All Those Who Wander: February 2010

Thursday, February 4, 2010

S-P-E-L-L

Today was the school spelling bee! I had made it into the class top 6, then the grade top 6, so of course I got into the school spelling bee. After what seemed like an eternity (which was spent wishing I could disappear) it was my turn. (I was second to last.) After eight intense rounds, it was down to the final three, which was me and two other people. One person spelled squawking s-q-u-a-k-i-n-g, and the other spelled antonym a-n-t-o-n-y-h-m, so I won. The winning word: medicate. And the best part is, I get to go to the Utah Valley spelling bee, and I'm now extremely popular.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
We must try not to sink beneath our anguish, Harry, but battle on.
People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
If you’re holding out for universal popularity, I’m afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.
Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open. We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.
Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.
Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that.
--
Dumbledore