Gentle
Light glaze over the ocean
Pure
Never tainted with malice
Shine
Glisten through the mundane
Hope
Strikes up faith to believe
Trust
Sure to be by your side
Guide
Intuitive answers at your will
Path
Make way to deliver dreams
Time
In fragmented cycles it rises
Lonely
Thrives while the world sleeps
Sadness
Eerie Light to pierce the skin
Determination
A light stronger than nightfall
Will
A fight to be seen and heard
Proud
Effects through latent power
Cool
Cold shoulder?... or just hard to understand?
Secret
Takes pride in being mysterious
Shadow
The unknown depth of darkness within the light
Distant
Carrying all emotion inside a glass bottle
Love
Hold whats dear and pure close to the heart
Pain
Leaks through sacrifices; tells a different story
Strength
A shield against life's hardships to see your goals
§hawntal<3
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Mysterious Allure for Life
My original post date for this was on August 20, 2008
What is life but a sequential series of events... or is it? Some people may rely on a force that is larger than they to bring them to their ultimate potential. There are those who think they are what makes the earth rotate day in and day out, and then, there are people like me... people who are somewhere in the middle of this grand scale. All I want is to do what I can to control my life into the direction I most want to go in. Why then does it sometimes seem like no matter how hard you try to walk down one path, you end up either walking backwards, or switching paths unexpectedly? And can you get back onto your ideal path? What about if the odds are grim, or maybe you are going through a detour to get you back on track?
Whatever the case, I still have to ask, What is Life, and what do I want my life to be? I can honestly say that I want to be remembered...remembered as someone who was able to do something of great impact, so that tomorrow will rise with dissipating tension... if only for a while. Regret, slip-ups, failure, I don't find any reason to fear things like this, because I'm here to learn, not just in the class room... not just from your first job, but until I breathe my last breath and use the very last of my senses. Is the theme of my current age group reckless fun? well... if it is, I'd like to put that to question. Because I feel like I'm quickly rising to the challenge of the past, that I can be well equipt to fight through for the future that I want. I'm so blessed to have all that is here with me, and I honestly couldn't ask for anything to have gone any differently, because it is the here and now that will see me to my future goals... They are high... kinda, really high, but I'm not worried about that. I've found my secret happiness, which doesn't consist of finding another 'half' to try and piece together, nor is it by putting others down, or putting them on pedistiles and picking at every little thing. All I can say is that you are the only person who can truly guarantee your happiness, and so I've tapped into it, and you know what...it actually works! Material possessions can only take you so far, that's when the allure of your connection to the world, to those around you, and to yourself have to step up to bat. I'm not hear to have a grand party life while at school, nor am I going to watch while certain people rise above me. I mean some deserve the good fortune that they work for, but not everyone has to work for a good life, and there are some who did nothing wrong, but are in worse shape at the age of 5 then I ever will be. Good, Bad, ...whatever you want to label it, life... can't be explained in terms of what you do in life, but by HOW you go about what you do. I've got a burning passion to use the time I have to the fullest, and who knows... I may actually reach my (very high) goals in time... because I don't exactly know what life is. I think it would be amazing to be able to define life for yourself, and not have to refer to an dictionary, or someone else's philosophy to find out the answer to life. Wouldn't you?
§hawntal<3
Iˆ6
I made this as a guide for how I should lead my life from here on in... hope I can follow through with it lol
1. Inspiration- It has to start from within yourself; your internal drive.
It has to be and fuel your actions and it has to be the underlying passion.
A wish to rise above with the courage to see that wish come true.
2. Intelligence- The ablility to see more than one answer to a problem.
To be objective, yet still stand up for your beliefs. A yearning to know and seek truth.
The privilege to share with others what you learn though your journey.
3. Intuition- The power to use the world around you as an information channel.
The will to stay true to yourself and 'listen to your heart'.
The judge of your true feelings without emotion and irrational logic to block it.
4. Independence- The decision to venture out on your own.
A chance to build a foundation for yourself and learn though experience.
A sense of control with a sense of pride to back it up; A release of fear of failure.
5 Integrity- Respect and love of the self, through truth and reliability.
Trust in others to trust you; Both need to be earned and maintained.
The honesty needed to stabilize security and faith in the self and others.
6. Innovation- The knowledge of the imagination to form something new.
A way to transform the mundane; a way of progression; moving on.
Going beyond the boundaries to bring about change; The allure of discovery.
§hawntal<3
1. Inspiration- It has to start from within yourself; your internal drive.
It has to be and fuel your actions and it has to be the underlying passion.
A wish to rise above with the courage to see that wish come true.
2. Intelligence- The ablility to see more than one answer to a problem.
To be objective, yet still stand up for your beliefs. A yearning to know and seek truth.
The privilege to share with others what you learn though your journey.
3. Intuition- The power to use the world around you as an information channel.
The will to stay true to yourself and 'listen to your heart'.
The judge of your true feelings without emotion and irrational logic to block it.
4. Independence- The decision to venture out on your own.
A chance to build a foundation for yourself and learn though experience.
A sense of control with a sense of pride to back it up; A release of fear of failure.
5 Integrity- Respect and love of the self, through truth and reliability.
Trust in others to trust you; Both need to be earned and maintained.
The honesty needed to stabilize security and faith in the self and others.
6. Innovation- The knowledge of the imagination to form something new.
A way to transform the mundane; a way of progression; moving on.
Going beyond the boundaries to bring about change; The allure of discovery.
§hawntal<3
雨ふり- In the Rain
Reflection of a tarnished soul,
Somber, Tranquil, Soothing,
A Place all its own to replenish.
