Look Around You

I really liked Loeb quote and I think he meant the more we have a variety of ideas and beliefs, the more experience we have. To be able to listen to different prospective is like lightening a light inside a dark room. You could walk in the dark and feel the objects around you, but it would make it much easier if you turned the light on! We have to listen and benefit of what information we are listening to and try to analysis it and that would make us think critically of what kind of world we are exposed to.

The story that interested me was about when Hazel was part of the environment movement. Hazel’s friend pointed out to Hazel a small brown bird pecking and eating as it made its way to the tree. Hazel saw the bird working hard for his living, for his food, just like her. The bird always goes up the tree and never down, continuing his lifestyle without complaining! What beautiful about this story is that Hazel developed a new thought that hasn’t been on her mind before. She compared her life to nature. This action inspired her to do and work more and become the secretary of Audubon’s Seattle. I now see that even small things or creatures that are around us teach us a new lesson in life.

To me, living in the United States would be one of the major factors to expose to different people and learn from them. As everyone knows I have a different culture and tradition from here, United States. A simple example would be that the high schools in Iraq have separated boys from girls where each one would have individual high school, unlike here. So, at first this was hard to get along with and hard to become comfortable around. But, I got used to it. We have saying said, “Whoever lived with a nation for more than forty days, becomes one of them.” So, as days went, I started to think that separating boys from girls is wrong because it might empower segregation thoughts toward women. However, people over there would oppose my point of view and I have to respect their opinion. From what I know, I am changing every day by using all the unfamiliar prospective to shape me into becoming a better person.

Every day we learn a new thing no matter how old we are or how much experience we have. I feel that chapter nine has the whole idea of our class, slice: service, learn, inspire, change, and educate. Chapter nine explains about service and how important to be involve because we would learn to speak in public. It also inspires us to accept other people’s opinion in order to widen our thoughts into the big circle and to have knowledge about the world. It would help us interact with the person sitting next to us and live today and hope for tomorrow to come. It would change our expectations into positive ones and to look forward for life adventure and new experiences that we are going to learn the next day.