in attitude. Attitude influences your life and others. If your attitude is bad and you talk down to people, then you’re changing their mood. Attitude can be a bad thing at times but normally a very good thing. When things get you down what happens to your attitude? You start to get upset or angry and some people get violent or just quit and don’t say or do anything. Everyone has their own way to deal with things.
But what happens to your attitude when things are going your way? You start to feel happy, upbeat and like you can do anything. In other words you have this confidence about you that no one can take away. When you have that kind of confidence people may look at you in a whole different way. For example when I thought life was at its worst was when I turned 14. I had the attitude that nothing can get worse, and then one day it all got worse. I was put on probation for the first time in my life and I thought that I was going nowhere and was going to be nothing. It took me a very long time to realize life could be worse. I got out of trouble and took responsibility for my actions by working to change my attitude; I realized life is not that bad. I don’t have it as bad as some of the other kids do out there. I’m close to graduating, I have a job, and I plan on going into the military.
I believe in attitude. If you carry yourself well at an important event like a job interview the boss might hire you for the job over a person that has an attitude like I don’t care about anything. Your attitude can take you a long way or it can take you nowhere. With an attitude towards life that everything could be a lot worse you will go somewhere great. With the attitude towards life that nothing can get any worse you will go nowhere. I’ve witnessed this kind of attitude from a family member of mine. When he was a teenager he had the attitude towards life that nothing can get worse and he has gone nowhere. He has been in prison since he was 19 years old; he just got out after turning 25. Your attitude is everything; everything that any one does is inspired by their attitude and how they feel. Other people’s attitudes are affected by your attitude also. I have been in a bad mood before and my attitude has changed others’ moods. This is very common. Attitude is based on your mood and the way you carry yourself.
I believe in attitude.

What I understand about pod casting now is that you can do it on line. You don’t have the worry about others looking at you all the time even though they are looking at you. Some things that I noticed about the sounds, is that you can hear who is talking on them. You and others will be able to listen to the speeches more clearly.
I listened to the Leaving Work to Gaze at Sunsets essay. I selected this piece because I thought that I would understand what she was talking about. What stood out to me about this essay is that she is a hard worker and at the same time she doesn’t want to run herself into the ground all the time just for her job because she wants to spend time at home with her family. The fact that she is like her dad in so many ways and that I am also like my dad in so many ways is memorable to me.