[Aloysius]

Leonard9 - the fact that you can't tell if Born2Loose is being a "smart ass" or not speaks volumes...

This essay needs a good amount of work imo. Or just to be thrown out entirely. The whole essay is framed as a "life changing experience", but how your life, or his life, or anyone's life, is changed is not seen at all. I guess, with your concluding paragraph, you tell the reader you learned that "having a positive attitude is important for many of life's endeavors."

First, that's not "a life changing experience." Second, that's just realizing something really [censored]' obvious to any moran with half a brain, which, as a general rule, is not a great essay topic.

Best of Luck,
-Al