My thoughts on Justice

                My thoughts on justice are probably the normal thoughts on it.  I believe that justice is the law based off of three ideas:  authority, peer pressure, and tradition.  These three ideas are the main factors of deciding what is right and what is wrong.  Justice is the concept of deciding what is correct in life.   Everyone has a different sense of justice and live by their own rules.  In my opinion there is no real idea as to what is right and what is wrong unless that idea cannot be supported by sensible thoughts.  Everyone has their own ways and so there is no telling what is right and what is wrong, instead we believe there are states of normality due to the three concepts mentioned above. 
                People base justice on what they are told from higher authorities.  Examples can be found anywhere, like if a child is raised by his parents who tell him to eat with a fork, to a child who is told to eat with chopsticks, to a child who is told to eat with his or her hands.  Each child will consider eating the way they were taught to be correct.  This type of justice does not only take place in the household, but in the governments as well.  High authority leaders will makes rules that people have to follow.  This is justice because if they don’t follow the rules they will be punished.  Authority has one of the hardest effects on justice because what you are taught or forced to do becomes second nature and it is hard to change from that.

                Another factor on what is right versus what is wrong is peer pressure.  This can be shown by a democracy.  Whatever everyone does is what is correct.  This way does not develop a second nature as much, but instead defines normality in most people’s minds.  To me there is no normal, but instead a unity.  Everyone has their own ways and I believe that no one knows for sure what normal is.  Someone who does something differently could be doing it correctly, we will never know what true normality is.  In most cases, peer pressure is bad because people do what they don’t want to do just to fit in.  This is probably the worst form of justice that there is due to the fact that it is not backed up by logical reason. 

what do i believe about truth?

          Being truthful is one of the greatest things that a person can be.  However almost no one is completely truthful.  Today’s topic is to discuss what I believe about truth.  In my opinion, truth is giving all the real information that you know about an event.  You don’t leave anything out and describe it the exact way your eyes saw it happen.  People tend to change the reality of something to make it seem like they are great, and this is used everyday, from small things like a stolen pair of shoes, to greater things like a killing.  When someone actually does tell the truth, that person establishes a great reputation and people can believe him or her.  Like the story of the boy who cried wolf, eventually a liar will be completely unbelievable even when he is telling the truth. 
                Everyone loves to be told the truth.  It makes them feel good even if the truth hurts.  Just to know what really happened or what you really look like, you are comforted rather than anxious.  Telling the truth rather than telling a lie will always have a much better turn out. 
                Truth is probably the best thing that you could have because people who get great amounts of respect toward and trustworthiness never lie.  One lie can bring that person to lie more times, thus soiling his truthful record.   People who are honest around me are probably the ones that  have the most respect for.  I try to be honest, but it is hard because I have lied before.  To me, honesty is the best thing that you can be. 
                If you think of a person you know that is completely honest, you must have a big amount of respect for that person.it is very hard to be honest, but some people do it so it is not impossible.

How do I Connect to Others?

                Throughout high school, social life is very important.  Too keep up with a good social life, you need to have good connections with friends.  If you can’t connect, you will not be able to do anything with your life.  Connecting with others is the only way that you will be happy.  Today, connecting is very easy due to the advancing technology.  I connect with others by using Facebook, but if I have to contact someone quickly, I will call or text them with my phone.  Connections are one of the most important things in my life.  I can stay close with friends who have moved and I can also become closer with people that I meet.  If I meet someone and have no way of contacting them, I will not become close to them.  We will never talk and eventually will forget about each other.  If I can contact them however, I will be able to invite them to hang out.  This way we will become friends. 
                Communications have advanced so much.  Before, we would have to write letters and wouldn’t get a reply for like a week or so.  Today we can contact immediately and even talk face to face in different locations.  This is a huge improvement in social lives.  People are much more social than they were before.  There are now more events that more people go to.   I always get messages and go to parties or just to someone’s house.  Not only are communications important in social lives, but they also may save your life if you are in a life threatening situation like a car accident.    
                Better connections have disadvantages though.  Advertisements that contain spam or viruses are always sent to you and it can get annoying.  Another major disadvantage is anything that you send by message online will get around no matter what.  That is why when I message people I always keep important things out of it.  Cyber bullying is one of the worst types of bullying and this is why communications now a days are dangerous.  Some people may even kill themselves due to cyber bullying. 
               The ways I communicate include Facebook, texting, and Kakao talk.  These are all ways I communicate to people who are not around my area.  However when I am with my friends we communicate by talking.  This is the basic ways that people communicate.  Most people today use social networking.   There are many other ways that I communicate.  For example to say yes I nod my head and to say no I shake it.   I use hand signals to people who can’t hear very well, and I also will occasionally use face expressions to show what I am feeling.          
                 There are many different ways that I communicate to others.  These are very important to me because they can keep my social life good.   If I was not able to immediately contact others, I would not be very happy with my life socially.  If we did not have the technology that we have today it would be much harder to get around.  We would have to drive to people’s houses just to have a conversation.  If you did not know the homework for a certain day, you would be basically screwed.  Communication with body signals is also important so people will know what emotion you are feeling.   If someone is mad at me, or I am mad at someone, but don’t want to say it straight up, we use body signals to show it.  These are important in knowing what someone feels about something, whether related to you or to another subject.  Communication is probably the most important thing in my social life.

is it Better to Live in a Certain Place, or to Always Move to New Ones?

