Summer

It is so hot out! I cannot stand to be outdoors when I have the sweat dripping off my body and making me pant like a dog. As I was outside today I realized that the idea behind the summer is actually brutal. We wait all year for this time of fun in the sun to arrive, but for what? To sweat for hours and crave a good drink. Then we go inside too hot to take a shower because the water is warm and so the list goes on and on.

Honestly I feel very bad for the animals in our world. They are outside continuously in the extreme conditions with no escape to the cool air inside. On top of the heat they are covered in fur in which they cannot cool down but lock in the warmth. They run around all day trying to find some cooling shelter in which they normally cannot succeed in until it is night. The beaming sun looking all amazing as we believe it does is actually  breaking us down so we cannot function.

The sun can be compared to the angel and devil on your shoulder. On one hand it is fantastic to be outside, it leads to no school, and it makes everyone genuinely happier. Along with that comes the bad side, sweating, overheated, house work, and babysitting. So why do we not long for winter or fall? We will never know but one thing I can say is summer bring it on!

Afterlife?

Life, Evolution, and our known existence are questions I am always pondering in my mind. When we think of the difference between life and death we have no clue what is actuality of what is in a figment of our imagination. When the idea of evolution is actually questioned we are lacking many answers about our world.

Many believe that once we die we are lead into another life in which we will live. Our minds are erased and we have no idea of what we have previously been through. Now are reborn into a world in which we take on a new role as someone else. So the body disappears and the memories lead to heaven and the spirit transfers over. Do you ever see a baby that is born and they have many same characteristics as a passed family member? Or they look the exact same as someone who has passed. This raises the question of are they continuing around the cycle and it really is them.

When someone dies they supposedly see the light and move towards it. AS moving toward the light we could take this experience like the birth of a child. Maybe you die and are instantly born again as another. We see the light and as a baby is born they come out of a dark place to see the light. So maybe, just maybe we still do have them around us. Along with seeing the light, memories flash before your eyes and see your past. Maybe as memories flash this is us remembering one last time and then our minds are cleared. No more memories until we recreate a new life

Whenever you actually sit down and analyze the ideas of life you become completely baffled. Are we all in a cycle? Do we consistently morph into something else that we will now become? It is an answer we will never be able to fathom the answer. We cannot experience the ideas of life vs. death until it is too late to comprehend. If only there was a way to learn and experience this and then relay the information. Dying is a horrid sensation to begin to think of and I do not want to be anywhere nears it. I can be perfectly fine with the outstanding amount of questions that still consume my mind.  Maybe we are all dreamers and are actually not living at all, we will never know.

Crime is pride

               

Think: all men make mistakes

But a good man yeilds when he

Knows his course is wrong,

And repairs the evil: The only

Crime is pride.

As I read through the expert shown above I get this overwhelming sense of depth behind the author’s purpose. On the surface it seems a commonly confusing statement that is normally made within poetry. I begin to then re-read the excerpt and something catches my eye. The purpose is being shown as the idea of personality. All humans make mistakes and you could say we “repair the evil” so we can continue on from the issue. The final line is where it hits me; they say that “the only crime is pride.”

                Pride; the state or feeling of being proud. When we all think of the word we instantly think of different experiences involving our sense of pride. In elementary school we are told to have pride in our country. We need to support our country and show how proud we are to be Americans. Pride is a characteristic many strive to achieve within a lifetime. As reading the poem we then are told that when we are involved in evil our only crime is pride. Granted we all do make mistakes but the logic or theory behind them but pride is nowhere near the ideals of evil.

                Throughout life I have made some mistakes, being the teenager I am. Throughout this time I have as Antigone has stated “yields” when I knew my course was wrong. Once a person has realized their mistakes they do try and “repair the evil”, depending on how severer the mistake may be. When committing mistakes never once did they relate back to idea of pride. The thought of the word itself makes me think in a positive manner.  I have been raised to think of myself and my family with pride. Along with my family I need to take pride in my country. If pride committed all evils in the world we would never be encouraged to be full of pride.

                On the opposite spectrum some have changed the meaning behind having pride. There is a fine line between having pride and being cocky with oneself. Some feel they partake in certain activities due to the feeling of so called pride in themselves to participate in them. Due to the lack of intelligence these people contain the thought of pride is swayed. For example, recently when the Boston Marathon Bombings occurred many wondered what their motivation was to harm so many innocent people. One man once caught alive was said to have said that he attacked the United States because he had so much pride in his home country to come attack us. It is completely logical to have pride in your country but to then go and attack another nation is taking it to another level.

                So in the end maybe pride can lead to overall conflict and crime. Maybe if we did not have so much pride in what we believe in we would avoid catastrophes. The definition of pride will be continuously changing until the world stops revolving around the sun. We cannot control the outcome but we can fix our evils and reduce our crime. The current definition still rains true to me. The idea of having pride in something you believe in is not evil.