Quote of the day!

"No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path." - Buddha

This quote really resegnated with me as it expresses that as individuals we can accomplish anything that we want to. It also is a great quote when you feel lonely and isolated. As it's a reminder that you, as one person, can fufill any goals that you want. 

Macbeth Themes/ Motifs: Connections to Contemp. Context

Ambition: Ambition is the urge of wanting something. It can ruin someone by becoming such a craving that the wanting of success becomes an addiction. Macbeth wanted to succeed in accomplishing a higher order. In present times, people continue to be hungry for the same thing as Macbeth had; money and high social rankings. In today's day and age teenagers will do anything to have their names recognized by the public eye. Some will perform ridiculous stunts and share disgusting images on various outlets on social media. 

Fate and Free Will: In our lives fate and free will work hand in hand. As a nation we are able to make our own decisions. Whether they be good or bad is up to ones fate. Every path you take, you take on your own terms. However, each path you take has a different fate. If you did something bad when you were a child, you were punished; the same goes for when you're an adult. 

Appearance and Reality: People tend to think with their eyes, before researching in what it actually is. Therefore, it makes it easy to be someone that you aren't. Magazines and tv shows are great examples that show how easy it is to fake who you are. The idea of being 'perfect' has been manifested into something or someone that isn't real. Magazines and tv shows present people whom are perfect and live a perfect lifestyle. Having money, beauty, and fame is how people see one another in today's society. 

Be One With Your Community

It's very important for one to integrate themselves into ones community. It allows you to have a voice and a say in decisions that you may be passionate about. If your community holds events or meetings, you should attend them to get yourself recongnized. Make yourself known in a positive way at these events because it will build your character.Mingle with people and wided your social circle. Make connections with people who you thought you'd never speak to. This year I began to volunteer more in my community. I tutor kids with someone who I've grown very close to. I consider her as one of my mentors and as my new found best friend! I have also handed out food on East Hastings many times with my family and some family friends. Interacting with the people whom I was giving food to really inspired me. I am inspired to hear more of their stories and I am inspired by how so many of them changed my life. This coming Summer I am excited to announce that I will be volunteering at the SPCA. I love animals and I think that volunteering for the SPCA will be really good for me. I have learned that with each movement I make in helping someone else, in exchange I am helping myself.

Remember:

Enrich yourself with knowledge, ask questions. Tell people about your adventures and seek stories from the ones who are willing to share. Open your eyes to the world and take a moment to take everything in. Take in the smiles that surround you; watch as moms eyes dissapear as she laughs, as dads nose crinkles and as Rasnas cheeks consume her little face. Feel every emotion that runs through your soul; feel the excitement of your best friends planning a day at the beach, feel the anger you feel when Neelam steals your shoes, feel the love rushing through your cheeks when your handed a bouqet of red roses. Feel everything. Love with everything you have and laugh until you create your own dace. Live your life fully and put all you have in you. Love yourself now, love yourself yesterday and love yourself tomorrow. 

Macbeth Post Mortem Monologue

I was blinded by the status and the fate that I saw before me, the money and the luxuries that would surround me. For a moment, I was living without anything intervening with what I had been responsible for. However as my hands became redder with blood, I began to grow something that would ruin me. I grew a conscience. The guilt flooded each artery that sprouted from my frozen cold heart. Everything from that red memory flooded back into my eyes forcing tears to plunge from my eyes. I feel numb remembering the pool of blood that encompassed the dagger. I see the lifeless pile of nothingness in front of me and I scream. I scream and scream until my voice becomes nothing, just like the dead body that lays in my memories. The image is forever etched into my mind. I try to make sense of my senseless deed. Is it so evil to do whatever it takes to grant myself power and status? It all became so true; the power, the staus, the respect and a price... my prince! However, all fairytales come with 'bad news.' The death of Banquo had people become suspicious. They wouldn't understand! It had to be done! He has to sacrifice his life for a life full of hapiness for me. Each day I woke up I saw blood on my hands and bubbling out of my neck, just as it had done on Banquo. The guilt was eating away at me. I dug a dark dreary hole and avoided it at all costs, now I am at the bottom piled with a weight so heavy. It crushes my insides, I am so weak. I had to turn it off. I also became nothing. In no way did killing myself rid me of the blood on my hands. The death of Duncan follows me to the afterlife. Blood blurs my vision, it is all that I see. Murder has consumed me.

LOFT Disscusion Questions

Are People born evil or does the environment that they are brought up in consume their innocence? For years the behaviour of humans have been watched by philosophers to answer the big question, 'are humans born evil?' Many people have their own answers to this question, some go to religion to seek an answer and some look a pon the events that have occured in their life or someone that they knows life. I have concluded that I disagree with William Golding's look on the human nature being evil at birth. I agree that there are many disgusting humans that walk on our Earth, but they were not born evil. When an infant breathed their first breath, they are pure and innocent. They crave the love of their mother and they haven't yet been exploited to the darkness of our society. A human becomes evil because of situations that they are put in, expectations of love and hapiness that have not been met, and heartbreak. These things create a darkness in ones soul and can sometimes lead them in a place so dark that they completely change. One can completely change from an innocent soul to a savage. The power we hold as humans is so immense that sometimes we don't realize that we're even chsnging, in a blur one can change into a monster because of one little incident. I guess in a way that makes humans powerless, we are powerless of the actions and events that can contort us into the monsters we'd never think we could become. I don't agree with the statement will go along with any type of activity, no matter how violent, when pressured by peers" If you are conscious of your actions, your beliefs and morals will overpower the pressure of whatever wrong acts your peers are asking you to commit. We live in a world where innocence is shattered, it's our job as a community to have proper equipped resources for people to go if they feel that they are becoming something that they wish not to be.

Personality Profile Summary

I have learned that I am an ISFP, through the Isabelle Briggs Meyers personality profile test.
ISFP stands for Introvert, Sensing, Feeling, Perceiving and represents individual's preferences in four dimensions characterising personality type, according to Jung's and Briggs Myers' theories of personality type. Many are considered to be very 'hip' and love to dive into new fashions. Some are even known to be trend setters themselves! ISFPs tend to live in the present instead of having their heads in the future. They love to live free lives without the concern of any stress. They also tend to avoid problems that occur in ones life with distracting themselves. ISFPs tend to be very charming and accounter lots of compliments. They also, are very competitve; whether it be sports, education or even relationships. Many are risk takers and are thought to be very lucky! They love to talk about all of the experience that they have encountered! ISFPs internalize their feelings by judging, rather than talking about them. ISFPs love the spotlight and perform with amazing talent when they are in it. I feel as though I do portray many ISFP qualities. Such as really being myself and trying to set different trends, instead of following someone else!  

Personality Profile Test!

After completing the Isabelle Briggs Meyers personality profile test, I learned that my personality type is a ISFP. ISFP stands for; introverted, sensing, feeling and perceiving. Examples that portray an ISFP include living in the here and now. Which basically means that we love to be in the present before we jump to looking at the future. ISFPs are usually very charming and and recieve many compliments! Our impulses shout to be free and we live very calm and mellow lives. Generally, ISFPs are very competitve in everything they do. Whether, that be sports, school, or even relationships. ISFPs love to talk about all of the experiences they've had throughout their lifetime.