"True happiness... arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self"- Joseph Addison
Well like I always say in each Mindfulness Monday entry, "it's good to be back in diving deep into the meaning of quotes. Recently I have been busy trying to get a project done for a class which would deprive me into doing Mindfulness Mondays, but I'm finally back and I will try to find time to do them as best as I can. Well, enough of that lets jump right into the quote of today. When I first read this quote I felt it wasn't inspirational like the previous ones I have done in the past. The reason why I say this because of the way how I felt the quote meant. I feel it doesn't provide anything motivational or inspirational, but rather a feeling that brought comfort. You may ask yourself "comfort?", but the reason why I say this is because the experiences I had in the past since when I started to attend high school. To put it simply, my past experiences have an influence on the interpretation of this quote's meaning. I interpreted this quote as basically meaning that once you have found happiness within yourself, it could augment when you find that happiness with others. I understand that there are going to be some people that will disagree with my interpretation, but to back up with my statement is that within the quote it has the words "...arises, in the first place..." which I took as the beginning to something greater. Since this quote is revealing how true happiness is created and when it seems to reveal that it can only seem to be found only when you find it within yourself. This was the way how I began to see the quote because I found my true happiness when began to get into school a lot more it led to me meeting my friends which are the people who helped augment my true happiness. My true happiness was helping others when they are in need and especially when they are going through some rough times. This happiness was discovered within myself in that I always had an urge to help even within myself when it came down to change things in my character that I did not like. Eventually, it led to me helping others and now I feel grateful and happy every time I do so and the thing that makes me happy the most is seeing the people I helped I helped and smile. I hope that people understand my interpretation, but now its time to connect this quote with the IB Learner profile. Looking at the IB Profile, the only components that this quote is associated with is caring, knowledgeable, and reflective. The reason why I feel that caring is associated with the quote is that when the true happiness is discovered you begin to care about it by the fact that you would do anything to not let it be destroyed when things seem not to go your way. Like I said previously, the happiness is augmented with the help of others who share the same happiness and care dearly to keep it growing or from having it extinguished, but this will lead to them caring about your well-being. To move on, this quote is associated with knowledgeable in that you begin to know about your true feelings when you first find true happiness. To clarify, once true happiness is found you begin to dive deep in all things that you have down and try figure out what emotions you get out of them and eventually it expands to how it makes other people feel. Lastly, this quote is associated with reflective in that once true happiness is found you begin to reflect how it was found and how it could influence you in a certain way. Every time you discover something or observe a change in your life you begin to reflect how it will affect you later on and with happiness, you will reflect how discovering its true form will affect you and at times others later on in life. As a reminder, everything that we do has an impact on our lives and its these things are what influences us to be who we are when we reflect upon finding the truth behind things in life. Well, that will be the end of this entry and I'll admit this quote was a bit different and difficult to analyze in the same way as the inspirational ones. I tried the best that I could to give the interpretation of this quote and I hope you will be able to understand it. Until the next time.
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" I don't even know if there is such a thing as justice in the shinobi world. We fight believing in our own justice. But if the enemy is doing the same, who's right?"- Shisui Uchiha
It has truly been a while since I have done a Mindfulness Mondays and the funny thing is that today is Sunday. I guess today will be a special Mindfulness Monday Sunday edition and to let you guys this quote that this quote I did not get from Google, but rather I found it in one of my social media and it has to do with anime so let us hop to it. Like I said this quote is in connection with one of my favorite anime's of all time and on top of that this quote was said by one of my favorite characters in the anime. You guys are probably wondering what this is and to answers your question, this anime that this quote is connected to is Naruto Shippuden. This anime taught many great morals and I'll admit it also influenced how I see the world today. Before I proceed I'll provide a small summary of what this anime is about. To put it simply this anime is about a character name Naruto who grew up without parents and all the people in his village, the Hidden Leaf, hated him due to him having a nine-tailed fox inside him. His goal throughout the whole anime is to become the Hokage, the leader of the village, in order for everyone in the village to acknowledge him. His journey in becoming the Hokage isn't easy as he fights enemies stronger than him who are after his fox inside him. Other than that, the enemies always tell to give up his friends, his dreams, and his path, but as the protagonist, he doesn't and proves them wrong and also changes the enemies heart. After so many battles, he accomplishes his dream and the anime comes to an end. Again this anime is one of my favorites, but now it's time to analyze the quote. So the person who says the quote is Shisui Uchiha who is my favorite character and also very wise when it comes to the morals of the world. When I came across his quote, I was truly shocked and curious about its meaning. This quote truly changes how I perceive the word "justice" and I began to think deeply about what has happened in the past and the present and I was truly shocked in the sense that I began to feel a weird feeling that I could describe. What he basically meant that in his world there is no such thing as "true justice" because everyone in the world has their own justice in which they believe is true while others think the opposite. The more and more I thought about it, the more and more it made sense in the real world. I came to the conclusion that this quote also applied to the real world because there have been incidents where people do horrific things because they believe it is right and what they did is their definition of justice. Everyone would simply disagree with the person who has done harm to achieve their justice, but once they learn the reason behind their actions they begin to question their judgment. This was exactly what I began to do and at first, it was a bit scary to think this way, but the more I thought about the more I understood how life works. I'm glad that I came across this quote and I hope you guys also are glad because quotes like these can help you get a better understanding of how life works and how the real world operates. The last thing that it helps with is that everyone has their own version of justice which leads to the question of what exactly is justice and how far can it go before it's perceived as evil or good? Like every other quote that I have done in the past, it's time to connect this quote with the IB Learner Profile. While writing this whole Mindfulness Monday analysis, the parts that seem to call out to me are knowledgeable, reflective, thinkers, and open-minded. To begin, the reason why I saw this quote is associated with knowledgeable is because we are learning something that is worth learning and gives insight on how the world operates. This will then connect to being a thinker because once you read the quote, you will certainly will be thinking very hard towards what the quote is trying to convey. Then the quote will associate with being open-minded and reflective because you will think hard about everything you do along what other people do and you will begin to accept what others do. Not only that you will also become reflective when figuring what justice means and eventually you will begin to reflect upon what all the people who have been on the news for what they have done and you will begin to question if what they did was out the belief that they were simply doing to acquire justice. As a side note, this thinking process that the quote has made you do doesn't have to only apply to justice, but it could be applied to anything that people tend to perceive differently. Well this quote, I have to say, has truly moved me and change the way how I see and define the term justice and I wonder if it has done the same to you. Until the next Mindfulness Monday. |
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