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Inhale The Future
And Exhale The Past
y name is Pityas
Zerabruk. I am from
Ethiopia and I am
happy to be a student at Carlos
Rosario Public Charter School.
I often miss my family and my
beautiful country. So I start to
feel sad. Then I practice an ex-
ercise in breathing and med-
itation about my friends and
schoolmates. All possibilities
of freedom, choices, and con-
tinuity of life are contained in
each breath. Everything I dream
of and desire, together with my
family and friends, comes in-
side my lungs and my body
through the oxygen that travels
through my blood. This is fresh
oxygen. It gives me strength
and vigor and optimism. Then new air is fresh and gives me
I feel better because my body is energy. The future becomes
re-energized.
my present. Breathing in and
breathing out, I enter the rhythm
Then I exhale, and I let go of all of life and I become one with
that is old, ugly, and pessimis- the trees and plants, and all the
tic. My worries go away when I animals around the world.
breathe out. My lungs are clear
of negative feelings and fears. My dear schoolmates and
The present is the only moment friends, I wanted to share this
that is real. The past does not with you, as an exercise and a
exist anymore and it will never meditation. It is for your bod-
return. The future is uncertain ies, your minds and your souls.
and it is yet to come, but the You will be happier and have
future also waits for me. As I more peace.
go through each day, breathing Have a wonderful Spring Se-
keeps me filled with the health mester, 2019.
and energy that I need to con-
quer all the challenges that I en- Your friend,
counter along the way. When I
Pityas Zerabruk
breathe deeper and deeper, the
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