A Tragedy; Some run to avoid the stain,
A Blessing; A sign to let go, start a new,
Emotion boils over, spilling, it pours out its heart.
The other reality, the judgment before the sun,
A test of character; a will to see past
A secret wish, hoping to be heard.
Romantic outlet for hopes and dreams.
Carry them adrift through the new current,
Just in time to reach the receiver .
My personal favourite interruption.
A rift in time; slow down the pace,
Embrace nature with open arms.
Move my feet and hum a tune,
A chance to sync subjective emotions.
I stand my ground, with a smile in my heart.
§hawntal<3
What Psychology means to me
(This needs more work and will get more attention when I can dive deeper into what this really means to me, but this is it for now.)
Psychology is a rapidly growing field of interest for the general public, but where it came from was from the heart of the individual who wanted to know more about his or her self. I would imagine that it started out with such questions like " Why am I here?" or "What makes so and so so successful?". Philosophers emerged with countless questions regarding human nature, and many people have struggled to find answers to questions that are posed so easily. These questions have always plagued mankind, so why, I ask is a field such as this so new?
Is it because few people wanted to test the waters of such a complex task, or were people too worried about getting their family through hard times? Maybe it was because of a lack of people who held the skills necessary to tackle questions about the human psyche? Who knows... I'm just glad that I live in a day and age where there is an extensive amount of information regarding psychology and human nature.
To me, psych is the study of the mind in retrospect to behaviour, mental processes, evolution over time, and the interaction between the objective and subjective worlds. There are a ton of sub fields in psychology that cater to thousands of jobs, topics covered in the media, societal rules and influences, etc. Fields such as organizational/ business, personality, neuroscience, social, cognitive, clinical, sport, experimental, health, community, cross-cultural, feminine, forensics, academic/ research and many more are currently growing and evolving every year, with lots of discoveries waiting to be found.
Because of the vast opportunities in pschology it gives me, as well as many others the room to grow, change and merge the area of studies we choose to explore in this field. This field is a scientific field, but because of its variety of study and methods of obtaining and sharing information, it can be looked at as a social science or pure science, depending on how complicated you want to go witt it. With that being said, we should note the importance of the brain for relaying information from the objective world to the subjective worlds that each of us create. While Bachelor of arts students may look at the complexities of the brain, its the neuroscientists that turn this field into a science by looking in depth at what the brain is, how it works, and what would happen if certain ares of the brain are damaged or non existant, thus ignoring the notition of the brain as "the mind"
To me, psychology is a window of knowledge into the essense of who we are as a collective species and as unique individuals, and to beable to explore an area such as this, I find it a challenge, and a pleasure wraped into one. I would like to use the skills and knowledge that I aquire from my furure years of study to try and improve the psychological world, and see how much I can give back to the world; this is my way :]
§hawntal<3
Psychology is a rapidly growing field of interest for the general public, but where it came from was from the heart of the individual who wanted to know more about his or her self. I would imagine that it started out with such questions like " Why am I here?" or "What makes so and so so successful?". Philosophers emerged with countless questions regarding human nature, and many people have struggled to find answers to questions that are posed so easily. These questions have always plagued mankind, so why, I ask is a field such as this so new?
Is it because few people wanted to test the waters of such a complex task, or were people too worried about getting their family through hard times? Maybe it was because of a lack of people who held the skills necessary to tackle questions about the human psyche? Who knows... I'm just glad that I live in a day and age where there is an extensive amount of information regarding psychology and human nature.
To me, psych is the study of the mind in retrospect to behaviour, mental processes, evolution over time, and the interaction between the objective and subjective worlds. There are a ton of sub fields in psychology that cater to thousands of jobs, topics covered in the media, societal rules and influences, etc. Fields such as organizational/ business, personality, neuroscience, social, cognitive, clinical, sport, experimental, health, community, cross-cultural, feminine, forensics, academic/ research and many more are currently growing and evolving every year, with lots of discoveries waiting to be found.
Because of the vast opportunities in pschology it gives me, as well as many others the room to grow, change and merge the area of studies we choose to explore in this field. This field is a scientific field, but because of its variety of study and methods of obtaining and sharing information, it can be looked at as a social science or pure science, depending on how complicated you want to go witt it. With that being said, we should note the importance of the brain for relaying information from the objective world to the subjective worlds that each of us create. While Bachelor of arts students may look at the complexities of the brain, its the neuroscientists that turn this field into a science by looking in depth at what the brain is, how it works, and what would happen if certain ares of the brain are damaged or non existant, thus ignoring the notition of the brain as "the mind"
To me, psychology is a window of knowledge into the essense of who we are as a collective species and as unique individuals, and to beable to explore an area such as this, I find it a challenge, and a pleasure wraped into one. I would like to use the skills and knowledge that I aquire from my furure years of study to try and improve the psychological world, and see how much I can give back to the world; this is my way :]
§hawntal<3
My Introduction
Seeing as this is my first day here, I thought I'd give a little introduction as to who I am, what I want to do here, and what you can expect of me.
My name is Shawntal, and I'm a second year undergraduate student at the University of Guelph-Humber. There, I'm taking psychology, and would love to get into either personality, developmental, or cognitive psych. I also have a strong interest in philosophy, but hate to read... hmmm this might serve as a problem ...
This blog would be a place for me to bring my thoughts, feelings, and current knowledge of psychology together. I am also VERY interested in Japan, the Japanese language, and anime, so I will also have tons of things relating to that in here as well. Sometimes I'll add some poetry, or recommend some music, or even just vent, but here I am... I'm going to try putting allof these things together to give the world a little preview of who I am :]
-§hawntal<3
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