What a good week : )

Wow, I learnt a lot this week in all the courses.

For starters in English I learnt have a much greater tolerance for Doubt then I had given myself credit for, I had been to the point where I was begging for no more Doubt. But, then Thom had brought up a point that we are so used to a life were everything is changing all the time, we never spend time on anything, this made me think and I realised he was right. In public high schools we move on to something within a matter of days, our location and scenery is forever changing. The life’s we live are so fast paste that we are not accustomed to spending any amount of time on the same thing. With this new thinking I went in to watching the movie that maybe I could still take something new from the movie, and I did. Prior to watching the movie I was convinced that Father Flynn was guilty after watching the movie, I am no longer sure that is my belief.

I guess I just really learnt the affect that society has on every aspect of our lives, I never imagined that my short attention span was actually normal and was something I learnt from society.

This week in Religious Studies, I learnt so many I interesting things about the Tibetan Book of the Dead and how the Buddhist religion works. One of the things I found the most interesting was the fact that Buddhists do not actually want to be reincarnated they want to reach enlightenment. This was interesting to me because all along I had thought that the main want of a Buddhist was to receive a human birth, but now I understand that that is only the desired re-birth, as it is the only life in which one can reach enlightenment. It was confusing to me at first but now that I understand this I am extremely interested in the Buddhist religion.

I would also just like to add that I am enjoying hearing the stories in Journalism; I think it’s really cool how people opened up and told very real and personal experiences. I can’t wait to hear the rest of them!!

Ps- Thanks Thom for the candy ( :