Recently, I have been writing more and more fiction. While this has been something that I am okay with, there are more intellectual things that are in my mind. In one of my film classes, we talked about “Silence of the Lambs”. That was the first time I had heard of Hannable Lector. After finding out that there were many spin-off films and tv shows, I stumbled upon one of them. (I don’t know the title, I have never watched any of them.) The premise was that of a very empathetic person being asked to work with a cannibal to track down criminals. The empathetic person starts to care more…
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There is Power in Vulnerability
Brene Brown once said, “We can measure how brave you are by how vulnerable you’re willing to be”. While I know she is right, I can’t help being afraid of the word ‘vulnerable’. In my head, I ask myself what I am willing to be vulnerable to? What could I do to be more vulnerable? After much thought and a lot of fear, I realized what I am afraid of. I am afraid of working hard and failing. The fear of failure is very common in our world. Thirty-one percent of people have this fear, which puts it above the fear of spiders. The reason why I have this fear…
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Dreams are Made of These
Life seems dreary right now. It is almost like the apocalypse has actually happened. Most people are starting to get cabin fever and I have been sitting on a couch for almost two weeks. But I know that you don’t want to hear about the quarantine and how that is affecting people. We’ve seen it everywhere online. Instead, I want to talk a little about a fun fact. Did you know that during the Black Death, Issac Newton had to go home because his college shut down? During that time, he discovered the Law of Gravity and he founded calculus. Both of those things are something that we use to…
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The Fear of the Unknown
*Into the Uknown plays in the background* I think that we have had enough catchy Frozen songs to last a lifetime but what she says about going into the unknown is true. There are times when we have to face the unknown when we have to face our futures. Today, I met with my school advisor and she gave me the day I am going to graduate from college with my bachelor’s in communication. When anyone asks me what I feel about this, I always tell them, “a bit excited and a bit terrified.” Truth is that I have no clue about the type of future that I want. I…
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How a Car Crash Gave Me Peace
Last year, I was in a car crash. The car crash wasn’t my fault, instead, I was hit from behind after the car in front of me stopped short. The crash was sudden but I quickly moved to the side and got out of my car. It wasn’t until after I went to school and switched around cars with my mom that I realized that something was wrong with my head. I could speak right and I was really tired. I knew I needed to go to the hospital. They told me I had a concussion. I never had had a concussion before but it was during those next two…
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How to Use Confidence to Stand Out
Brittany is my older sister. She is two years older than me and is the most confident person I know. She is also the bravest. About a month ago, she and her husband moved from Utah to Tennessee. She moved there in order to complete her education in occupational therapy. Moving wasn’t an easy thing for her. She had no idea what anything was going to be like. “You couldn’t see the neighborhood,” Brittany said. “We were living in a different culture and I didn’t know what people were going to be like.” But even though she was afraid, she moved anyway. “I had fears and anxieties but I knew…
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How I Overcame My Fear of Failure
Failure is hard to confront. In fact, there are more people who are afraid of failure than there are afraid of spiders. This just shows how well we want to do in everything we try to accomplish. When we fail, it can seem like the end of the world and it can seriously hurt our confidence. This is why we need to understand that the biggest bully in our minds is actually not as big as we think. I know a lot about fearing failure. Every time I have an opportunity to do something I fear that I will eventually fail and I won’t want to start it. Some examples…
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How to Bring Back Lost Motivation
I am afraid of failure. This is not something I am proud of and it stops me from starting projects that I want to do. I will procrastinate even the simple things so I won’t have to look failure in the face. Failure is something that can take our motivation and throw it into the trash if we are not careful. So, the question is how can we keep our motivation up after we have suffered a setback? The answer is in a book that I am currently reading. It’s called “The Fighter’s Mind” by Sam Sheridan. In one of his chapters, he interviews Freddie Roach who is a former…
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How to Know When You Have True Learning
About a month ago, I was brainstorming with my dad about what I should write about during this month. One of the things that I thought would be interesting is knowing when you have truly learned. I thought this was interesting because before thinking about this, I would have told you that there wasn’t a limit to what you could learn. Learning seems to be everlasting. There is too much to one subject to just be learned. When researching the topic, I found that learning is ongoing but you can know when you have truly learned by teaching and by acting on your knowledge. Teaching has been something that I…
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Three Things I Learned From Determination
I love writing stories. It is something that I have always loved to do. When I first started this blog, all I wanted to do was write peoples’ stories. It was something that inspired me to the point where I was determined to keep on going, even when I wasn’t feeling like writing. This month we have been talking about determination and I have been able to write stories of people you probably haven’t even heard of before. From the man who moved a mountain to the woman who spent 10 days in a mental asylum it seems as if people in history are the only ones who are determined.…
