What is your gift?

What is your talent?

Do people encourage you to develop your talent?

Do some people discourage you from applying your talent?

What if it meant loosing your family?

Would you still use it?

What if it meant losing everything …

… but YOUR GIFT?

Would you still use it?

Would you still seek to be the best?

My Name Is Asher Lev Chaim Potok If You don't want me to use the gift, why did You give it to me? (119)

Have you ever done something amazing …

… and not been recognized?

What about that time you were recognized?

How did you feel?

But what if you did not want to be recognized?

What if being recognized for being amazing …

WAS BAD?

No one likes you for being amazing.

Have you ever eaten lunch alone?

Was it fun?

Have you ever set the curve?

How did your classmates feel?

What if you could never relate to your friends …

… because you were so smart?

How would you feel?

Alone?

Isolated?

Wanting to be normal?

Ender’s Game Orson Scott Card Ender leaned his head against the wall of the corridor and cried until the bus came. I am just like Peter. Take my monitor away, and I am just like Peter. (8)

Have you ever liked someone?

Really really liked them?

And started to date?

Wasn’t it fun!?

But your parents told you, “Break up …

… because they are not right for you?”

And you broke up. It sucked. How did you feel?

Have you ever felt you are the only responsible person in your family?

Do you always have to solve everyone else's problems?

Do you ever feel controlled?

Do you ever feel forced to do things you do not want to?

Even though you understand why they are good?

Have you ever felt you have two faces … one for public another one for home?

Can you forgive someone for breaking your heart?

When is it your turn to enjoy life?

Does money matter?

Does LOVE matter?

What do you do when pressured, or persuaded, to do something?

Do you do it?

Persuasion Jane Austen If I was wrong in yielding to persuasion once, remember that it was to persuasion exerted on the side of safety, not of risk. When I yielded, I thought it was to duty; but no duty could be called in aid here. In marrying a man indifferent to me, all risk would have been incurred and all duty violated.

What would you do if your brother or sister was dying …

… and you are the only one … that could help?

What would you do?

Would you sacrifice something of your own?

Your time?

Your money?

Your food?

Even an arm or a leg?

doing all you could … And what if after

THEY DIED

… because what you had done was not enough?

How would you feel?

The Road Cormac McCarthy You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.

Have you ever started something, and wanted to quit…

… but not been allowed to?

Have you felt forced to act against your own morals and beliefs?

But recognize the end result is for the good?

Have you ever felt everyone looks to your for the answers …

… the solutions …

… the plans …

and not known what to do? or say?

Have you ever wondered who YOU really are?

What is right?

What is wrong?

What are your morals? What are your values?

If you do not know your own morals, does that mean you do not have any?

Do the ends justify the means?

Who is responsible: the puppet, or the puppeteer?

Does a name really mater?

What defines you?

Your actions?

Or your thoughts?

Who defines you?

Others?

Or you?

Have you ever felt trapped?

The Bourne Identity Robert Ludlum Nobody does the right thing.