I am pretty sure that what I believe is still in the making. I am young and have loads of things to learn, but as for right now my most affirmed belief plays out kind of like this...
I believe that experience is the most powerful and honest source of knowledge. Doing things is always better than, listening to them, or watching them, or reading about them. Yes, in some cases waking up hungover seems worse than just listening to your parents advice not to drink, but then there is always that what if, that lingering question in the back of your mind. I believe that without personal experience than nothing is fact or truth or even real. When someone is there, all wrapped up in whatever it is, there is no out and no excuses, no room for judgment or persecution, the situation is what it is and that is all. Whether I am talking about prejudices, breaking the law, religious dedication, sexual orientation or simply an everyday lifestyle I believe that no outsider should be entitled to make any judgments on that person or their choices. I believe that differences are what make the world keep spinning and without a firsthand account of a situation or person then there is no need, or room, for disapproving judgments.
5 comments:
Bailey-
I completely agree with you that experience is the best way to learn. You can never learn that something is wrong until you actually do it, and have to live with the consequences. Or the other way around, you will never know you like something until you do it.
-Erin
Bailey-
I also agree with you that experience is the best form of knowledge. If you do not personally experience something than I do not think that you will actually be able to understand what that thing means. I think that you need an experience to change you as a person in order for you to understand and learn it.
I completely agree with you on both points. I kinda wrote a similar blog saying that people should experience other cultures, but having experiences in general is very important. You will never know the actual feeling or emotional aspect or the consequences of something until you experience it, and learning from experiences is one of the main ways people can grow.
I though this blog was really powerful. It was written very well, and I really loved the idea behind it. I could really appreciate how it related to what you read in class. My sister was the mean girl/popular kid in 7th grade, but she has gradually been growing to accept that different doesn't equal bad. I've watched the transformation you experienced happen in my own sister, and I hope that she will eventually come to reach the conclusion you talked about in this blog.
I also believe in this. I know for a fact that i have learned and developed as a person from different things that I have gone through and experienced. They help me see my faults, and mature from them. Even if that sounds really cheesy...it's very true.
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