#human traits

This is an exercise from the book called "Let's Move the Needle: An activism handbook for artists, crafters, creatives and makers" by Sannon Downey.

The goal is to try to materialize the space between my values and actions and bring those things closer together. I have to write ten traits for the following three categories, which I'll also have written in physical form to talk with my counselor about and to keep me accountable.

I'm posting it here to inspire others. The idea is to make new lists as we navigate life, report back to old lists, and see how things have changed.

For many lives, and even for some not many.

For all you, what would it be?

Ok so humans and senses are pretty cool, imagine other aliens with awesome senses from sensing emotions to even one’s personality. They learn about humans and their 5 senses, however those who are lucky to become close learn about our 6th sense, and they find it horrifying 

Not a human trait, but an action that defines human behavior.

In this post, we shall focus on trying to define how proper communication is seen in romantic relationships.

It could be described as level of expressiveness, may it be verbal or non-verbal.

Some claim that it is the key to a successful relationship, but they never define successful communication.

Does communication stop when the message is conveyed? Or does it stop when the receiver responds? Thus, starting a new message and the loop continues.

Obviously, it requires a source. In relationships, this could mean a small talk, a change in behavior, form of tantrum, a call for argument, or any act of expression.

Now, communication is not completed when there is no one to receive the conveyed message. A listener is important to have communication. The listener may respond according to their own interpretation of the expression that they see, hear or feel. This means that the listener’s reaction maybe different on how the source wants it to be received.

Communication is completed once it is received but does it stop there?

Thundercats Anthropomorphism is when you put human traits on an animal or non-living object.  This can be physical, mental, and emotional.  Sounds very much like personification, right?  It’s why the two get mixed up so often.  We’ll compare them on Friday though.  Gotta leave you wanting more. We see anthropomorphism in a lot of fiction, especially cartoons.  Thundercats, Disney movies, Looney…

Using Personification in Fiction

Yahoo Image Search I’m going to touch on two things this week: PERSONIFICATION and ANTHROPOMORPHISM.  These two literary tactics get mixed up a lot because they’re very similar.  Even the image above isn’t giving the full story.  So, let’s start with the first one.  What is Personification? Simply put, Personification is when a non-human demonstrates human qualities.  This could be an animal or…

It is Human Nature to resonate with Human behavior.

Even if something is "not entirely" human... if it has human traits that people can empathize with and sympathize with... there will be things that move the Heart.

While some might argue that it's frivolous to be "moved" by "fictional works"... that too is an exercise in understanding one's Heart and emotions.

You would be less human if you didn't understand or get in touch with that side of yourself.