So… here we are. Writing a post… near the start of a project… yeah. Well, we may as well get this over with, after all, I’m writing this late at night, and my sinuses are pounding, and last night I ate WAY too many sour skittles left over from the movie I had seen the night before, making my teeth still hurt because of my poor habits when it comes to taking care of oral (don’t even) health. Ugh, first world problems, right? Regardless, that’s enough about my physical condition, now you need an update on my unsolicited* opinions!
*Please note that if you’re the ONLY person reading this, than you did indeed ask for my opinions
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So, you’re probably wondering exactly what this post is about. Well, simply put, its about stories of hope. If you want the more extensive definition, keep reading. My task with this post was to create a definition for the driving question of this project, and the terms related to it. First of, the driving question: “What is a Story of Hope?” A story of hope, as I would define it, is a story of survival, due to one’s resilience in the face of adversity. To put it another way, a story of hope is a story about how people have managed to live through the challenges, obstacles, and hardships that have, one way or another, found their way into their lives, through the use of courage, determination, or sometimes even just blind luck. Most importantly, a story of hope is a story that we can look to in hard times to gain inspiration for how to deal with the troubles ahead, and to ensure that the mistakes of the pst are not repeated.
Now, if you were paying attention, you may have noticed that I dropped 3 important terms in my first explanation. In class, we have bee both studying and, dare I say, debating these terms recently. I believe, that if I didn’t before, I now have a pretty good definition of what these words mean. Survival is the act of living through an event, typically associated with hardships, for example, if you were, say, bitten by a shark, (which nearly never happens, sharks kill <10 people per year, whereas humans kill tens, or even hundreds of millions of sharks per year, don’t call out sharks on their thirst for blood you hypocrite!) you would be considered a survivor, or someone who has survived. Resilience, for its part, is one’s ability to stay strong and rise again when faced with problematic circumstances. The difference between survival and resilience is that survival is simply the act of surviving, whereas resilience is when one goes beyond that, and thrives as a result of an event. An example would be that if you lost a leg to a car accident, and you let that rule your life, then you may have survived, but if you owned it, embraced it, accepted it as a challenge and did not let it define you as a person, you have shown resilience. There’s another important terms here, and it’s the one that causes the first two to be necessary at all: adversity. Adversity is the challenge, the problem that you’re facing. The monster under the bed. The skeleton in the closet. The ghost in the attic. An example would be if (sensitive content warning) your people were facing persecution, the adversity would be the negative attitude towards your people, or the groups acting on this bigotry. These circumstances, horrible as they are, are the thing that allows us to become strong, and one day, ensure that the future generations don’t have to face the same problems.
When all’s said and done, that was honestly a decent post. It summed up everything pretty good, and the pain in my sinuses is gone! Naturally, this post, good, bad, or neutral, ends the same way
*Brofist*