Sports and Culture

  It is not uncommon to feel uncomfortable in a new environment. It is natural instinct to be pressured by something unknown. However, people are starting to misunderstand this fact. They are forced to think that they are different from others and their emotions holding them back. Shortcuts to learn and feel comfortable about oneself arise from these situations and encourage others to follow suit. But shortcuts can’t teach what time can tell. Inexperience is emphasized not by how much people know but by how much they think they know( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FGnb2lgPBA ).  It originates from the misinterpretation that people don’t learn everything through time and patience. It becomes attractive to feel experienced in a field within 2 weeks rather than spending a year working and researching the field. While the 2 weeks seem efficient, the package that comes with it is too great for that span of time. The need to feel as though one is all knowing and intelligent makes ...

 In my CRBC novel, “The Vanishing Half” by Brit Bennett, the story starts showing the various choices that people make that determine how their life plays out. It becomes pretty obvious from the start and throughout the first few chapters that many of the results of the story are being made by the actions of certain characters. The whole plot of the story begins when Desiree and Stella leave their home town of Mallard and try to start a new life in a different city. And this has reminded me a lot of what choices I have made and the outcomes of those.  Just a couple days ago, I went to the state tournament for tennis and was pretty successful coming in second place in the 1 doubles flight. While that may seem like something to be celebrating, my goal was to win and finish my senior year season with a bang. I felt as though everything went wrong for me and the world was out to get me. But then it got me thinking, who else can I blame but myself? Its the way I played that made me...

 In this week of learning, I have gained only a slight understanding of what makes something complex. Generally the word complex means that something has more layers to it than just the surface. Kind of like the quote: “there’s more than what meets the eye”. I’ve come to understand myself and others around me just a little more by seeing their complexity. It is no shock that everyone is in some way complex and unique from everyone else. It is in everyone’s nature to be their own person. I have observed lately that there are people that have different kinds of complexity. Take example the lunch room. People sit with their group of friends and have a fun time eating their food and taking a break from regular classes. Pretty simple right? Wrong. There are so many gaps to this generally accepted ideal. I always see numerous people sitting in their given corner just eating by themselves and it makes we wonder why they prefer that solitude over company. But then again, people wanting the...