Jessica vs. Bella

Running with wolves and kissing vampires; Bella Swan from the Twilight novel saga leads a mythical and mysterious life. Though I do not run with wolves or kiss vampires, I find that I relate to Bella on a more personal level. Every person can relate to a fictional character based on personality and lifestyle; my personality, lifestyle, and interests resemble many aspects of the character Bella Swan, but there are certain aspects of my life that make me unique.

Bella’s personality is one of the many reasons that made the Twilight novels so appealing to me. In the book Bella is very independent and mature for her age. She took care of her mother emotionally, and when she moves in with her dad she takes over the cooking and cleaning. Growing up my sister and I had to take care of my mom, as she dealt with depression and a bipolar disease. After my parents separated, I took over the cooking and cleaning in my house. I had to grow up fast and learn life’s lessons early, because of my family situation. I find myself more mature than other people my age, which makes it hard to find people to relate to. In the novels Bella is shy around people she isn’t close to. She doesn’t reveal much about her personal life. I find that I am quiet and reserved around people I don’t know, but my close friends can’t get me to be quiet. Bella and I are different in a way that makes me jealous of her. Bella is a lot braver then I. She isn’t afraid of having a vampire boyfriend (Edward) and a werewolf best friend (Jacob). She takes risks, like riding motorcycles and cliff diving. When I was growing up even though I had to deal with a lot of issues that were beyond my age, I had a sister who tried to shelter me from evil. My sister would scare me into not doing things, and I just never grew out of being scared of things that are perceived to be dangerous. I wish I were brave and took risks like Bella. While reading the Twilight series, I was turned off by Bella’s selfish attitude that would arise. For example; she wanted to keep both Jacob and Edward around even though it was hurting them. I always think of others first. I don’t expect to have my cake and eat it too. I spend more time thinking of others then myself. Even though we have many similar personality traits our differences makes us unique.

Do nothing without a purpose!

If I had to create a bumper sticker that modeled my philosophy for life, it would be do nothing with out a purpose! Life can be short, so I don't want to waist my time doing things for no reason. I believe my purpose is to help people and to teach. I only do things that are necessary to reach my purpose. I think it's important for everyone to try to reach there goals and purpose in life.

To reach my purpose of teaching, I am going to further my education. It's important for people to further there education so they can see what they want to do with there life if they don't already know. But if people just take college classes for no reason then they wont get anything in return; therefor waisting there time. College should be taken seriously, you shouldnt go if you don't lmow what you want to get out of it.

If everyone did things without reason, then no one would have any desire to do better. Having a purpose or goals, make you stay on track. So I set small reasonable goals for myself that lead up to my main goal and purpose. There is no point to do things that wont help you get to your purpose.