Hadley Non Fiction

Bella has always been the favorite in the family. She is 8 years old now but we adopted her when she was just a few months old. When I was around nine, my dad told my family that we were going for a drive but he wouldn’t tell us where we were going. I was excited and confused because we had never done anything like this. I remember constantly asking where we were going until I annoyed everyone so much that my dad finally told us that we were going to look at puppies. At first, I thought he was joking. We had a chocolate lab, Molly, before but she had passed away a while before so I hadn’t really expected us to get a new dog so suddenly. We finally pulled up to the house and when we got out of our car, a swarm of yellow lab puppies ran up and I was in heaven. We played with the puppies for a while and finally decided on one of the girl puppies who seemed extra excited and really seemed to bond with us. We went into the house and paid for her then wrapped her in a blanket that smelled...

I have pondered the phrase ‘doing nothing’ for a long time. People are always doing something. Even if that means that you’re just sitting in a chair thinking, then you’re sitting in a chair thinking, not doing nothing. If you’re watching Netflix, then that is something that you are doing. I spend a lot of my time ‘doing nothing,’ but I don’t think of it that way. Society thinks that relaxation should not be counted as a good use of time but I disagree. Relaxation is essential to having a healthy brain. If you spent all of your time doing things and work then you would probably explode. I don't think it is possible to actually be ‘doing nothing.’ I tried to think of how it could be possible and the closest I could come was floating in space not moving, but then wouldn’t you still be floating? Even if you found something to do where you were doing nothing, you would still be breathing and your heart would still be beating. I’m not sure if I should count this as something you are ...