Nicolas Ayres
World Lit & Comp 2
6th Hour
I Believe in Miracles
A better future is ensured when you believe in miracles. People need some sort of inspiration to do good at anything. Whether it is walking on water or throwing some trash into the recycling, every act has its inspiration. There is nothing more inspiring than a good miracle though, miracles change lives.Sometimes a miracle can be misunderstood though and that's what causes people to not believe in the magic of miracles. So the first and most important thing then, when it comes to miracles, would be understanding exactly what a miracle is.
Miracles are when you see an underdog triumph, or when you sink that half court shot, and even when you sink that cross classroom recycling bin shot. An important thing to know about miracles is sometimes you can make a miracle happen except you actually messed up to cause this miracle. Like when try that half court shot and just under throw the ball so it goes right under the hoop and bounces straight back on to the rack you took the ball off of. In life what happens is far more important than what was meant to happen. In the seventh grade my science class played a review game before a quiz where the class was divided in half. My half was losing so bad that our team and their team wanted to restart, besides me being the eternal optimist was the only one saying lets win this from the beginning, so we could stand a chance, but the teacher refused and said that we just weren't trying hard enough. At that point it was game on. Fast forward to the last question of the game. Score is tied up, both teams feeling the pressure after that crazy comeback, and the question is asked.
The world we live in has always had haters accompanied by a range of names. Haters tend to not believe in miracles because that means that either they got the ass end of one or they can only get the miracles in disguise. The great part about the miracle being against you though is that...