Children can suffer from a climate of prejudice. Prejudice creates social and emotional tension and can lead to fear and anxiety and violence too. Prejudice can undermine the self-esteem and self-confidence of those being ridiculed and make them feel terrible, unaccepted and unworthy. When that happens, their school performance often drops or suffers. They may become depressed and socially withdrawn and childhood can become a much less happy time.
It is critical that a child is helped by dealing with diversity in a positive way. Prejudice is learned at a very young age from parents, other children and people and institutions outside of the family. By about 4 years of age, children are aware of differences among people, primarily in characteristics like appearance, language and names, but later they are aware of religious and cultural distinctions as well. To some extent, children begin to define and identify themselves through their understanding of these personal differences. This is normal.
As youngsters try to make sense of these individual distinctions, they may hear and accept simplified stereotypes about others. When that happens, they not only develop distorted views of the youngsters and adults they encounter in daily life, but they may start to deny and overlook the common, universal human elements and traits that would bring people together and live in harmony. As a result, intolerance may develop where there should be friendship.
Monday, July 28, 2014
Thursday, May 22, 2014
Music
Music, one of the most beautiful or probably, the only beauty way to express feelings. Sometimes, words too. Magnificent sounds join into one creating beautiful sound to the ears. Music can even touch the heart of people and maybe animals too.
Although it can be beautiful, some of it isn't. Music can express anger, hatred, sadness, and the ill feelings of human too. It is like a remote control which is able to control our emotions. How it works, is mysterious yet wonderfully amazing.
Some genre music can people make people dazzle to it. The beat, the rhythm and the sound of the music is like a guideway for our actions. Dazzling to the enchanting waltz, feeling the vibe the music gives you, is just amazing. Feeling the music and following the vibe of it makes someone a different person. Not completely different but just, different. It is unexplainable but music changes you for that period of time.
Music works differently depending on the genre of it and how we feel it. It can be beautiful but sometimes destructive. Destructive as in brings down a person's emotion. To me, music is one of the essential of living and life.
Although it can be beautiful, some of it isn't. Music can express anger, hatred, sadness, and the ill feelings of human too. It is like a remote control which is able to control our emotions. How it works, is mysterious yet wonderfully amazing.
Some genre music can people make people dazzle to it. The beat, the rhythm and the sound of the music is like a guideway for our actions. Dazzling to the enchanting waltz, feeling the vibe the music gives you, is just amazing. Feeling the music and following the vibe of it makes someone a different person. Not completely different but just, different. It is unexplainable but music changes you for that period of time.
Music works differently depending on the genre of it and how we feel it. It can be beautiful but sometimes destructive. Destructive as in brings down a person's emotion. To me, music is one of the essential of living and life.
Loneliness
Loneliness, it has to be one of the worst feelings I swear. Different people feel loneliness differently. Some feel lonely when they have nothing to do, some feel lonely when they do not have someone by their side and well, some feel lonely every time. I guess, you can't really give a definition to the word 'loneliness' because different people have different perspectives on it.
I wonder, why do we have to feel this way? Why can't we control this terrible and sickening feeling? Is like, we're fine for a period of time and suddenly, the loneliness sneaks into us and mess us up big time. We humans have so many things to do, accomplish or aim in life yet, the feeling of loneliness can come to us anytime and we just can't fully control it. Is like a demon.
Cheerful people, motivated people, happy people and positive people, do they feel this way too? They always have a smile on their face but is it a way to mask their loneliness? Even if is, I'm amazed at the fact that they are doing a wonderful job doing so. Maybe they have really found inner peace and abandon negative feelings such as loneliness.
I have so many questions, wandering around my mind, waiting to be answered and it keeps coming when I'm alone. I despite such feeling. I want to be truly happily occupied because is one of the way I can keep the ill feeling away for a period of time. It'll be nice if there was a way to completely abandon it though. Not just a remedy but, a permanent cure for it.
I wonder, why do we have to feel this way? Why can't we control this terrible and sickening feeling? Is like, we're fine for a period of time and suddenly, the loneliness sneaks into us and mess us up big time. We humans have so many things to do, accomplish or aim in life yet, the feeling of loneliness can come to us anytime and we just can't fully control it. Is like a demon.
Cheerful people, motivated people, happy people and positive people, do they feel this way too? They always have a smile on their face but is it a way to mask their loneliness? Even if is, I'm amazed at the fact that they are doing a wonderful job doing so. Maybe they have really found inner peace and abandon negative feelings such as loneliness.
