Marjane Satrapi
Dubito, ergo cogito, ergo sum
Monday, December 5, 2011
Journal #2
Competition: It can be either created in a "healthy" or an "unhealthy" way.
A healthy competition is the one that makes a society progress in a positive way.
It makes it reach a level of superiority by making each side of the competition overcome their weakness and thus, a new era of knowledge is created. There is no light without it's darkness. This can be applied to the concept of competition as well. The unhealthy competition attracts negative vibes from people. It makes them lose sight of the reality and makes them think themselves as a superior person in every aspect they are capable to think of. Competition can either bring the optimum personality of an individual/society or bring forward an aura of envy and the appetite for destruction
A healthy competition is the one that makes a society progress in a positive way.
It makes it reach a level of superiority by making each side of the competition overcome their weakness and thus, a new era of knowledge is created. There is no light without it's darkness. This can be applied to the concept of competition as well. The unhealthy competition attracts negative vibes from people. It makes them lose sight of the reality and makes them think themselves as a superior person in every aspect they are capable to think of. Competition can either bring the optimum personality of an individual/society or bring forward an aura of envy and the appetite for destruction
Journal #1
Spectrum
Red is the soft touch you feel when your beloved touches your hand.
You do not only see Red, you feel it and when you accomplish this, you can as well, see the magnificent spectrum of life. You feel the warmness of the souls colors and become one.
Red is also inside us. It is not only the color of the warm blood falling through your hands as you accidentaly cut yourself with a knife while trying to make dinner, Red is the color of an emotion. But it also depends on your emotion you desire to give Red. It can be the love you feel, the anxiety that begins to eat you slowly from the inside out, or the peace your find in an accomplishment you made.
Red is how you make it. Red is how YOU feel because RED are your feelings and thoughts.
Red is the soft touch you feel when your beloved touches your hand.
You do not only see Red, you feel it and when you accomplish this, you can as well, see the magnificent spectrum of life. You feel the warmness of the souls colors and become one.
Red is also inside us. It is not only the color of the warm blood falling through your hands as you accidentaly cut yourself with a knife while trying to make dinner, Red is the color of an emotion. But it also depends on your emotion you desire to give Red. It can be the love you feel, the anxiety that begins to eat you slowly from the inside out, or the peace your find in an accomplishment you made.
Red is how you make it. Red is how YOU feel because RED are your feelings and thoughts.
Journal #7
Ghost in the Shell
A concept I would introduce to a primitive culture would be spirituality.
This concept would help the culture develop in ways to an extent when they reach enlightenment
and find their true selves. This concept alone, of discovering oneself can be interpreted in diverse ways depending on the culture and its people. It is beyond scientific concepts the definition of life itself, for I believe, life does not only consist in having a heartbeat, or to breathe or for us to just "be here".
It consist in memories, thoughts, and emotions of oneself, because without them, we are just a ghost in a shell.
A concept I would introduce to a primitive culture would be spirituality.
This concept would help the culture develop in ways to an extent when they reach enlightenment
and find their true selves. This concept alone, of discovering oneself can be interpreted in diverse ways depending on the culture and its people. It is beyond scientific concepts the definition of life itself, for I believe, life does not only consist in having a heartbeat, or to breathe or for us to just "be here".
It consist in memories, thoughts, and emotions of oneself, because without them, we are just a ghost in a shell.
Journal #8
"Dubito, ergo cogito, ergo sum" 
The quote that best describes my personality is:
"I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am" by the French philosopher and writer René Descartes.
My interpretation of this quote is that what defines a human being is their capability to think.
However, we can sometimes lose ourselves in life, but that itself, it's what makes us who we are.
Are capability to think, doubt and relate things a certain way is something unique.
Something we should not see as a weakness, but as an ability to learn from mistakes.
The act of doubting one's existence is proof of the reality of one's own existence, because doubting does not make you less strong, less intellectual or less of a person.
