Entry 9: Tuesday, July 9, 10:34 pm
After being at a month long academic camp for the upcoming seniors in highschool for two days, I can only help but realize a few things.
1. The world is bigger than one person can ever imagine. There is so much for us to experience and live through, pain and happiness, jealousy and compassion. Every single aspect that we overlook everyday is so substantial to our growth as a whole society. If every moment was spent for the betterment of the upcoming generations then so many people would not consider the world as such a bad place to live in. Yes, there is bad. Yes, there is good. How do we exist? Because there is balance and harmony between each. When we experience feeling from some occurrence we can conclude that each feeling is a direct result from the imbalance and harmony of our consciousness at that point in time. Happiness can mean that our consciousness is in harmony with each side, “good and evil”, while when there is imbalance it means that one side is overpowering one another. However, the idea that we can actually experience any of this at all is the point of living.
2. We as individuals know nothing and everything. When we break it down into simple basic building blocks, what you perceive is the actual thought you have which is the reaction/result from someone else’s idea, and makes that thought your thought. Your thought has a certain amount of you in it and a certain amount of what other peoples’ thought about it is. Basically, our own thoughts only have so much of us in it. One single thought cannot exist with one person. It must exist with many. With this, the reason our society can accomplish so much is because our thoughts together make a never ending circle of ideas and growth. I know nothing. Thank the gods.
3. My love for english and philosophy was larger than I even imagined. Nothing brings me more content and joy than conversing with older people, and even some students, about how the world works, deciphering classic literature, and questioning everything we know. Fortunately, I am in the right place with the right people to truly allow myself to grow and blossom with realization and enlightenment of old and new knowledge.
Now, here is a current list of questions I have acquired over my few sunrises and sunsets at this camp:
Is knowledge equivalent to education? If so, can we actually make guidelines to develop it?
Is curriculum equivalent to knowledge of reality?
Do we attempt at making a list of guidelines of knowledge to try to become more knowledgeable?
We need each other as humans to think. So why do we think what we do?
Is it true humans cannot live alone or truly be independent?
Are we just visions of peoples perceptions, thoughts, or ideas?
Do ideas control the universe?
How much power do words have, if any?
Why is it a “train of thought?”
What does art do for us as a human race?
Is art the sanctuary of the human condition?
Is the audience just as much of an “artist” as the artist because of feeling that is resulted from the physical piece?
Is putting physical value on art immoral?
Does there have to be beauty in art?
Why is there a search for truth?
What is a dream and why do they occur?
Why are teachers influential?
What do different hand writings tell us about each other, the way we interpret ideas and literature, and society?
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