I have so many questions, wandering around my mind, waiting to be answered and it keeps coming when I'm alone. I despite such feeling. I want to be truly happily occupied because is one of the way I can keep the ill feeling away for a period of time. It'll be nice if there was a way to completely abandon it though. Not just a remedy but, a permanent cure for it.
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Limits
In the beginning, you may seem alright, strong and motivated. After awhile, the things you do because you wanted it, has started to become a heavy burden. It might be easy and all but later on, it gets more complicated, hard and challenging. You want to stop because it has been too long and you start getting tired and worn out. That is when you know, you're at your limit.
Some people, at their limit keep going on. That is how powerful their will is. How much they really want that thing. Anything can be possible once we're focused on our aim. However, it doesn't really work out well and it starts changing the person. Change in a bad way because, they've been struggling for too long until they slowly lose their own self.
The mind is a powerful thing when you fill in positive thoughts. That's how these people keep on struggling because they're motivated. But, everything has its limits. Like a car meter or the running distance of an average human. Sometimes, limits aren't meant to be broken.
No matter how much you go on and you keep falling, try harder. That's people advise to the one who is down. They don't know though, that some people have been doing this for a long time and achieve nothing but failures. No matter how many times they try to succeed. The variation of ways. The time they sacrifice. It's good if they stop though because, it might not be the thing they were meant for. Same goes for people. Sometimes, you're better off without the one who you so desire for. There are limits to everything and to everyone.
Some people, at their limit keep going on. That is how powerful their will is. How much they really want that thing. Anything can be possible once we're focused on our aim. However, it doesn't really work out well and it starts changing the person. Change in a bad way because, they've been struggling for too long until they slowly lose their own self.
The mind is a powerful thing when you fill in positive thoughts. That's how these people keep on struggling because they're motivated. But, everything has its limits. Like a car meter or the running distance of an average human. Sometimes, limits aren't meant to be broken.
No matter how much you go on and you keep falling, try harder. That's people advise to the one who is down. They don't know though, that some people have been doing this for a long time and achieve nothing but failures. No matter how many times they try to succeed. The variation of ways. The time they sacrifice. It's good if they stop though because, it might not be the thing they were meant for. Same goes for people. Sometimes, you're better off without the one who you so desire for. There are limits to everything and to everyone.
Hope
Hope, a belief that could possibly bring someone closer to what they are seeking for, or the other way around. When one hopes too high, it could possibly lead to where they never wanted to go, the end of the road. The end of the road, as in there is nowhere left to go and you didn't find what you were seeking for.
Hope could also be a wish for someone to get better, a chance to start over a new life, for someone to come back after a long period of time and it could also lead to love. However, we shouldn't expect much cause expectations lead to disappointments. That is hope, it could bring your desires or the unwanted. The unwanted could be good but not at first. Is funny how hope works.
Hope is not just a wishful thinking and the conviction that something will turn out well. It's unexpected, sneaky and odd. Hope is a strange invention, a patent of the heart and mind in unremitting action.
Hope could also be a wish for someone to get better, a chance to start over a new life, for someone to come back after a long period of time and it could also lead to love. However, we shouldn't expect much cause expectations lead to disappointments. That is hope, it could bring your desires or the unwanted. The unwanted could be good but not at first. Is funny how hope works.
Hope is not just a wishful thinking and the conviction that something will turn out well. It's unexpected, sneaky and odd. Hope is a strange invention, a patent of the heart and mind in unremitting action.
Saturday, February 22, 2014
Valentine's Day and Love
Valentine’s Day is a day of love and romance for some, a day of chocolate and cards for others, but for many, it is a day of bitterness. Every year when Valentine’s Day comes around, I hear my friends whine about how they don’t have a Valentine. They go on about how much better the day would be if they had someone with whom to share it. Well to be honest, it is quite lonely and sad for those without a Valentine on that special lovey dovey day. But the singles can do many other things to feel love too.
Though this holiday makes big bucks for candy and card companies, they did not create the tradition. The holiday began with a priest known as Valentine, his illegal activities, and the price he paid.
