You know what's weird? How you get hurt and after a while you don't feel the pain anymore. Does it go away or does your body simply get use to it? And then, when someone put's on one of those strong Abercrombie and Fitch perfumes that one can smell from miles away but after some time the smell vanishes. Did air make it flow away or did your nose get use to it being there? And that's the thing, we're always thinking about the ordinary and never about the extraordinary. It's time to start thinking out of the box, after all it's all about perspective.
Perspective by definition is a particular attitude toward or way of regarding something; a point of view. Has it ever crossed your mind that you are just this little soul carrying around a corpse? All we are is this ghost driving a meat coated skeleton made from stardust. We live looking at the science of it all, not realizing all the things we are capable of. People look at life in different ways. Some people think that in our life we have this big checklist of things we have to complete to be remembered and that the goal is not to live forever but to create something that will, other's take life one step at a time not worrying about what will happen next. Some people look at mistakes as failures that pull us down, other's use them to learn from and become wiser.
How free are we? How free are we all to look at things from a different perspective. Our unit this semester comes down to the main idea of freedom. Some people decided to explore the political aspect, others on human rights, and others on expression. I on the other hand decided to take a different approach on the situation.
Remember that feeling? The one you have after fighting with your sibling or disobeying your parents and being sent into your room? When they take away your phone, computer, tv, and any other thing that could possibly entertain you. And then you are just laying on your bed looking at the ceiling and thinking “why on earth would your parents ever decide to do this to you?" And then you’d feel locked up. When I was 5, I’d start to picture that my room was a jail cell that I had somehow gotten locked up in because I had done something terrible, something like talking back to my parents. After a while my parents would come and let me free from the cage I felt trapped in but then you’d remember that feeling of being locked up. But it’s different to be locked up in your room, than feeling that your mind is locked up with a huge lock that only you can break with the urge to get to freedom.
Freedom by definition is the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint. When one is free, one is able to express themselves and be how they want. Lucky for us, we are given all the opportunities, resources, and support that we need in order to reach our dreams. But not everyone is like us. Remember Malala Yousafzai? That 17 year old girl who fought for education and won the nobel prize? I want to share I quote that I heard her say in an interview: “I said to myself, Malala, you must be brave. You must not be afraid of anyone. You are only trying to get an education. You are not committing a crime.” Malala got shot because she was fighting for women’s education, she gave a voice for those who feared to speak up and that is the approach that we have for our project this year.
So I have a question for you. Close your eyes and imagine how it feels to be locked up. But don’t just picture yourself in World War II or in jail. Think of how it would feel if you weren’t able to say what you wanted, act how you wanted, do what you wanted, study what you wanted, or be how you wanted. And then, how free do you really think you are?
Perspective by definition is a particular attitude toward or way of regarding something; a point of view. Has it ever crossed your mind that you are just this little soul carrying around a corpse? All we are is this ghost driving a meat coated skeleton made from stardust. We live looking at the science of it all, not realizing all the things we are capable of. People look at life in different ways. Some people think that in our life we have this big checklist of things we have to complete to be remembered and that the goal is not to live forever but to create something that will, other's take life one step at a time not worrying about what will happen next. Some people look at mistakes as failures that pull us down, other's use them to learn from and become wiser.
How free are we? How free are we all to look at things from a different perspective. Our unit this semester comes down to the main idea of freedom. Some people decided to explore the political aspect, others on human rights, and others on expression. I on the other hand decided to take a different approach on the situation.
Remember that feeling? The one you have after fighting with your sibling or disobeying your parents and being sent into your room? When they take away your phone, computer, tv, and any other thing that could possibly entertain you. And then you are just laying on your bed looking at the ceiling and thinking “why on earth would your parents ever decide to do this to you?" And then you’d feel locked up. When I was 5, I’d start to picture that my room was a jail cell that I had somehow gotten locked up in because I had done something terrible, something like talking back to my parents. After a while my parents would come and let me free from the cage I felt trapped in but then you’d remember that feeling of being locked up. But it’s different to be locked up in your room, than feeling that your mind is locked up with a huge lock that only you can break with the urge to get to freedom.
Freedom by definition is the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint. When one is free, one is able to express themselves and be how they want. Lucky for us, we are given all the opportunities, resources, and support that we need in order to reach our dreams. But not everyone is like us. Remember Malala Yousafzai? That 17 year old girl who fought for education and won the nobel prize? I want to share I quote that I heard her say in an interview: “I said to myself, Malala, you must be brave. You must not be afraid of anyone. You are only trying to get an education. You are not committing a crime.” Malala got shot because she was fighting for women’s education, she gave a voice for those who feared to speak up and that is the approach that we have for our project this year.
So I have a question for you. Close your eyes and imagine how it feels to be locked up. But don’t just picture yourself in World War II or in jail. Think of how it would feel if you weren’t able to say what you wanted, act how you wanted, do what you wanted, study what you wanted, or be how you wanted. And then, how free do you really think you are?