Happiness, Meaning, and Personal Ethics:
Projecg Reflection:
Paragraph 1: Project Description
Describe the project itself and the direction you personally took it. Which essential question(s) was your project seeking to answer? What was the inspiration behind the direction you took and the perspective you developed?
This project was to get deep with ourselves and think about how we percive life in the happiest way. We had to really think about our lives and how we are living them.” Are we living our lives to the fullest?” We would often have to ask oursleves this question throught out the project which was hard to do when you didnt have the slightest clue what that meant; the fullest. It took me until the last week of project work time to finally come to my own conclusion on what that meant for me personally. We read a number of atricals and a few novles about other perspectives to finding what the purpose of life was. Not only did we need to find how to live our lives to the fullest, but also what it meant to live a purpouseful life that actaully means something to you.
Paragraph 2: New Insights
Please explain what new insights you developed over the course of this project either about yourself, life, the human place in the world/universe? How has your thinking been influenced by our study of philosophy and ethics? You should reference specific texts or ideas from one or more of the sources to illustrate your insights. Answer this question in NO LESS than 10 sentences. Please be specific, proofread carefully, and think about what you are going to say!
Throughout this project you could say I have found insight in my life but not much beucase life is crazy. We cant learn everything we want about life or what purpose we have here but we can come up with our own reasons to make our live meaningful. I have a better insight on what I can do to make my life mean something right now even if none of it will matter in the end. The movie “happy” made me think about how anyone can create meaning and peace with their lives no matter how good of bad their life is. I have found that just being kind everyday to the people around me will create some kind of meaning or purpose of my life. I know that I have worth to help the world around me and sometimes that's can be all the happiness we need. Life can have ups and downs and sometimes we find ourselves lost in our minds or in Chris McCandnless’s case, in the wilderness. But it all makes us rethink how we are using what little time we have here. Are we wasting it? Who knows.
Paragraph 3: Further Questions and Intellectual Work Left to Do
Where do your intellectual quandaries go from here? What do you wonder about now that you may not have before? What questions do you still need to answer for yourself. If you like, include a list of roughly 4-6 questions this project sparked for you about yourself, life, or the human place in the world/universe.
I have been doing a lot of personal change in my life after this project to be a better me. Creating a space around me in which I am making my purpose known to others and to myself. I want to learn how to live up to my full potential in life and go the distance I can to give meaning to myself. I want to go everyday asking myself; “why are you here today?” “what are you going to do to make today worth it?” “how can you change our attitude or surroundings to make a space which nurtures your soul?”
My Art Piece:
Written Piece:
“We’d like to be painters, we’d like to be poets.
We’d like to be writers, but as everybody knows we can’t earn any money that way.
What do you want to do? When we finally got down to something which the individual says he really wants to do,
I will say to him you do that.. and uhm, forget the money.
Once you have found your passion, your life, your dream, go after it and don't let anyone or anything stop you. If you let something get in the way of reaching your goals then you will spend life repeating the waste of time job you get and the waste of time life which is absolutely pointless and stupid.
Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way.
If you take the path you want and get where you truly want to be in your life, it doesn't matter what that might be, you will find someone else who has the same dream as you.
somebody is interested in everything, anything you can be interested in, you will find others will
But it is completely stupid and a waste of our time here to spend our lives doing things we don't like doing to continue living doing things we don't like doing and telling our children to do the same thing with their lives. If we keep with this cycle we will have no meaning in our lives that is worth anything to us. Therefore, it is important to ask ourselves: to what do I desire?
Logic- The Incredible True Story
We’d like to be writers, but as everybody knows we can’t earn any money that way.
What do you want to do? When we finally got down to something which the individual says he really wants to do,
I will say to him you do that.. and uhm, forget the money.
Once you have found your passion, your life, your dream, go after it and don't let anyone or anything stop you. If you let something get in the way of reaching your goals then you will spend life repeating the waste of time job you get and the waste of time life which is absolutely pointless and stupid.
Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way.
If you take the path you want and get where you truly want to be in your life, it doesn't matter what that might be, you will find someone else who has the same dream as you.
somebody is interested in everything, anything you can be interested in, you will find others will
But it is completely stupid and a waste of our time here to spend our lives doing things we don't like doing to continue living doing things we don't like doing and telling our children to do the same thing with their lives. If we keep with this cycle we will have no meaning in our lives that is worth anything to us. Therefore, it is important to ask ourselves: to what do I desire?
