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“I don’t think my opinions are stupid and others do, so its better to keep them to my self.”

Dear Anne,

 I have been in many positions where I have kept my opinions to myself in fear of looking stupid. In your particular position I don’t think you should have to do this. I think that the best possible way for you to thoroughly understand the problem, you would have to communicate your ideas a couple more times and when they say that they are stupid, you should ask why. When you ask them this question and they do not have an official answer that you can say ‘yes you are right’ to you know that they just say that your thoughts are pointless because they are tired or stressed or even just worried. On the other hand if they have an answer that you can relate to, then you should keep most of your feelings to your self. Yet not all for your thoughts are important and can hurt you if you don’t let them out. Unfortunately to say, throughout this adventure you have been some what of a brat and maybe after all of this they have begun to get used to this brat-ness and think that whatever you say will be appointed to you or what you want. A new form of talking would definitely change their minds on how to think of you. If you could one day just sit down and not say any opinions on things and here what they talk about maybe you could try to put your words sounding more like theirs.

            A bit of topic, I believe that the most effective way to get your ideas to others, to make friends, and to be successful is to speak your mind. You should not be afraid of who you are. Though you must understand that I do not mean that you should be loud, annoying, and obnoxious, but instead express yourself in a very soft but efficient way. \

            You of course can not forget friendship. I believe that the reason you and Peter are falling in love is because you talk to him about your thoughts, favors in music and art, he sits, listens, and agrees. Once you share the same ideas you can really relate and go deeper into your thought. I also believe that another benefit of discussing your thoughts with someone  would be that you would become less one sided and will begin to understand all the sides of a story.

            In conclusion I am happy that you have found someone to talk with. Keep trying and take your time, it will not come all at once. Don’t be afraid to speak your mind.

                         Many times I feel like Anne at that moment. Most of the fights I get myself into with my mother are about how she treats my eleven year old sister. She’s always blabbering on about how she even treats me differently, yet, lets say my sister has the TV control, she would leave, and I would get scolded for taking the remote (even though she wasn’t touching it). Many times we’ll be playing and I’ll accidentally hit her and because I am the older one, I will get punished. Another thing that my parents are very lenient on is my sisters eating habits. She has developed a very organized chart of what she likes in her mind. Many times she will have to eat what she gets, but many times they let her go while I have to eat whatever I get; thought it is not like all the time, even though they are quite unfair, most of the times they try to make it as fair as possible for us. In Anne’s position I know that she tends to be stubborn but I would advise her of not fighting back at things so worthless. Once in a while if the cause is bigger than that of which she talks about in her book, then yes she could fight back. I recommend this because I am a user of this method and it saves me of many scoldings.

If I was to bring one thing into the secret annex I would definitely bring my laptop. I would bring my Laptop because it would be an easy way to communicate with others outside of the annex. Not only this but it also is a form of entertainment from which I could use MSN or I could download movies or just play Internet games. Another reason why i would bring it is because it is quiet and easily transported anywhere at anytime. In addition to bring this item, I would bring any source of music most probably an ipod. I would bring this because I love music, i play the piano, and love making beats. Without music I believe that I would not survive in the Secret annex, just as Anne would have probably not made it through without her diary. One last thing that I would bring would a Jump rope. Many times in bordom I find that excersize helps me relieve stress and anger, i would need a quiet way of excersizing in order to keep mt self in shape and to release some of my stress and anger.

Courage

To me Courage is a very broad word. There are many different types of courageous people but the meaning can vary wildly. For example, to me, one big way of being courageous is to face ones fears whether its to get a vaccine or to fight a dragon! Another way of showing courage would be to do something that your not scared of but still know you must do because it is right. For example you could save someone’s life, even though your not scared of swimming you still jump in the water and save the drowning citizen because it is right. Even though everyone wants to be courageous there is definitely a fine line in between courageousness and stupidity. Many people think they are courageous when they stand up to the bully and get beat up. Even though it’s the right thing to do you will end up getting hurt, instead you could be less courageous and just tell a guardian and get the problem over with. That is what courage means to me.