            Many people face moving to a new location in their life and have to struggle with the move, however there can be great things to moving to a new place.  The topic for today is “is it better to live in one city or town than move from one place to another?”  My opinion is even on both sides.  By moving, you experience new thing and meet more people, but you can also lose your hometown, or old friends, and you may not even fit into the new place that you move to.  Moving can be a rough experience and I am glad that I have never had to go through it before.  However I always wonder what it would be like to like somewhere else for a change. 
              The pros of moving from place to place is that you meet new people, get to have new experiences and can forget you old home, if you didn’t like it.  By meeting new people, you make twice the number of friends.  One half from you old town and the other from the new town.  This way, you become a person of many friends.  Getting to live in a new place may also be the key to finding a person that you have true love for and would be willing to spend your whole life with.  Moving from place to place also gives you new experiences.  You can try new things, can be introduced to a new environment, or even get used to a much larger school.   The excitement of all these new things can be overwhelming though and may make you nervous.  People may not like you or you may not like the new ways of life.  This can lead to a horrible moving experience and you may never want to do it again.  However another great thing about being nomadic is that if your last living area was not right for you, you can start off as a new person.   
             While moving can seem fun and exciting, there are also down sides to it.  What if you are a person who can’t make friends, or what if you had a strong connection to the place that you came?  These can lead to a new life of misery.  Leaving you old town may include leaving best friends, a girlfriend, or even family.  If you had a strong connection to the past, you may not want to move, but you must realize that you will still have connections, and that you are not giving others an opportunity to try and be your friends.  Again you may find the new place to be satisfying.  New environments can be disastrous because if you don’t fit in, you will lead a miserable life.   Whether it is something like climate, to another thing like people, you just never know what you may find.   You could really enjoy it, or you could dislike it greatly.  Moving fro place to place is also very money consuming.  You have to find a new place to live, apply to new schools, learn the new landscape and city, and other money and time consuming things.  Moving can be very hard for the people or person moving and may cause stress and grumpiness.  
              Although I have never moved from my home island, I think it would be a great experience to do so.  I would get to know different living conditions and make a lot of new friends.  Although I already have a great life on this tiny island, I want to experience more and thus think moving from place to place would be a bit more exciting than staying in one place for your whole adolescence life. 

10 Quotes That I Live By

That I Live By       There are many codes, phrases or beliefs that all people believe in.  Everyone may have different beliefs but they all mean something.  Ten phrases that I live by include:
          1)      Be yourself
          2)      Live every day like it would be your last
          3)      Be willing to take reasonable risks
          4)      Respect others as you would want to be respected
          5)      Be humble
          6)      Realize that you have a great life
          7)      Keep calm
          8)      Know that there can be worse things in the world
          9)      Actions speak louder than words
          10)   You only live once (yes you may think this is too mainstream but it does have a strong meaning)
          All of these phrases are important to me and I use them throughout my life.  They make me a better person and give me inspiration to do things. 
         The first phrase is “be yourself.”  This is probably the most important phrase to me because being yourself is the best thing you can do.  You will always have people that don’t agree with you, but that doesn’t mean that you should change your ways, ignore them and live like you want to.
          The second phrase is “Live every day like it would be your last.”  Honestly, we never know when we are going to die or what may happen tomorrow.  You may die or become disabled in an accident that you will not even know about and so to make sure you live a good life, do things like they would be your last actions.
         The third phrase is “be willing to take reasonable risks.”  This one ties in with the last one because you never know what will happen to you in the future, so if you have a risk to take, think it over and decide if you want to take it or not.
          The fourth and fifth phrases tie together also.  “Respect others and be humble.”  Respecting others is important because you have to realize that they have feeling too and may be more emotional than you are.  Being humble is another important thing because it will also help give yourself a good view by others. 
         Phrase number six is to “realize that you have a great life.”  Compared to many other people in the world, your life is like a heaven.  You should grasp this and hole it dear to you.   Don’t complain as much because people would kill to have a life like yours. 
          The seventh phrase is “keep calm.”  This is another good looking trait.  No matter what the situation may be, you should keep calm because there is always a way out and it is not the end of the world, just think. 
         "Knowing that there are worst things in the world,” or phrase number eight can help you get through life more easily.  When you are mad, sad, embarrassed, or feel like your life is over, you must realize that others face much worse problems in the world.  For example their family could have just been murdered while you complain about not being able to go to a big party.
          Phrase nine basically means that instead of talking about things, you should do them.  You should also never lie or over exaggerate. 
          The final phrase is you only live once, or YOLO and is very common in the modern generation.  Think about the phrase.  It is true that you only live once and so you want to make good things out of that life.  This phrase can tie all the other phrases together. 
          Although there are many different phrases and beliefs that people follow, you should always respect your own and take them seriously.  I always think of my phrases when times seem rough.  These phrases get me through life.

