I sat straight up, as if a knife had been stabbed into my back, and could not go back to sleep. ... As the sun peeked its head over the lip of the earth, I could already tell what a perfect day it was going to be. It seemed like hours as I lay there waiting for my father to come bursting in the door to tell me it was time. ... I was going to my first football game; not only a football game but also the super bowl. ...

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My walk with God falls before everything else because it is probably the most important thing I or anyone else has going on in their lives. Next in line would come my family, although at times we think differently, we always come together and things are alright. As previously mentioned having a relationship with God must fall before everything else, one day that relationship will mean a lot when we are judged in heaven He looks back on our lives and judges us. ... As you look back you can see over time history repeats is self over and over again with time. ...

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It's far easier to go through life excepting everything you are taught, and never challenging anything or anyone. Later he goes on to talk about how in ones lifetime he has the chance to excommunicate himself from the "cave" (prison) and gain more knowledge about himself and other people. ... But you can't just live your life on your own, Socrates says: later you are going to have to come back to society and even though things may not be right there, at least you will know who you are, and see things as they truly may be....

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The Prince "The Prince" is a political handbook written by Niccolo Machiavelli as a gift for the Medici family in hope that it would get him back in the family's good grace. ... Politics, and things of that nature really are not my favorite subject to read about, so getting into "the prince" I knew it was going to be quite a chore to get through. ... Machiavelli never really says anything that comes across as all that profound to me. ...

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