Brian Lee SIS Blog
Thursday, December 12, 2013
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ART
Today’s blog is what I think about art.
Some people say that art is not important but I completely
disagree. I think that art is a
something that you can express your emotions in. That is not common in the world which makes
it more special. Our school had an art
class and I completely enjoyed it. I
took out my stress in that class. That
was the only class in school that I actually enjoyed.
Colleges
do not look at your art class grade if your school had one. This is a right thing to do but it doesn’t mean
that art is something that should be taken for granted.
What do
you think of when you hear the word “Art”?
Most people would think of paintings like Mona Lisa or a picture. But art exists in many forms and shapes. For example, musicians view their music as
art. Collectors call their collection
art. As you can see, if one can see beauty in something, it is art to
them. There is a good example of this
and that is my dad. My dad liked to
collect car models when he was young. He
made me try when I was young but it wasn’t really my type. To him, those cars that he collected were art
in his eyes. When grandma got rid of
them because she thought it was trash, my dad got really mad at her for
touching his stuff, especially his most value items. After that day, grandma did not touch my dad’s
stuff without his permission. As seen in
my dad’s story, art is something that is special and meaningful to someone.
Something
that I want to point out is that art doesn’t have to be something expensive and
nice. It could be trash to someone who doesn’t
know the value of it. For example, if
someone’s mom gave it to him as a present but now it is old and dusty, it is
still art to him. If other people see it
and not know the story behind that item, it will look like old crap and trash
to them. But for the person who received
that present from his mom, it is a very special thing to them. These kinds of situations are shown often in
movies. I have seen one movie where one
guy protects an old rusty necklace because that is something that his mom gave
it to him on the day she passed away. That
was all he had left of her. This is art.
Everyone
has their “art”. Even you. Maybe you won’t know it but you might see
something very beautiful when everyone sees it as trash. That is art to you.
HOW TO CONNECT
Today’s topic is to talk about how I connect to others.
Today’s technology allows us to communicate without actually
meeting face to face. I go online on
Facebook at least once a day to check if anyone contacted me. There are also cellphones and other tech that
allows us to contact the minute we want to.
Even though we have these nice and cool technology, some people try to
meet face to face, especially if it is an important meeting. I connect to
others in a special kind of way. I connect to others through mostly technology,
like kakao talk or facebook, or twitter, or tumblr.
Another
way of connecting to others is by connecting with heart. This only happens between really close people
like couples or brothers or parents and so on.
I see this as the real connection where no words are needed between the
connections. It is like a natural
connection that forms when two or more people get really close.
A
connection is not made from the start, it starts with words. I like to connect to people too and I do it
by just spending time and talking. We
share our similarities and differences and just talk about what we think about
it. This looks not important but it is
an important skill that needs to be learned in life. Making connections with people around is a
skill that will get you friends or people that you will need when you are
having a hard time. For example, if one
does not know this skill, he or she won’t get any friends. Then when he or she goes into a hard time for
something, which will happen at least once in a lifetime, he or she won’t have
anybody to stay by their side.
Our
race or age doesn’t matter when it comes to making connections. I could bond with my grandpa and that is a
connection. I have friends who are all
different races with me and that doesn’t come in the way of I making a
connection with them. Now they are
people who I need in my life.
When a
successful connection has occurred, it is not really common for really close
people to separate.
LIFE MEANING
What’s the
meaning of life?
The meaning of life to me is fun and
happiness. There is studying and working
and hard times in life but that is all done to become happy in the future. Think about it, if we knew we weren’t going
to have a happy life even after graduating from the top college, why would we
study? Why would we work if that doesn’t
bring happy times in the end? All
efforts that humans put into their lives are all because they dream of
happiness. Of course, this “happiness”
differs with every person because everyone has different interests and
hobbies.
I am in school right now writing
this blog because I want to get a good grade on my report card for journalism
class, which will help me get into a good college which will then lead me to a
happy life in the end. If I believed
that all this effort I am putting in won’t bring me any happiness, I wouldn’t
have even come to school today and just sleep until I get hungry.
The reason why people commit suicide
is because they have lost the meaning of life, happiness. Since there is no meaning of life for them,
it would be same as being dead but just your body being functional. But I think committing suicide is the dumbest
thing ever. If it is a situation where
you are in a hospital at an old age having a hard time and just want to end it,
that I understand. Everyone including
you know you are going to die due to an illness, and it hurts to just stay
laying down, and all the people in your family feel sorry and don’t know what
to do, it is better to just end it faster.
If it is someone that is still at a young age and thinking of committing
suicide just because he feels sad, that’s stupid. My dad once said to me that if you have the
courage to commit suicide, you have the courage to do anything in the
world. With that brave spirit, it would
be better if that person just started a new life. He told me this when I was really young but I
still remember it because I completely agreed.
JUSTICE
Justice
is the concept of what is right. What do
I believe in justice? Honestly, I am not
really sure. I am not really sure
because everyone has different justices in their lives. One might think something is not justice and
another might think it is justice. I
think it just depends on what one thinks is right, that is justice.
There
are four kinds of justices in my opinion.
The first one is authority. An
example is my parents. If my parents say
that studying is the right thing to do, studying is justice. What the law tells me to do is justice. What high people that have control over me
tell me to do is justice. This is the
kind of justice that is most invalid in my opinion. Just because people above me tells me what is
justice doesn’t mean that it is completely justice. For example, if a very religious person tells
me to sacrifice a person to the gods saying that that is justice, I won’t do
it.
The
second type of justice is democracy.
This is following the majority.
