Blog #11

     Walking through the rotunda, checking out everyone's projects, one in specific caught my eye,  the "We Are All Human" project. The reason I liked it so much was because of its' truthfulness and applicability to today's society. We are all human, we feel the same things, and experience similar pain. Like Ms. Cassidy stated in class today, "[Islamic extremists] are not monsters, they just do monstrous things." I know it might be strange to think about but we share a lot of similarities with these people and people everywhere; we love our family, we spend time with friends, we hope to have a good future for ourselves and children, we have stress, we get anxious and tired and depressed and irate and lonely. So if we have so many similarities with each other, let us build each other up instead of ripping each other down.

     This reminds me of a quote and the main idea in the recent Cinderella movie, "to have courage and be kind." Here poor Cinderella is, her father just died, the last real family she has, and now she is stuck being the servant to here awful stepmother and stepsisters. But not once did she act cruel to them, even though it was completely warranted. Cinderella loved those who cursed her and turned the other cheek (  Luke 6:28-29). Courage, defined by the Oxford Diction is, "the ability to do something that frightens one" and "strength in the face of pain or grief." Sometimes the scariest or hardest thing to do is to be kind, especially when you are frightened of the outcome or don't really want to.