Hello my fellow blog! It has been a very long time since I have written in you, and I missed it! Oh, how I do love blog posts. When we were assigned to do one, I was overjoyed! The best thing about blog posts is that you get to write what you feel about the book and anything else basically.
I walked into the cool Humanities room and I was curios to see what my Lit. Circle group would be. It turns out that I got Kat, Cindy, Hyo Jin and me. We have started a new book, it's called The Giver. So far I find it purely fascinating! It's truly magnificent! Everything about it awes me. The detail of the book is very well written and the main idea is so interesting. So far we have read chapter's one to eight. In the book (The Giver) everything is controlled for you, you have to apply for a wife or a husband, and you also have to apply for children. Every family must have one girl (daughter) and one boy (son). Every year (until the age of twelve) there would be a Ceremony. For example, at the Ceremony of the Nines they get their first bicycle. At every Ceremony you get something new, something different. The most important Ceremony of all times is the Ceremony of the Twelve's. This Ceremony is so important because this is where everyone is assigned their job. Nobody gets to pick or choose their job, it is assigned. In the book as everyone is at the Ceremony of the Twelve's the woman who was reading out the job's (also known as the Chief Elder) skips the main character whose name is Jonas. Later on she says that Jonas has not been assigned, but selected. Jonas has been selected to be the Receiver of Memory. I am not sure what that is but I suppose I will just have to read the other chapters to find out more information. Well anyways, this particular blog post assignment is to answer only one question from the following three questions... (the minimum is three well structured paragraphs.)
1. Would you want your future to be decided by others? Why or why not?
2. How do you feel about the "standard practices" and "rituals" in the community?
3. Why is interdependence fostered in the community?
At the beginning I wasn't really sure which question I should do (as they are all so very interesting). Number One is probably the easiest because there are just so many more things to write about than the other two, so much detail to describe, hmmmm.... maybe it isn't so easy after all. Number Two I do not find very interesting so cross that one out! Now, Number Three, this is a very tricky question. Perhaps this is the question for me.... no, I don't think I could write three paragraphs about that! My final decision is Number One because I think that I can answer it with more detail than the other two.
1. Would you want your future to be decided by others? Why or why not?
- To be quite honest and frank with you I say that I am not sure. Having your future decided for you can be great! You wouldn't have any worries whatsoever because other people would simply be making up their minds for you, but then again deciding your own future is equally spectacular. You get to choose your own paths in life, everything is up to you, but this could lead to silly mistakes. If your future is decided for you, then you could end up with your spouse as your soul - mate, but deciding this by yourself could lead to a divorce or even worse..... MURDER!!!! There are many things that could go wrong if you decide your future by yourself, and there is basically nothing that could go wrong if other people decided your future for you.
Now lets say that I have my future decided by other people who I do not even know. The things that are good about this is that I won't ever have to worry about anything going wrong or dangerous happening. I won't have to worry and fret about getting a job that I do not like because it will be given to me, the job that I will be assigned to would suit me perfectly, I wouldn't go home complaining that I despise my job, I would go home and tell my family that I love it. Everything about my job would be suited to me, my personality. The same thing goes for a husband, (in my case husband but in some other cases wife) my husband would probably end up being my perfect soul - mate. They are going to end up as my perfect soul - mate because they are about the same at everything as I am. What I mean by that is that they have about the same skill/level of intelligence, the same amount of charisma and so and so. These are the good things about having your destiny predetermined. But the bad things or not so good things are that your whole life would probably be very boring and not fascinating at all. You wouldn't love the person who you are assigned to marry off to, you would just be with them and be totally okay with that. But that really isn't love. Your life would be boring because you don't get to make choices, okay, not simple choices like what color pen should I use, red or green or blue? That doesn't matter. But choices like, how many children do I want? Do I even want children? What job should I have? None of this you can choose! This is why your life would be so very uninteresting. Everything is already thought out for you, even though it is extremely organized, there is not really feelings and emotions, but really though, life would simply be too uninteresting.
Now, the good things about being able to choose your own destiny is that you get choices. Basically that's about it. I mean I know it's one little small thing, but actually it isn't. Having choices in life can mean anything. You can have the choice of what to say, basically the choice of anything. Choosing your ideal husband would be more entertaining than making an application for one, because if you just apply for one then you will only be with one man in your whole life, but if you get to choose your husband.... well let's say that you could be with more than one man and then know who you want to marry, or what type of man you would like to marry (or woman for some cases). And finding your perfect soul - mate is much more entertaining that just applying for one. Lets see, if you have to find your soul - mate you could be chasing half way around the world for them, but think of it like a quest or a journey. It'll always end up happy and entertaining. Now the not so good things about having the freedom to choose is that it is simply human nature to make mistakes. If you date the wrong guy he could beat you up and physically abuse you. Or if you take the wrong job you may come home being depressed everyday because you absolutely hate your job, therefore causing you to hate your life. Mistakes also could be something like choosing a perfect (or so you think perfect) house and you take a five - year contract on it, later you find out that it's haunted but how will you escape!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? Life, as we know it, is amazing, and I think we should all appreciate that and not complain about little unimportant things.
Now, the choice that I will make is......
NOT HAVING MY FUTURE DECIDED FOR ME!
Now that I think about it I do not want my future to be decided for me. Why would I? I know that life would be organized, but it would be such a bore to live a life like that! I'm one of those people who don't want to be told what to do! It really does bother me actually (even though I do not show it) because I feel useless and unwanted. But still, even though the choice of freedom can lead to mistakes this is how us humans can learn. We will learn from our mistakes so we never do them again. If we have freedom EVERYTHING is better. I know that I would want to choose my own job. I want a job such as a doctor, or even a lawyer. But if the choice was taken away from me and I end up being a birth mother..... well let's just say that the word "upset" is an understatement. I WOULD BE OUTRAGED. The exact same thing goes for finding a husband, (or wife for all you guys out there) I would like to find my own husband, not have somebody choose one for me. Seriously, what kind of life is that really? Think about it! You do not get to decide anything, but without love and pain you cannot truly live your life to the fullest potential. Now you know my choice, so how about yours?
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