Do you ever feel like you are nothing, like you were made for so much more? Albert Einstein once said, “I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.” Being an athlete, I see this every practice, every game, every day I step onto the court. When mistakes occur, I feel like there is
Month: November 2019
They told me to run
The noise is unbearable. The boisterous shouts from below make my head whirl in anger and terror. They said to run, but, how could I? The blood-curdling screams from downstairs keep me frozen with distress. I can’t move. But they told me to run. No, I can’t. Come on! I tell myself, one-foot in front
Colours: Banal or Bright?
“I don’t love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful.” ~ Natalie Portman We’ve all been through it before – wreaking havoc throughout Art lesson, only to be greeted by incandescent stares and a rap on the knuckles for dirtying our hands. However, what if the dirty hands weren’t from an Art
Surreal
For a moment, I was blinded by the ray of light, which was in stark contrast from the pitch-black I had grown accustomed to for more than a decade. The surface I was lying on… it was slightly harder than the one I slept on every night. Dad often described night as total darkness. This
Sculpting For A Finer Tomorrow
“Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.”- Roger Lewin Often, phrases like ‘God’s greatest creations’ and ‘child is the father of man’ are connected to children. They are the most innocent and delicate-minded people on Earth. Their brain is just like molding clay; they increasingly are shaped into the
Silent Screams
Social media is great, with its various uses ranging from sending and receiving informations to interacting with various individuals both known and unknown. Besides those, it has enabled people to take on new or fake identities. But it has another use, one you might have considered less important. Perhaps you may have read or heard
The Scars To Prove It
She has the scars to prove it. Her deepest regrets all painted on her fingers; staring up at her through all the pain. “I never meant for it to happen, it was an accident. Somehow, it did, my aggravation just came over me and I couldn’t hold it in any longer. I knew it would
I Have No Special Talents?
I have always considered myself quite good at learning new stuff. Add in my never-ending curiosity and passion towards everything, you get someone who is quite good at a lot of things. I’m pretty good at the piano, my mathematics and science grades are quite good, and I can even play sports. But I have
Heart of the Story – Conflict
Story telling is an art which should fascinate listeners or readers. If someone speaks or writes that two persons, one male, John, and one female, Jennie, met, got married and had children, how many people would like to listen to or read this story is the big question. A boy is born, brought up, becomes
Conflicts Are Stories
Growing up, I always wondered why people would talk about negative news more than the positive. This had been one of the questions that was always a thorn to my intelligence and one that I never got an answer to until it slapped me in the face in 12th grade. The truth is, there are
People Change, It’s Called Life
“I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.” – Michel Foucault. When you wake up in the morning, do you just sit around and wait for the sunset, or do you
The Unseen Truth
When it comes to personal growth, it’s true that we don’t spend enough time to self-reflect because we don’t think there is a problem. As a culture we work to preserve longstanding traditions, but don’t seem to acknowledge those who enforce specific biblical and philosophical traits for their own benefit. Dictatorships, war lords, terrorists, politicians,
Learning To Become Who We Are Is Not The Main Interest In Life
Seeing life from the perspective of what we are, rather than what we can learn to do, limits our abilities. Equipping ourselves with new developments and skills is how we make a meaningful life. We don’t really have to limit ourselves to what we are; the task and interest in life is to become not
Moral Responsibility and Becoming Someone New
“I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.” Foucault’s words remind me: if you want to understand yourself, you should focus not on who you are but on who you have
A Vicious Cycle
I want to think that babies cry the way they do at birth because it is their first time making contact with the negative energy present in the world, as if transmitted in thick waves. It is an energy fuelled and powered by the intense animosity people direct at each other. They cry because they
Got Enough Craze?
Have you ever met the special ones? People that just seem to ‘have it’ ahead of us all. People that we consider to be naturally talented, gifted, or ‘good’? These are people who can effortlessly–or so it seems – spit out the answer to a third-power polynomial within seconds; people who would ace every test
The Asymptote
Can you examine your life through retrospect or introspect, and tell yourself: ‘’I am doing my best’’? I bet you can’t; because if you can, you’re only kidding yourself. Your best is a moving, evolving, changing scale. Your best is not a constant point where you can reach and declare yourself ‘winner’. The only thing
The Words
Hate attracts hate. For me it has been proved to be true. Let me tell you a story of what really happened in my life that stands as a proof of it. My name is La min and my mother is named Tha zin. We were poor and my mother had been the breadwinner of
“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” – Henry Ford.
On the dusk of the nineteen century and the bright dawn of the twentieth century, the industrial revolution in the United States Of America changed the country drastically, from a rural republic to an urban state. Everywhere in the American continent, big steel industries, large and small scale factories, were developed and due to the
Our Fishing Nets Are Torn
You are probably in love with a man, who you want to spend the rest of your life with. Then one day, you decide to take him home to see your parents. And your mum says in a scornful voice, “You can’t marry him; he’s not educated,” simply because he does not have a university