I guess there must be a law that says you become like those you hang around because when I' m with my mamma， I can see how much we think alike (at least I' d like to think so). We were "visiting" one day when I was about fourteen years old. I had gotten into trouble for something at home (which I' m sure wasn' t my fault)， and Mamma listened to me talk and talk. After a while， she began to share with me， and I listened. Then to my surprise， I heard myself say something to her that she might have said to me. I said， "You know， Mamma， no matter how a child is disciplined， it will do no good unless the child receives the correction that is in the discipline." She was so pleased to hear the insight that after discussing the aspects of what I had discovered on my own. I allowed her to "brag" on me a while. I think she uses the law of "accentuate the positive， eliminate the negative" or as the Bible says in Numbers 14， "what you see is what you get." I hope that that' s a true law because my mamma sure says wonderful things about me—to me.
When I' m feeling hopeless or feeling completely frustrated， I hear Mamma' s words："Son， you' re not whipped until you' re whipped inside，" and "nothing is hopeless—there' s always an answer... If you look for it， you' ll find it inside yourself." These laws simply say， "Get up and get going！"
Now， most of us teenagers prefer answers to life' s problems in the form of a financially generous person. We don' t always want to use our minds to solve our problems， but when we do， we find a very important and wonderful law that says， "Youth is for living and learning to make tomorrow' s world a better place."
有些人出生在充滿愛和同情心的家庭，而有些人出生在令人難以忍受的環境中。無論一個人的生活多麽艱辛，我都相信至少會有一個人積極地影響和鼓勵他。對我來說，那個人就是我的祖母。