A long, long, time ago, in a place known as Rome, lived an Emperor named Emporer Claudius II, but for the sake of brevity we’ll just call him Claud. Now, Claud wanted to have a big, strong army but unfortunately, the men of Rome didn’t really want to fight in any wars. Anyway, Claud got this brilliant idea that the men didn’t want to fight because they were married and had kids and whatever Tom Dick and Harry you can put on it. So, Claud decided to ban marriage for young men.
Here is where St. Valentine enters. A bishop and rebel who believed in love, he continued to marry couples in secret. That just makes it all the more exciting, in my opinion. On the other hand, how much would a secret wedding feel like? It would just be you, Valentine, and your fiancee.
Needless to say, Valentine got caught. No more secret midnight weddings for him. Claud ordered that Valentine be put to death. During his imprisonment, however, he fell in love with a girl. Yes, there is always a girl. Before his death on February 14, 270 AD, he wrote her a letter and signed it “From your Valentine.” Looks a bit familiar, doesn’t it?
There is some speculation as to how St. Valentine died. Some say that he was stoned and beheaded, others believe he became heartsick in jail and died. Not that it really matters..maybe it does.
The above is only one of many versions of St. Valentine’s story. By now it’s probably so mixed-up that we will never really know what happened, but that is how stories normally goes through generations. What is important is that St. Valentine died for love and marriage and all that mushy, cheesy and lovey dovey stuff. Some people would probably die for the same things. But actually, love is about trusting, compromising, dedication, honesty, forgiving and working as a team. Because two is better than one. Not most of those mushy tumblr post you see nowadays on the internet.
Though this holiday makes big bucks for candy and card companies, they did not create the tradition. The holiday began with a priest known as Valentine, his illegal activities, and the price he paid.
A long, long, time ago, in a place known as Rome, lived an Emperor named Emporer Claudius II, but for the sake of brevity we’ll just call him Claud. Now, Claud wanted to have a big, strong army but unfortunately, the men of Rome didn’t really want to fight in any wars. Anyway, Claud got this brilliant idea that the men didn’t want to fight because they were married and had kids and whatever Tom Dick and Harry you can put on it. So, Claud decided to ban marriage for young men.
Here is where St. Valentine enters. A bishop and rebel who believed in love, he continued to marry couples in secret. That just makes it all the more exciting, in my opinion. On the other hand, how much would a secret wedding feel like? It would just be you, Valentine, and your fiancee.
Needless to say, Valentine got caught. No more secret midnight weddings for him. Claud ordered that Valentine be put to death. During his imprisonment, however, he fell in love with a girl. Yes, there is always a girl. Before his death on February 14, 270 AD, he wrote her a letter and signed it “From your Valentine.” Looks a bit familiar, doesn’t it?
There is some speculation as to how St. Valentine died. Some say that he was stoned and beheaded, others believe he became heartsick in jail and died. Not that it really matters..maybe it does.
The above is only one of many versions of St. Valentine’s story. By now it’s probably so mixed-up that we will never really know what happened, but that is how stories normally goes through generations. What is important is that St. Valentine died for love and marriage and all that mushy, cheesy and lovey dovey stuff. Some people would probably die for the same things. But actually, love is about trusting, compromising, dedication, honesty, forgiving and working as a team. Because two is better than one. Not most of those mushy tumblr post you see nowadays on the internet.
Chinese New Year
Chinese New Year is an important traditional Chinese holiday celebrated by the Chinese race. In China, it is also known as the Spring Festival. Chinese New Year celebrations traditionally run from Chinese New Year's Eve, the last day of the last month of the Chinese calendar, to the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month, making the festival the longest in the Chinese calendar. The Chinese New Year is often referred to as the "Lunar New Year" in the lunar solar calendar.
The source of Chinese New Year is itself centuries old and gains significance because of several myths and traditions. Traditionally, the festival was a time to honour deities as well as ancestors. Chinese New Year is celebrated in countries and territories with significant Chinese populations. Chinese New Year is considered a major holiday for the Chinese and has had influence on the lunar new year celebrations of its geographic neighbours.
Regional customs and traditions concerning the celebration of the Chinese new year vary widely. Often, the evening preceding Chinese New Year's Day is an occasion for Chinese families to gather for the annual reunion dinner. It is also traditional for every family to thoroughly cleanse the house, in order to sweep away any ill-fortune and to make way for good incoming luck before Chinese New Year. Windows and doors will be decorated in red and with popular themes of "good fortune" or "happiness", "wealth", and "prosperous". Other activities like lighting up firecrackers and giving money in red paper envelopes.
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