The Best of Today: Illusion

In class we watched a movie(which name I do not remember at the moment) about Hamlet through the eyes of other people. That movie made me wonder if our world could be an illusion. It could be a play that each one of us have to watch and be part of. There probably is no way to tell if our world is real or not but all I can say is that we are definitely part of it. We all watch other people: how they behave, act, talk or what they do. We observe each others lives and our own the same way the two men in the movie observed Hamlet's life. We watch other and learn; most cases we apply the knowledge we have gained by watching others to ourselves but other cases we miss out on what we have observed and do not apply it to ourselves. That way we get stuck in a delusion and have to question everything until we find the right answer; the right way out. However, all of that could be just an illusion that we created in our minds. Everything could be just illusion. This idea gets me so worked up because I don't know what is the answer, because I just wonder if this is an illusion and it is all in our heads why don't we choose better things of ourselves all the time; why we still go through the suffer and pain? Maybe I will never be able to answers this but I would for sure like to know, the real answer.

Best of Today: Art vs. Science

While I love both art and science I really don't see what is the difference between them. They both are beautiful to look at and hard to understand. While art might have many answers and all of them might be correct, and science will mostly likely have only one answer or few specific ones; I still believe that both of them are extremely similar and maybe even related in a way. If you look at science everything is written in this sort of code: made of symbols and such. Or even better all science creations are extremely beautiful to look at and quite complicated. While art is also a creation of various things into one, and very enjoyable to look at. I really do not see why people cannot let both of them in some way work together. Basically all we take is from nature that is used in both science and art... So then what is the real difference between them? I really do not know but I am sure that if you would work with both subjects together you would get a great balance and uniformity. Maybe even invent something new or even better realize that secret to the world. The meaning of everything.

The Best of Today: people

Today, in class I looked around in the classroom. Every single person looked differently, sat differently, looked differently. Each one of them, had something so unique and yet so similar to everyone else. It made me think how much those people have changed since birth, what they have learned, what experiences they had to go through to make them the way they are. And I am honored to had a chance to actually meet them because I believe that everything in life has a meaning, purpose. I just wonder how had those people influenced my life or how knowing me had influenced their lives. If the changed were major or minor. Forming bonds with other human beings is probably the hardest task that can be thrown at you in the life, and I really hope that the relationships I have formed in the class will develop even further more. It would be really cool if 20 years from now we would all meet and we could share what happened in our lives. How everything went,and see how each one of those people have changed. And hopefully became even greater people than they are now. Life is a development, it never stops.

Best of Today: Angels and Demons

Since, we started reading "The Arts and Their Interpretation" in class, I kept thinking about fundamental things that people keep arguing about through out centuries. And after watching "Angels and Demons" the huge topic came in my mind, the "fight" between religion and science. Those two are such huge ideas got me to thinking that the idea itself is almost the same that Wilson was talking in his book. The new versus the old. Religion and science was constantly a huge issue in my family...mostly, between my mother and I. I always believed that science was the way everything is based on, and I don't usually believe things I can't see. But my mother on the other hand, based everything on religion and that everything was created by God. Each of us represented a certain group of beliefs, however in the end of the movie neither sides were right. The director left us choose our own way of thinking and believing. Now I believe that there has to be that balance of both sides, and that is the real answers. One cannot exist without another. Just like in "The Art of Their Interpretation" art cannot exist without science.(at least that is my understanding of this article at the moment) It has to be both. Life does not have one answers that is correct. Life is about taking every single little detail and putting it into the big picture.

The Best of the week: Prom

So all year long I have been so excited about going to prom... basically up until the day of it. At first, I saw it as a really special dinner/dance but then after seeing everyone at the dance: all my friends, classmates. I realized that this is the end of probably of the best years of my life and the beginning of something new and exciting. I felt kind of sad for a bit because I knew that some of the people I probably won't ever see again, we all will move on to our adult lives and just remember the best times of high school as something we wished we could do again. Every single person at that dance, has brought something new to my life. They thought me precious lessons that helped me become the person I am now, and hopefully develop even more. Prom is like a celebration to our adulthood and the end of our teenage years. We prepare for the future so much and still it feels like we are not really ready because you never know what life will throw at you. I find it extremely funny that all of this came to me while getting ready for prom and being in that room with all those great people. I guess people just don't realize how precious everything is until the end to it comes. I hope that I myself and everyone else really make the best of our lives and someday we may all meet and reconnect again.

Metacognition: Do you Mind??!!

During forth quarter in class we started doing "Do you mind??!!" questions. At the beginning I thought that it was so weird and the questions were so random and I did not really pay attention to the way I answered the questions. However, the further along we got in process the more I started to notice patterns, ideas, similarities/differences in my own thinking. I even learn tons of new things about myself that I knew but never really payed attention to. Even now, every single day outside of the class I pay more attention to my own thoughts then anything else. I feel like in some way I have learned to listen to my inner voice inside of my head I guess. I don't really know how to describe it without sounding weird :)I really wish I could carry this way of thinking even after I am done with our Humanities class, it really helps me to concentrate on my own thinking/psychology/philosophy and at the same develop myself better. I think I actually I might even keep writing blogs randomly to let my thoughts out and then look over them. However, I am kind of already doing that. Sometimes, I will post of some fact or question on my facebook account and talk about it, while the same time incorporating my own life.

Connection: 50 Questions and "Guys and Dolls"

Every day in class we do couple of the questions that would in the end at least for me lead to a discovery about me that would grow me as a person and individual in the community. Most of the questions force me to look into my deepest in sites in my mind that on regular bases I would not see or acknowledge. This kind of process makes me not only improve my thinking as a student but also lets me improve my thinking in various situations that deal with people around me and such.
In "Guys and Dolls" each character constantly had to develop as individual and as community. (Kind of the same way we do with 50 questions) "Guys and Dolls" showed how many different people face same kind of problems but look into them differently. They asked different questions and they all approached their problems from different angles in order to improve themselves.
In some way I think that those 50 questions are meant to do the same thing for us as it did for the people in the musical. There are many different people and all of them have different ways of approaching things they are trying to improve. So not necessarily all of the question would work for all of us, but I am sure that in that bunch there will be some questions that will specifically work for us as individual. Just as different approaches worked for character in "Guys and Dolls". Some looked for answers in God, others gambling, other love, others friendship and so on.