One of the people I appreciate in 6th period English is Barni, a freshman/frackie. We've been in the same division for two years already, and her antics are always amusing. She's smart, relatively friendly, and we've had enough classes together since 7th grade to be on pretty good terms with each other. This year, we have Instructional Support together, and she helps out with my questions about work and vice versa. During 6th, we sit next to each other everyday and group work assignments get done pretty easily and well between us (and, sometimes, a third person).
(She also tells me what we do in Mr. Bauer's Chem that day.)
Thanks, Barni :D
Wednesday, November 27, 2013
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Celebrating Myself
Transcendentalists believe that society with its horrid, wicked, corrupt, Mother Gothel ways peer-pressure a person’s individualism into a smaller and smaller block until it ultimately disappears altogether. Though traits such as religion and politics are often the big culprits that immediately spring to mind, there are also little things (Uggs) that set a certain standard for normalcy (the Common App) and leave the individual no real choice except “this or die”.
My initial reaction at the phrase “celebrating [my]self” was “birthday parties!” because what better way is there to express how awesome and loved and individual you are based on the annual date of your birth? But then in the next moment, I realized, Well, there's only a couple of millions of other people with the same exact birthday, so maybe not.
A little more thinking (maybe about seven seconds' worth) and I realized that, well, there's a better and much more profound way to approach this. There are many different ways to celebrate many different things, but for an individual to celebrate himself, would it mean simply differentiating himself from others? If so, then what differentiates two people more than the way they live life and the decisions they make? The little (and big) yes-or-no, this-or-that decisions we make everyday reflect our ideals, our history, our personal versions of reason, and they help paint a larger picture of who we are as individuals.
Ultimately, what's a better way to celebrate yourself than by showing the world who you are?
My initial reaction at the phrase “celebrating [my]self” was “birthday parties!” because what better way is there to express how awesome and loved and individual you are based on the annual date of your birth? But then in the next moment, I realized, Well, there's only a couple of millions of other people with the same exact birthday, so maybe not.
A little more thinking (maybe about seven seconds' worth) and I realized that, well, there's a better and much more profound way to approach this. There are many different ways to celebrate many different things, but for an individual to celebrate himself, would it mean simply differentiating himself from others? If so, then what differentiates two people more than the way they live life and the decisions they make? The little (and big) yes-or-no, this-or-that decisions we make everyday reflect our ideals, our history, our personal versions of reason, and they help paint a larger picture of who we are as individuals.
Ultimately, what's a better way to celebrate yourself than by showing the world who you are?
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