What is art?
What is literature?
What is love?
What is beauty?
What is a sacrifice?
What is ugly?
As I was reading an assignment for my Brazilian Literature class, I got thinking about how abstract life can be, how we can't often define things in one way and have that way apply to everything in life. Your definition of art is probably very different from mine, and what we find beautiful could also be extremely different. How you feel love for someone is different than how I feel love for someone, and it is not even something that can be put into words and fully expressed.
BYU has a motto, "The world is our campus". I was thinking about this over the last couple of weeks as I was in my geology classroom...out in the field. Just as I am not limited to a classroom to learn, I am not limited to a dictionary definition of abstract words, words that really have no definition. I can spread my wings and fly away with how I interpret things to be, and that's great!
I've got to dig out and dust off my old writing skills, because I'll have quite a lot of writing to do for this literature class...in Portuguese, of course...in fact, I'll have another blog for it, starting next week, which I'll post the link to on here, if any of you are interested and/or speak Portuguese!
Now, I'm off to write a paper for chemistry. Go figure. But it's great to be back in school!!!!!
What is literature?
What is love?
What is beauty?
What is a sacrifice?
What is ugly?
As I was reading an assignment for my Brazilian Literature class, I got thinking about how abstract life can be, how we can't often define things in one way and have that way apply to everything in life. Your definition of art is probably very different from mine, and what we find beautiful could also be extremely different. How you feel love for someone is different than how I feel love for someone, and it is not even something that can be put into words and fully expressed.
BYU has a motto, "The world is our campus". I was thinking about this over the last couple of weeks as I was in my geology classroom...out in the field. Just as I am not limited to a classroom to learn, I am not limited to a dictionary definition of abstract words, words that really have no definition. I can spread my wings and fly away with how I interpret things to be, and that's great!
I've got to dig out and dust off my old writing skills, because I'll have quite a lot of writing to do for this literature class...in Portuguese, of course...in fact, I'll have another blog for it, starting next week, which I'll post the link to on here, if any of you are interested and/or speak Portuguese!
Now, I'm off to write a paper for chemistry. Go figure. But it's great to be back in school!!!!!
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