This quote describes a part of my personality because it is proof of our existence but it also does not prove our existence at all.
The same happens to me.
People try to describe me in various ways however, I believe that by doing so, they are capable to describe me yet at the same time they do not describe me at all. This is also related to stereotypes.
People often make the aberration of trying to categorize everything they can.
I do not believe in this.
I try no to stereotype people for what I see on their outside, not only because I see this as an act of disrespect towards their person, but as a lack of respect towards myself.
The quote that best describes my personality is:
"I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am" by the French philosopher and writer René Descartes.
My interpretation of this quote is that what defines a human being is their capability to think.
However, we can sometimes lose ourselves in life, but that itself, it's what makes us who we are.
Are capability to think, doubt and relate things a certain way is something unique.
Something we should not see as a weakness, but as an ability to learn from mistakes.
The act of doubting one's existence is proof of the reality of one's own existence, because doubting does not make you less strong, less intellectual or less of a person.
This quote describes a part of my personality because it is proof of our existence but it also does not prove our existence at all.
The same happens to me.
People try to describe me in various ways however, I believe that by doing so, they are capable to describe me yet at the same time they do not describe me at all. This is also related to stereotypes.
People often make the aberration of trying to categorize everything they can.
I do not believe in this.
I try no to stereotype people for what I see on their outside, not only because I see this as an act of disrespect towards their person, but as a lack of respect towards myself.
Journal #9
Culture Day
If I could create a holiday, I would create the Cultural Day.
The purpose of this day would be to promote culture and art of different countries around the world
This would help us understand other cultures in a more efficient way.
Culture Day would have exhibitions of different cultures.
Each year, a country would have a different culture visit them.
For example, in Mexico, they would have an exhibit of the japanese culture meanwhile, in japan they would have an exhibit of Mexico's folklore, traditions and its cultures.
If I could create a holiday, I would create the Cultural Day.
The purpose of this day would be to promote culture and art of different countries around the world
This would help us understand other cultures in a more efficient way.
Culture Day would have exhibitions of different cultures.
Each year, a country would have a different culture visit them.
For example, in Mexico, they would have an exhibit of the japanese culture meanwhile, in japan they would have an exhibit of Mexico's folklore, traditions and its cultures.
Journal #10
"Be Shiny. Be yourself."
I believe the best you can do in this life is to be yourself.
That is why this advice has stayed with me since I first heard it.
You can fall and break into pieces, you can fall in love or you can bury a rose.
You can fall and break into pieces, you can fall in love or you can bury a rose.
But the way you make this happens its what defines you.
The way you think about each and every single one of your actions
is what makes you who you are.
If you pretend to be someone you are not, you will not
be able to find happiness, nor meaning in life itself.
That is why above everything we do, say or make
we have to be ourselves and be true with who we are.
11. Ask and answer the one important question that a university won't ask you, but you wish they would.
What is life?
"What is the meaning of life?
Whatever you want it to be."
-James Frey
Life is being yourself.
It is not just "being here", living and enjoying life.
Life begins with a heartbeat and end with the same beating of a heart.
But what we do, what we think and what we say make a life.
The concept of life is something one must have by themselves, because it is our perception of life that defines us.
I wish universities asked this question, as simple as it may sound.
But I find it fascinating to know other people's thoughts in the concept of life itself.
Because this thoughts make them.
And their thoughts are a manifestation of their soul...
What is life?
"What is the meaning of life?
Whatever you want it to be."
-James Frey
Life is being yourself.
It is not just "being here", living and enjoying life.
Life begins with a heartbeat and end with the same beating of a heart.
But what we do, what we think and what we say make a life.
The concept of life is something one must have by themselves, because it is our perception of life that defines us.
I wish universities asked this question, as simple as it may sound.
But I find it fascinating to know other people's thoughts in the concept of life itself.
Because this thoughts make them.
And their thoughts are a manifestation of their soul...
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