Journal Reflection

    As this semester started and so did my journey on this English course, I found myself with a great challenge in front of me. New tasks came to my hands while getting use to the same routine once more. I must say that I’m not at all a person that constantly spends their time talking only about themselves. From once in a while it will come out of me a thing or two that might be happening in my life but most definitely I will not let out the things that are bothering me. Therefore when I learned about the activity of writing on journals weekly I instantly thought about how it could end up becoming boring just like I think that may happened when talking about myself to other people.

The weeks started passing by with me spending ten minutes of my free time, which is really nothing, just navigating through my mind with deep thoughts that were buried deeply inside. Started writing about animals, aspirations, goals and friendships, all of the normal things we have no fear in letting everyone know. But as the weeks passed by I felt the urge to write something more passionate. Something that would connect me with myself; and I started doing just that, I wrote about my feelings, how I realize that no one is there for you only but yourself. That it is necessary to go through some rough patches so that you can learn for future references because those are the ones that can’t be taught.

This whole experience made me grow as a person and helped me reestablish my mental state of mind which is so needed because at these stages of life is amazingly easy to lose your way. This might all sound a bit narcissistic but I can assure you that I am not even close to it. Just have gone through life wanting to bring every best thing possible for the ones I care about so I have developed a sense of self-care.  Throughout most of my entries I have written how I can improve because my only aspiration in life is to achieve happiness for myself and the ones I love while reaching my goals.

"A Room With a View" Reaction

I could start it off writing about how, since beginning of human time, women have been treated like something with less value but just doesn't feel authentic enough. Instead, I prefer spending time marveling at the greatness that women are and their common stories of great achievements. First of all, I'll just leave the equality argument with the thought that if it wasn't for women we wouldn't be who we are as people without mentioning our gift of living in the world. Here I hope to give my insight after going through the movie "A Room With a View" and the different topics that it briefly covers while not giving away the main one. Its covers goes from cultural aspects all the way to giving a different insight inside an unconventional love story.

Here we face the story of  Lucy while living she lives at older times in Florence and battles through without surrendering to what's acceptable by the society. Through many encounters we can get to see just how really she is and what is going on inside her head. Quickly, I found it intriguing how she differed greatly with the ladies that were staying with her at the place which gave away for me that she was going to be a round character. From the assassination in Florence to the meeting the "good man" we saw glimpses of how she still was a bit like them too. Playing the piano was her way to express her disagreement with the world which was the correct thing to do in my mind because keep her away from trouble. This is a journey for Lucy, she grew greatly in demeanor and she let go of the chains sustained by society for example when she realized she didn't want to get married to her first fiancee. She found out things about herself that not even herself knew therefore leading to finding out that her feelings for George were true and real. I  guess we can say is a great example of over coming adversity not entirely but actually following what makes you happy.

In the movie there are some social prejudices marked greatly. Makes me think of how strong people have to be sometimes to actually achieve what makes them happy and still we stand here waiting for it to fall out of the sky. Learning and understanding is what every human being should do because that is what gives us the capacity to not be ignorant and actually realize how we all have a meaning in life so we should make the most of it. 

"On Looking" My Response

If it was up to us I'm sure we would definitely chose the idea of traveling along the world. By traveling we are capable of experience new things that maybe we had at near reach but by different situations we opted to ignore them. The ones we really see become the most important in our minds when actually we are just ignoring our whole capabilities because they caught our attention. Here's the thing the human nature is completely incomparable and therefore can't be generalized. Though it is safe to say that by instinct we will pay more attention to the things that we can relate to because we might have an inner connection with them.

Personally, I found myself being able to relate with the whole exposition of the story through different experiences. As we go on our ordinary routine and life we tend to ignore the simple things that surely are gifts from gifts from nature. Ironically, I've found myself in front of situations like this, one time, while walking to get my hair cut; I found myself with the realization that I was so uninterested in the whole action therefore something simple enough didn't even get my attention. I couldn't even believe that along my way, I didn't pay attention to a thing as simple as the fuel cost. Like this, I can say that I understand the narrator's struggle of feeling discomfort while ignoring indirectly the many wonders around me. On looking, is a great example of improving one's points of view to not only focus on what gets our attention but also surrendering to the many aspects in the world. We get to see throughout the story how she sees only what it's visible to the one routine living human being. While after this, she tells us of the views of people with various profession and the influence of it inside them. 

In conclusion, we can infer that paying attention is something that can be considered as relative. Something that doesn't make us ignorant to things, instead just help us as professionals be better at understanding things that makes us who we are. Eventually as we grow up, we are faced with situations that normally would be dealt with not the same approvement. As kids we tend to focus and center all of our attention on things that bring us joy. After getting old, we take a great interest on things we didn't really see before because now at the later parts of our lives is when we decide that it's time to see what we have missed. Coming up in age I can safely say that it's true since different views of life hit us day by day.