Here I will place the reflection essays that I made during class.
Hi my name is Lloyd Jialal and I am 22 years old. And for the subject what´s in your backpack we have to write a reflection essay. To be honest I have no idea how exactly I should write this reflection essay but I guess I will just do the same thing as I did with my blog as I noticed that some people enjoyed that way of writing. So I guess I will just simply write what I am thinking and think about how the previous lecture has affected me.
I hope with these types of lectures that I will be able to learn more about myself, perhaps things that I didn’t know yet or haven´t realized before. I believe I will be fun to get to know myself more in such a manner.
And the previous lecture helped me to see once again I simply enjoy being different and that I really desire to create in various ways. And it has been this way ever since I was a little kid. I also decided to dress a bit more differently from most people as I decided to mainly started dressing only black and white. At the start of things when I started doing thing differently it was kind of tough since I was also being treated differently as a kid. And to me since it was new it was quite odd to experience all of that as a kid but as it continued I was really happy that I was different. And after a while most of the things I did started to have meaning.
Because by trying to be different I became a lot more open minded in comparison to my childhood friends. And all of this only helped me see that I want to create things for this world that are quite different from the things currently out there. And also to share some things of myself to people who are also quite open minded to those types of things.
Whether it is created by my mind or by my hands I always enjoy how the things that I create are my personal style. One of the things I enjoy to create in my spare time is my written stories that I occasionally share with others.
I desire to write, to write the unwritten stories that lie deeply writing the depths of my mind. To write the stories that will please my audience and myself. To be the author that will be looked upon, smiled upon, frowned upon and perhaps even laughed upon. But none of that really matters as long as I keep doing what I really love to do, and that is writing... For others... ~Lloyd
Today we had very interesting topics to discuss and to think about in our class of What´s in your backpack. The more I attend to these classes the more I enjoy them as I learn more about myself every class I partake.
At the start of the class we looked at some videos and at the first video showed us that by not accessing information on our most optimizable time might cause the brain to block it out. The example they gave in the video was that if a person doesn’t learn a language during the first years of its life it might never be able to learn a language. I found that quite crazy, and I thought about myself if my brain might have blocked certain things out due to the fact that my interests may lie somewhere else. But would I have missed out on something great? If it didn’t interest me, was it actually truly something worthy for me? That is something not even I can answer to be honest.
The second video we watched showed us that as time progresses the average intelligence of mankind increases. We look upon our past to see the great things we have achieved and build upon the things that our ancestors have built for us. The video showed us that we should be happy for being born now, since all the previous people gave their information to our generation. I believe that being born at any given time is a time we should be happy about because every position within a timeline has their benefits and their disadvantages. As for the information part then yes we have access to an unbelievable amount of information due to the fact that we live in the internet age.
The third video showed us a person that quit school to do the things he wanted to do, and in the end he realized he wanted to be a teacher. The main message of the third video was that we should do the things that interest us as it enables us to learn with passion, to learn more/faster than things that doesn’t interests us. They also showed us the message that we shouldn’t be scared to be wrong. The current world teaches us that making mistakes is wrong as we are punished when we are wrong and rewards us when we are correct. Being wrong and making mistakes allow us to see what we could possibly change to help us grow, from mistakes we learn the most.
After watching all of these meaningful videos I came to a conclusion that all these videos were linked to each other even though they were from 3 different YouTube channels. They were linked to each other because they helped to deliver the message that the teacher had for us. Or that’s what I believe at least. And that message was that we should find the things we are passionate about and don’t be afraid to walk that path, as that path is our own path and it shapes us for us to be simply us. Don’t be afraid to make mistakes as we learn from them and learn the things you are passionate about. So going back when I wondered if I missed on something great even though I wasn’t interested in them, I guess it doesn’t matter. Because in the end this is who I am today, thanks to all decisions I made to walk this path, some may have been the correct choices and some may have been the incorrect choices but it still doesn’t change the fact that they were my choices.