Carolina Brasac

When I was younger my parents took my sisters and I to Europe. We visited a lot of unique and famous landmarks and buildings. We first went to Paris, then London and Amsterdam. One day we took a trip to go see stonehenge and to me that was the most amazing experience ever. It was amazingly beautiful. It got me wondering how were humans even able to move such stones back in the day. It was just a breathtaking experience. Tried looking for a picture of me there but i couldn't find it. The stones where huge about 13feet tall. its believed that the monument was build around or could have been there around 3000BC which is just amazing. 

This story was a very tough one for me to read because it’s a true story. Many horrible things happened to innocent people. Although it’s a tough read I think everyone should educate themselves about the Holocaust so we can try to understand it and make sure it never happens again. Even that something similar will never occur. The way that one human was okay with just hurting and torturing another human is a scenario that I cannot begin to imagine. They way things where planned out. The camps where constructed and completely thought out to torture humans.

Out of the 4 poems this poem stood out to me the most. that is for two reasons. The first reason is because it feels to me like a realization of how everything, even an item that seems so meaningless, can be of big importance to someone. Before i started typing this blog entry i looked around my room to see if If there was any item i felt i couldn't live without or that had great importance. The truth is theres nothing that i truly need materialistically to live but it helps my personal quality of life. I look to at a piggy bank that i have in my room. seems small and unimportant but it brings so much happiness to my son when he puts coins in there. its the small things that so much depends on. It also stood out to me because of the story of about how the author was a pediatrician and the meaning behind this might have just been him taking a moment and looking out the window. Even if the meaning is simple and it was just him writing about what he saw it has its own meaning to me and id like to think that the meaning is that no matter how insignificant or unnoticed something is or someone feels something or someone depends on them.

Carolina Brasac

“We must cultivate our garden,” I think by this Voltaire meant that we must work on ourselves either as a whole or ones self. A garden does not grow over night just as a person doesn’t mature from one night to the next. It takes time and love as well as determination and consistency. One must also create their own happiness. You cannot depend on someone to make you happy. This is what I take from this quote possibly due to the fact that its something I have recently realized. When I was younger I was always emotionally dependent on other people and after much time struggling with this I realized that I create my own happiness. I create my own garden. I think as much as he wants to understand the world he realizes the only thing one can do is focus on yourself and work to make yourself great. Take care of yourself and build yourself to being great because you can’t control the world around you.

-Carolina Brasac

The story “Half a Day” to me is somewhat of a representation of how a lifetime actually feels. I have realized that many of my own family members feel the same way. As though life flashes by you in a blink of an eye. In story “Half a Day” the protagonist starts off as a kid scared to go to school and ends seeing himself as a grandpa. The story made me “woke” to the fact that life is in fact short and its important to live it to the fullest because one day we will be old. Time isn't something that we can stop or something that we can get back. Time continues, we get older. The story really got me thinking of how true it is. Even though I am only 22 years old I felt that. It feels like yesterday I was a toddler begging my mom to let me sleep in-between her and my dad at night. Now I have my own child begging to sleep with me at night. Also I became “woke” to how worries change in life and sometimes things feel very worrisome like your first day in school or your first day in a job but everything is temporary. Like I said before time can’t be stopped which means things change.