for the benefit for one’s self but risks that may lead to the downfall of life as you know it. Risk is a way to expand your limits and also a way to endanger your health (class room textbook information).At one point my mother enrolled into an institution that was a way to wellness camp and in this camp were people of all types who took something that gave them a temporary since of wellness and reality caught up with them. This camp was segregated between the men and the women. These two groups would only interact when there was a group meeting or a reward function for the camp and in those particular situations they were allowed to interact with one another. I was fairly young and I was allowed to interact with both groups, the segregation rule was strictly because sexual communication was prohibited. At this camp I met all kinds of people some strange and some quite normal, the more normal seeming ones only appeared lonely and depressed because their lives did not turn out how the intended them to. Every so often I would paint with a group of women, this would occur about once a week. I only remember two of the women out of the group. I remember their hair and how they both had long blond hair, one’s curlier than the other. The curly haired one always brought the paint and always had a problem she talked about. The curly haired woman was not very friendly but her friend who I did like, the blond straight haired woman, was very friendly and helped me paint from time to time. She also taught me that I could mix paints to make new colors. For some reason I remember I made a greenish-yellow color that I called the snake color and I was so proud of my self. I felt I did something that no one else could do and it boosted my self-esteem. Self-esteem as says by Webster’s revised unabridged dictionary it is the holding of a good opinion of one's self; self-complacency. At that time I needed it since I had no friends my age an...
