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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The History of Courage
Courage has been defined in many ways since ancient Greece. The history of courage is something that can help us to understand courage a bit more and how we can apply it to our own lives. It’s no lie that courage has been discussed many times from ancient Greece to today. Even though it has been studied for centuries, we still can’t seem to get it out of our heads. What is courage? How can we become courageous? These questions have fueled the conversation on courage since the beginning. All of them, trying to figure out exactly what courage is and how we can use it for ourselves. Starting in…
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Learning from an Emotionless Generation
Emotions can be hard to express no matter who you are. Before I wrote this, I believed that a couple of generations before me were taught not to express emotions and to keep it all to yourself. To be emotionless. Of course, being a person who is going to therapy and regularly expresses their emotions every week, I thought this is the most stupid thing I had heard. In order to cope with life, you need to be able to express your emotions and how you’re feeling. Then I started researching my claim. I thought it would be easy to find articles expressing my opinion. The first article is called…
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I Shadowed a Stranger for a Day and This is What I Learned
Everyone, for the record, I didn’t follow around a stranger for a day. I followed the person who lives above me and I had permission. So, let’s move on. I did learn so much from “walking in someone else’s shoes” for a day. Right now, I am sitting on my couch, exhausted. What I learned from today is that One, people think lowly of themselves. Two, you never really get to know someone, and three, we are very different but we are also very alike. Because I learned these things throughout the course of a day, let me take you through what I did. People Think Lowly of Themselves I…
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How to Forgive Yourself in Six Easy Steps
New Year’s Resolutions can be hard to keep. People have the tendency to stop working on themselves as short as a month into the year. When it comes to breaking those resolutions, you need to forgive yourself and retry those goals for the year. Here are some easy steps to forgive yourself when you have broken those resolutions and what you can do to get back on the wagon. Acknowledge your mistakes Most professionals will tell you that admitting your mistakes and taking responsibility is the first step to any type of forgiveness. One way you may do this is by saying it out loud. By admitting them out loud,…
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Three Ways Listening is a Form of Compassion
We are compassionate with others usually when we are communicating with others. Communication requires that at least one person listens. For some reason, we tend to think about what we are going to say before the person we are talking with finishes their sentence. In a world where conversations can help a leader, listening is the most important skill we can have. How can we develop listening skills? First, we need to make listening more than just being silent, we need to to make the conversation cooperative, and we need to understand. Don’t Be Silent Listening isn’t just being silent. Your mind can be in different places when you are…
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Talent Doesn’t Mean Everything
When I was little, I tried different hobbies to see if I liked them or not. I tried ballet, tap, soccer, and soon I realized that I didn’t like any of them or rather I wasn’t good at any of them. I got frustrated with myself and I quit. The reason why was because I didn’t think that I was naturally good at it, I didn’t have any naturally talent. Natural talent isn’t all that it seems though. Recently, I have been reading Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth. In the book, she says, “Without effort, your talent is nothing more than unmet potential. Without effort,…
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Help Thou Mine Unbelief!
My name is Alecia Rose and I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. I have never quite shared this with you all before because I wanted my blog to be available for anyone whether or not they are apart of my church. When I decided on faith as the subject of this month, I thought that it was a great opportunity to talk about what my religion believes in and what I personally think faith is. The problem was when I started learning about faith and I started interviewing other people from different religions what they think faith was. I wanted a nice little…
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A Muslim’s Perspective on Faith
Usually what I do in my blog is I talk a bit about different topics that I find interesting that relate to people and in the third week I do an interview with another person about what they think about the topic. This month is different. Because it is my birthday month, I decided about six months ago that I wanted to chose a topic that I was really fascinated about and hopefully people would enjoy it as well. I then choose faith. But after I choose the topic of faith, my mind kept spinning on how I would write that month and what I could do to make it…
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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…