Logic- The Incredible True Story
Voices from the Animas:
Piper Rossi
10/10/15
Project Reflection
In this project we focused on the one huge thing that changed the way the world sees our river; The Gold King Mind Spill. There were a lot of questions people were asking such as, “who was responsible for the spill?” “Is the river safe to go in?” “How did this happen?” In out project, we took a deeper look into these questions by asking community members, EPA workers, second graders, anyone who wanted to speak about the river. We did many interviews to hear the thoughts of everyone. We had to remember that everyone’s voice matters and should be heard. We combined this project in humanities with what we were doing in chemistry too. We tested the water to see what was actually in the water.
I learned a lot in this project about how other people see the river and how much we use the river. I realized that I didn’t have a lot of feeling about what happened because it didn’t change how I personally used the river but some of my peers felt differently. This project helped me go deeper personally and academically with what seemed to be a social crisis. This project also helped me realize we need to stop finding someone to blame and find a way to fix the situation now before it continues to be something much worse. We get so hung up on instant gratification and single mindedness that we forget to see the real problem is us. That would be the biggest personal take away from this project.
For the interview part of this project it was hard for me to find someone to interview and I was also scared about being recorded because I hate public speaking and that is almost the same thing. Once I had an interview I wasn’t as scared about it because it was with second graders and I can talk to children easier than an adult. I thought it was amazing how much these kids knew about what happened and I was impressed by their vocabulary. One student said he didn’t empathize with what happened to the river. Who would have thought a second grader would use the word empathize in a sentence? I enjoyed editing the interviews even though it was tedious work it was fun and I learned a lot about how to use Audacity.
Exhibition was not what I had expected. I thought there would be more community members there and I thought it would be filled more. I did think it was cool how we had posters for people to write answers to questions on. That made the community members engage more in the exhibition itself and in our project rather than us presenting to them what we did. At the same time they had plenty of places to check out what we actually did for the project and listen to the interviews that everyone had posted. One thing that did not work well was how slow the interviews loaded and that I had difficulty finding mine on the website to show my family.
I grew to accept other people’s views and perspectives during this project. I can now empathize with other people’s feelings which will help me in the future. Now that I have a better idea of how to empathize with people I will be less tempted to say they are wrong or just ignore their point or perspectives and instead listen and take it in. In a way I feel that by doing this I am willing to be disturbed. Willing to let someone else’s ideas that differ from mine get inside my head and in my heart and maybe even change how I feel.
10/10/15
Project Reflection
In this project we focused on the one huge thing that changed the way the world sees our river; The Gold King Mind Spill. There were a lot of questions people were asking such as, “who was responsible for the spill?” “Is the river safe to go in?” “How did this happen?” In out project, we took a deeper look into these questions by asking community members, EPA workers, second graders, anyone who wanted to speak about the river. We did many interviews to hear the thoughts of everyone. We had to remember that everyone’s voice matters and should be heard. We combined this project in humanities with what we were doing in chemistry too. We tested the water to see what was actually in the water.
I learned a lot in this project about how other people see the river and how much we use the river. I realized that I didn’t have a lot of feeling about what happened because it didn’t change how I personally used the river but some of my peers felt differently. This project helped me go deeper personally and academically with what seemed to be a social crisis. This project also helped me realize we need to stop finding someone to blame and find a way to fix the situation now before it continues to be something much worse. We get so hung up on instant gratification and single mindedness that we forget to see the real problem is us. That would be the biggest personal take away from this project.
For the interview part of this project it was hard for me to find someone to interview and I was also scared about being recorded because I hate public speaking and that is almost the same thing. Once I had an interview I wasn’t as scared about it because it was with second graders and I can talk to children easier than an adult. I thought it was amazing how much these kids knew about what happened and I was impressed by their vocabulary. One student said he didn’t empathize with what happened to the river. Who would have thought a second grader would use the word empathize in a sentence? I enjoyed editing the interviews even though it was tedious work it was fun and I learned a lot about how to use Audacity.
Exhibition was not what I had expected. I thought there would be more community members there and I thought it would be filled more. I did think it was cool how we had posters for people to write answers to questions on. That made the community members engage more in the exhibition itself and in our project rather than us presenting to them what we did. At the same time they had plenty of places to check out what we actually did for the project and listen to the interviews that everyone had posted. One thing that did not work well was how slow the interviews loaded and that I had difficulty finding mine on the website to show my family.
I grew to accept other people’s views and perspectives during this project. I can now empathize with other people’s feelings which will help me in the future. Now that I have a better idea of how to empathize with people I will be less tempted to say they are wrong or just ignore their point or perspectives and instead listen and take it in. In a way I feel that by doing this I am willing to be disturbed. Willing to let someone else’s ideas that differ from mine get inside my head and in my heart and maybe even change how I feel.