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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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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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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The Faith of a Jehovah’s Witness
After writing about faith from a Muslim perspective, I was thinking about other perspectives that other religions have too. I started searching for my next interview and somehow ended up searching for someone from the Jehovah’s Witnesses. Thankfully, after some failed attempts at interviews, I was introduced to Emily. Emily is a friend of my roommate who was so kind as to agree to do an interview with me. Because she is in Iowa, we set up a time to do an over-the-phone interview. When I first started talking to her, I could tell that she was passionate about what she believed in. She explained to me that Jehovah’s Witnesses…
