Personal Commemoration- Reflection #7

  The event that I am looking forward to commemorate is my graduation which is just about 7 months away from now.This event will be very important to me because it indicates the end of my high school education and it gets me all ready to soon go off to college and be a much better independent learner. Not only this, it will also allow me to realise I am a grown up especially by the age of 18 now and have to soon live on my own without my parents by my side.

   To commemorate this event, I would like to celebrate it by hosting a party maybe at my house whereby I will invite my good friends from SFS to celebrate it with me. To make this event even more memorable, I will encourage my friends to bring along their graduation robes and any other significant memorable items that they have to celebrate our friendship.The purpose of this is I want to arrange a time during the party whereby we can do something similar like a campfire session so everyone will sit in a circle and chat about anything. We might even end up sharing secrets and talk about each other's wonderful memories. This is a good thing because after this celebration day, we will all probably be off to different places in the world and this is indeed going to be upsetting. This may also be the only chance that we can actually express each other's thoughts and feelings so there can be times that we might end up crying or even laughing. I will allow them to wear any clothing they want to the party but I will encourage them to wear their graduation robes at the end of the party so we can all have a group picture together. For food, it won't really matter as much as long as we are all happy and enjoying our times together.  Of course, I will celebrate this event with my family too.

  Because graduation is a really important and wonderful event to commerate in my life, I will hope to be able to have a picture that I can always bring along with me everywhere I go to signify my love for all of my friends and family. I personally think that photos are the best way to keep memories alive forever.

Reflection #6 : The Morality of Greek Myth's

The character in the Greek Myth that I performed in class was one of the nymphs in "The Origins of the Seasons":

This story explains the origin of the seasons like the death of plants in the winter and their rebirth in spring.What happened in the story was that Persephone, the beautiful daughter of Zeus and Demeter was abducted to the underworld by Hades. Demeter who was the Goddess of the earth, was heartbroken and crops withered and it just felt like winter. At last, Hades was persuaded by Hermes (sent by Zeus) to surrender Persephone to her mother. Soon, spring and summer seasons were back when flowers bloomed and living things looked normal again.

I think that the moral of this story is the action of greed but in return with love. This behaviour or action of greed is seen to be natural in the human world. What this story has potrayed from this moral is that one will do anything to get what they want. From this, Hades wants Persephone and steals her away.This is an action of greed and selfishness. This is considered a wrong behaviour. With love on the other hand, we can see when the story progresses the nature of beauty of the feeling to love. With Demeter, she was totally heartbroken when her daughter is gone missing. Because of this strong affection she has for her daughter causes misery to the world. This clearly have indentified the power of love in influencing others.I personally think that because of the power of love one has, i clarified this sense of love to be naturally beautiful.

Again throughout this story, we see that Demeter shows her strong affection for her daughter. She is heartbroken and sad when she heard that Persephone is missing and because of this strong feeling that she has, she affected the change of season. Flowers stop blooming and plants starts withering and this is a clear representation of an upset atmosphere being clarified as winter. But when Demeter and Persephone gets reunited, we can see the changes of seasons to a happier moment. Spring is back and life begins again as plant grow and flowers unfold and young animals are born. The world seems so much better this way. But because of this event, it indentifies the type of life mystery. Personally, I will answer this question in a sense that as a human myself, I do not know God well neither do I know their power and their strengths. After reading and learning deeper about this story, I realized how Gods in general also have the natural feelings and emotions just like we humans do. Often I have always thought that the feel for greed and revenge is a wrong feeling and action to encounter in our life. And from what I learnt before is that, greed is clarified to be one of the sins that humans make. But because of this story, I have realized that Gods also can encounter such situations and feelings around them just like what Hades feel. This then helps me to understand the connection of God to our world. From this story when Demeter was sad, it places a negative impact on living things like how plants starts to wither. This is clearly a feeling that Demeter has shown to the world due to sudden change of seasons. Change of seasons is although by nature it is sometimes controlled by God's doings. Humans can possibly think of this event occuring with connection to God. From my own understanding, what I have said above are mysteries that this myth attempt to answer for myself. I also think that these are what the story itself has taught me in general.

An important virtue for the Greek's just by reading this story would be conducting right action and mind and to demonstrate moral exellence.