Meditation

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The meditation we did in class was very peaceful. It was calming and I can see why people would do it for hours. After the first few minutes I lost track of time and I could have been meditating for hours but it would have only felt like a few moments. Meditating feels a lot like when I am swimming. I focus only on moving forward and I get so in the zone that I could swim for hours. Much like when I come back from swimming, meditating leaves me much calmer and focused.

When I Think of Meditation…

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When I think of meditation I think of calm deep thinking. Meditation is not just something you do in your yoga class, it can be done anywhere. A person who is stressed out might take a few deep breathes to clear their head or someone could meditate for hours without moving. These are both meditation but they mean different things to each person.

                Meditation is a clearing of your head where all your worries and concerns are wiped from your mind. All you can hear is your breathing and you are completely free from the outside world. A person might meditate to calm themselves after a stressful day or they might meditate for spiritual reasons. Whatever the case meditation is a great way to organize the mind and calm your body.

The Bluest Eye: Remembering and Observing

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Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye whisks you off to a poor African American community where you immediately begin to understand what the characters are facing. The story firs starts chanting a description of what is believed to be the perfect life, thus creating the image of how obsessed these people are with the “perfect” life. The story is told mostly through the eyes of a young innocent girl named Claudia. Through her eyes you get a vivid idea of what people in her area must be going through. They are facing poverty and discrimination based on the way they look but to a young child this all seems like a normal way of life. Though she does not understand what is being said she observes a great deal of the conversations held by the adults. Some of them are about Pecola, a young girl a little older than Claudia, who idolizes the people with blond hair and blue eyes. Claudia observes this adoration as senseless because she does not yet understand that people have a higher opinion of those with blond hair and blue eyes. Claudia’s perspective of the world around her is innocent and untainted which makes for a good start for the novel.

What is Equality?

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Equality is fairness for everyone, and no one person has more than the other. Whether it is equality within a social status or material possessions, everyone strives for equality in some way. A disabled man wanting the same job opportunities as his friend or people from India who are against the caste system both have the same thing in common, they want to be considered just as important as another. When people are socially equal it means that no one person is looked at as higher or superior to another. Everyone is looked at with the same amount of respect and reverence as the other. In The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison the main character Pecola is a young black girl who feels that in order to be equal she must have blue eyes and blonde hair. However, who is to say that a person’s looks is the deciding factor to whether they are equal or not. Pecola feels that looks make a person equal but another person might think that what you possess decides how equal you are.

            In order for true equality to work everyone has to have the same mindset but the problem with this is that it is human nature to strive to better themselves and have more than the other. Therefore, complete equality is nearly impossible to obtain especially in America where we put such high value on the amount we have and our status in life. All together equality is something that people work for because it promises that you will have the same opportunities and the same advantages as everyone else. But this also poses another question; in order for true and complete equality to thrive wouldn’t everyone have to be exactly the same?