For example, if everyone buys a certain thing, it makes me want to buy
it too. It is justice to buy that
certain thing because everyone is doing it.
This is true sometimes but also sort of invalid in my opinion when I
think of a situation I had in my life.
When I was in Korea, a lot of people were buying a popular food that is
sold in the store. I tried it out too,
of course, following what people do and also because I was curious why how good
it tasted that it drew everyone’s attention.
I bought it and tried it out and it tasted like crap. Everyone else says it is good but to me, it
was a waste of money to buy something that tasted so bad. In this situation, is it justice for me to
buy that food and eat it like everyone else is doing? I don’t think so. Why would it be right for me to buy something
I don’t want? Anyways, democracy is a
type of justice but to me, it is kind of invalid.
The
third type of justice is tradition. This
says that since our great grandparents and great great grandparents have done
something, justice says that we have to carry on the tradition and do it
too. I have done this before. My family has a tradition of visiting the
ones in our family that have passed away at least once a month. Most people visit their family graves but not
as often as once a month. This is why my
family tradition was special. This also
applied to me when I was in Korea for summer vacation. We were really busy due to scheduling
everything in advance without thinking about our tradition in visiting the
graves. We canceled everything to visit
the grave because my family and I felt that it was justice to not break the
tradition and continue carrying it on.
The
last type of justice is rationality, which in my opinion is the most
valid. It means what I think is right is
justice. If I think it is right to help
someone is danger is a right thing to do, it is justice. Justice isn’t a definite thing and it varies
from people to people which makes this type of justice very valid. What I think is right in my mind is the true justice.
TRUTH
Today’s
blog is to talk about what I believe about truth and what I think about it.
I believe
that truth is one of the most important virtues in this world that keeps it
going. Truth is always hidden in this
world. There are always times where
truth is tried to be kept hidden. I have
seen a lot of movies where this is shown.
One movie that I saw was about someone accidently running someone over
with their car. They were scared to tell
the police that they did it so they hid the body themselves and planned to act
like nothing happened. They lasted about
a week or two and got caught for murder and more importantly hiding the
murder. Their time in jail was made much
longer due to the fact that they hid the murder. If they had just told the truth about what mistake
they have caused, they wouldn’t have been in jail as long as they did. What I realized about truth was that truth
will eventually be revealed. No matter
how hard someone tries to hide it, it is impossible to get rid of the
truth. Even though it might take a long
time until the truth is revealed, it will get revealed.
Truth
is something that is needed to keep this society running. It sometimes seems like truth is not really
what is important but it will eventually become the main topic or issue. My parents always tell me that lying is the
guiltiest sin. My dad even told me that
when I don’t listen to what he tells me to do, I will get scolded but if I get
caught lying, he will just kick me out of the house. This shows how importantly he thinks of
truth. He even put it higher in value
than following what he tells me to do.
Truth
is something that is needed to keep the world a fair place. If truth is broken by some people, and they
take advantage of that, they might be able to achieve something the easy way
out while everyone else is working hard for it.
For example, if somebody in the government is bribed by a rich person
for a spot in the government and he gives it to him, how would the people who
worked half of their life for a spot in the government? I have a friend that wants to be a government
official and he is working really hard to achieve his dream. I can’t even imagine what he would think of a
person who bribed people to easily get a spot on the government. As you can see, if truth wasn’t broken and
kept strong, the person that was bribing would have not gotten a position in
the government, which is correct.
Truth
is what keeps relationships together.
This “relationship” doesn’t only refer to a husband and wife
relationship but also friendship relationships.
When there is a break of truth between any relationships, it shakes and
becomes bound to break. Even the
toughest relationships can be broken when there is no truth between them. Imagine a couple that has been married for 30
years but lie to each other every day.
That relationship that went on for 30 long years can be broken in a
single day.
Truth
is something that has to exist in this world for it to be peaceful.
MOVING OR STAYING
Today’s topic is to talk about the question, “It is better to live in one city or town
than to move from one place to another. Agree or disagree?”
I personally think
that both choices have their own advantages and disadvantages but if I had to
choose one, which I do, I would choose moving from one place to another. I chose this because one will get bored and
sick of a place if they stayed there for too long. That’s human nature. Anyone will get bored if they are encountered
with the same thing for a long time.
This comes from my experience. I
live on a small island called Saipan. It
is located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and it is so small that we can’t
even see it in most maps. It is so small
that the people here know most of each other.
I have been on this island since elementary school and now I am a high
school student which makes it about 8 years on this island. I am sick of it now. I know EVERYTHING that goes on and there is
nothing interesting in my eyes. This
proves that it is better to move from one place to another so that one will not
get bored and experience new things.
The reason some
people think it is better to in one city or town is because of experience. If one does something for a long time, one
will gain experience in that. For
example, if I lived in a certain place for a long time, which I did, I will
have a lot of people that are close to me in that place or know a way to succeed
in that place. Anyways, one who lived in
a place longer than a newbie will be much better at a lot of things. That is why some people assume that it is
better to stay in one place rather than moving around; and this point isn’t
completely wrong. But to me, the writer
of this blog, it seems better to move around to many different places and
experience new things all around the world.
My grandparents are a good example to this point. They have lived in the same village for more
than 20 years. They know everyone and
everything in that village as if it is their own home. They don’t even think about moving because
they are now too bonded with the people of that village, they are family. This is a good example of gaining experience
in something when done a long time.
All the decisions
that the readers of this blog will differ, and that is completely normal
because it is one’s will that decides the answer to this question. There is no definite answer; it is a question
with many correct answers.
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