Definition of Happiness

          Different people in the world have different senses of happiness.  Some people get happiness out of an object such as food, or a toy, while others can be much different and instead get happiness out of others pain.  There are many different kinds of happiness that fill many different peoples’ minds.  My version of happiness is hard to come by.  This is due to the fact that I would not consider my family in a lower class, so compared to many other people, would consider myself spoiled.  For example, for me to be happy, I would need a sense of eagerness for the future, a relaxed time of a cool beach, and many presents, when other people would be just as happy or even happier to have a family.  Hamburgers make me happy.  However I think the happiest moment of my life would be with the person that makes me happy, whether it is a friend or a lover.  If I am alone, I can only be happy if I receive something, and still, that something is given by someone else.  However, when I am with friends or loved ones, I am always happy.  These people make me laugh, treat me well, and we always have a good time.  To be happy requires a great environment with great people.
                Happiness is one of the greatest feeling that living things can have.  Too much happiness can lead to spoiling someone so happiness has to be controlled or else it can turn evil.  Although it is a dangerous trait, it can be balanced with bad things, and this is why there is evil in the world, to balance the happiness sort of like ying and yang and the idea of Daoism.  As I have said before, many people have different feelings of happiness.  Our lives are like roller coasters, when something bad happens, a good thing follows.  I believe in this because it always happens to me.  Let’s say I score a high score on a video game.  This sense of joy is countered by getting a bad grade on a test.  I do have many instances of unhappiness, but to help me deal with these times I will realize that I have a good life compared to many others in the world.  By doing so, I could consider myself as happy all the time, just to know that I have a great life compared to the average.     
 

What Book Has Benefitted me the Most and How?

                One book that has benefitted me the most was Night, by Elie Wiesel.  This book is based on a true story of a Jew during the time of the Holocaust and what life was like.  Unlike many other books I have read, Night gave me a deep emotional feeling by living the life of a Jew in a concentration camp through a book.  The main thing that always hit me while I was reading it was that all of the stories in the book were true.  How did this book benefit me?  Well first of all, it made me realize that I have a wonderful life and that I should be thankful for every minute of it.  I have always heard of horrible lives, but actually living a life of depression, death, and fear imprinted itself into my mind. There were many instances that seemed unbearable to live in, and at many of those times I would realize that this is true story and how my life seems like heaven compared to it.  By giving me this realistic sense, I always stop and remember the book of Elie Wiesel’s story whenever I am depressed or angry and this helps me overcome my problems.  Knowing that my life can be considered heaven, I become very grateful and humble. 
                The main thing that Night has done for me was to make me much more humble.  I will realize how good my life is and how great of a place I live in.  This new view on thoughts about my life will reduce me from complaining about things.  In turn, this help me become a much better person and people will like me much more.  My relationship with my parents improved due to this book.  I realize that I am lucky to even have parents and so I really take them dear to heart.  I will respect them and never get mad at them because I imagine what life would be like without them and it doesn’t seem possible.   I feel like I wouldn’t be able to live if my parents died, but many people in Night did.
                Watching loved ones die right before your eyes is insane.  I would never be able to live on if that has happened to me.  However Elie Wiesel watched thousands of his fellow Jews murdered, slowly die from lack of nutrients, gasses to death, and even burned to falling ashes on his head.  When Wiesel explains his long hike to another camp with many of the other prisoners, he explains how some prisoners fell over from excessive cold or lack of any more energy in their body.  The rest were forced to leave the people to die slowly.  This helps me because whenever I am playing a sport and become tired, I look back on the book which gives me a huge burst of power, knowing that this weakening feeling in me cannot even be closely compared to that of Elie Wiesel and his companions.
                The book Night, by Elie Wiesel has benefitted me the most out of all the other books that I have read because it gives me a new view on how life is and how much more grateful I should be living in the life I have.  I should be grateful for everything and when I complain about something, I should realize that it is not that bad and how much worse it could be.  Elie Wiesel suffered greatly and I know that every second of my life should be filled with thanks and respect.  The book Night has changed my whole mind set.