Man Selfish! Lol

I have always believed that no one was selfish till I started to notice it a lot more from many people. I learned from my parents not to be selfish because it is not going to get anywhere. It is in some ways true, it is good to be give to the people in need, it is good to post signs for a missing dog. But sometimes you have to be selfish. At times it can be hard and other times we just do not care, for me I am selfish in my own ways. I think about other people feelings and I think of how selfish I will be if I do not consider everyone feelings. About two years ago, I was with a guy for almost a year and he had everything going for him. He knew exactly what he wanted to do, and how he was going to go to a good school and make it so he can survive in a time where the economy was bad. Towards the end of our relationship, it will be argument after argument. Arguments about everything from being at a party to just saying the wrong thing. Arguments would be over the most pity thing. We had got into an argument about him actually getting into UC Davis. I remember he called me and he was super excited and I was being selfish about the whole thing. His happiness to go to UC Davis went elsewhere after he had talked to me. I started telling him about us seeing each other, if he will have time and many more things. We decided to be together but he would be living in dorms. I did not like that too much. I did not realize how selfish I was being till I started to really think about. The only way to stop being selfish was to let him do what he had to do. He had to go to school and I had to stop being so selfish. I was bringing him down and as much as I did not want to let him go, I had to know I had to. I felt as if this guy was doing so much and he did not need any my selfishness. He needed someone to support him and all he does. I was not helping at all. After that event, I decided to change my ways, I have learned to be supportive and also not be selfish. My lesson was well learned after that.

Blog Number Two!

The various ways we respond to literature is some of us find it boring to read. We think a book or a good piece of literature is going to be boring, but once we start to read it, we find that this piece of literature is not as bad as we thought. In fact, it shows us a lesson about life, how we think that it should be done if it happens. Once we are interested in that piece, we get sucked in to the story. I remember the first time I read Romeo and Juliet I did not want to read the book but once I started to read more and more of the story, I was sucked in I finished the book in three or four days. There are times when a person might find a book beyond boring, as you read the book many people could say “Oh this book is a good one, it made me cry”. You read the book and your attention is elsewhere. You are not into the book and you read the book but your interest in it is nonsense. Some people including me when I am reading a book that does not grab my attention, I am not paying attention to it. I read the book but I am texting or doing something else so I do not have to read the book. If I was reading a book that my psychology teacher assigned me, I ignore texts and calls from everyone. The reason why I ignore everything and everyone is because psychology grabs my interest in every way. It goes the same for literature.
Our lives can change in so many ways if we read a good piece of literature. The reason why is because there are so many lessons to be learned and it makes you think critically and you can analyze everything. I read a book called the Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. The main character teaches you what love is and how it feels to lose someone you love. It teaches you to stick up for yourself no matter if you are poor person, in the novel, a woman fighting to show she is an educated woman. You read the book and you start to put yourself in the same situation and you think you do not want to be like that. A person wants to live above that, in many ways you begin to understand and put yourself in the position of the character. You start to know the story and the characters experience. People start to notice their emotions in the story and they might have experienced the same situation. The stories teach you an experience and also a new challenged and they make you think outside the box. Once a person starts to critically think a story, they start to get more into the story and then start to put themselves in those situations. Reading good literature could and most likely will teach a new experience and challenge.

Literature

Literature to me does matter because without it we will be watching drama shows such as Bad Girls Club and Jersey Shore. I have seen good pieces such as the Notebook, it is a good book and it made me see love. We can put Twilight, it is a modern day Romeo and Juliet with a human girl and a vampire. In my Spanish class last semester, for a project the class had a choice to go see a play called Don Juan Tenorio. It was written in the 1844, it has a mix of Romeo and Juliet and teaching a man not to be selfish. Literature has a better meaning and it is to make everyone realize what the meaning of life is, it helps you see past experiences. There are many stories that have good views of any type of problem. A person has to be open to read it.
Many people have seen Romeo and Juliet, the story was written by William Shakespeare. Till this day I see the movie on Showtime. It is the newest version but it is based on the original story. Literature is written to give people a new thought of life. It is there to make someone realize new things. A person can get an understanding in the past time when literature was coming from the best. Literature can talk about war, love, happy, sacrifice, and life in general. I can honestly say I have not read much literature besides what I have read in my English classes but literature seems to grab much attention. Literature will help anyone learn new things and make you think further into a situation. Literature matters to me because it shows me how to experience life. Literature has a way of speaking from a point of view that anyone can possible relate to. Literature will inform a person of how life is, how to love, give a person a different point of view. It can help you change your view because you can read something and think I do not want to be like that. There are many ways reading and literature can make you see things differently.
In this class, I want to learn more about the literature. I want to read more of the literature that makes you think and importantly inform you of how times use to be. In some of the literature I have read has made me see differently. I want this class to help me see that reading any kind of literature is good to read and no matter how much it may sound boring it has a meaning to why it is and has been written. I see the world differently. I can be closed minded when something does not get my attention. I want to be able to change that in this class. I want to be able to read or at least know about Hamlet and Roots without it boring me. I know what they are about but I want to be able to read them fully. Just how I read Twilight without it boring me.