Reflection #7

Part 1:

After completing the two meditation exercises, I felt much more in tune with myself. I was very aware of my breathing, my surroundings, and my feelings during and after meditating. It allowed me to forget my stress and responsibility in life for just a quick moment and to fully relax. I would definitely consider doing these meditations somewhat regularly. It doesn't take long, and afterwards there's a sense of rejuvenation. Especially with March and April being such busy months, I really should try to make time for meditating. I would be able to focus more on everything that needs to be done and really clear my mind of distractions. After the superhero meditation, I had similar feelings as the first, but I felt more creative. For me, imagining colors and sounds gave me a new-found sense of creativity. I love to scrapbook and make little crafts, but sometimes I just have no idea where to start. I'd do this one again in the future when I arrive at a roadblock in my creativity. It helped open another side of my mind.

Part 2:

I for sure have utilitarian friendships and pleasure friendships. Some of my pleasure friendships are growing closer to virtue. I have people I care so much about, but I don't always think of them first. I have a boyfriend of 1.5 years and I love him like crazy! My relationship with him would be the closest thing I have to a friendship of virtue. He goes to school in MN and even when we're both at home, we're still three hours apart. Since we're long distance, not everything I do is for him. Even if he went to school here, I still wouldn't be doing everything I do for him. I would've still been apart of HAIRSPRAY if he was here and that definitely wouldn't be because I thought it was in his best interest. I wanted to do it just for fun. But as we get older and grow more together, I believe it could turn into a friendship of virtue. We're both just too young and too far apart for that now.

Reflection #6

         I had a pretty awesome childhood. My sister and I played tons of the usual girly games like house and Polly Pockets (we preferred them to Barbies), but we also played pirates on our swing set in the back yard and played with our Hot Wheels as well. We'd set up tracks all around our kitchen. Why the kitchen? Because you could make your track go around so many things and have a ton different levels to your race. My sister and I got very creative with our games. We'd even mix our toys together and put our Polly Pockets in our Hot Wheel convertibles (If they fell out, you lost). Our Dad always got in on the fun to. He made the best tracks. He'd start them super high up and put loops in the tracks and have them race all over the kitchen. It was some of the best memories of my childhood.

         I've had to tap into my creative side a few times since then. I was heavily involved in theatre  in high school and we always had to think very creatively as to how things would work. We were working on High School Musical over the summer and the girl who played Sharpay had a very quick costume change that she was always missing. We all sat there trying to figure out ways to do it easier and make it faster. We brought everything she needed out of the dressing room so she could just change back stage, but that still took too long. Finally, I came up with an amazing solution. We hung up her clothes on the back of a set piece and she did the costume change right on stage. That cut out walking time which is exactly what was messing us up. The crew member that brought on the wall helped her change. It was perfect. She'd step out from behind the wall right before the spotlight shown on her. The audience was amazed every single time she did that costume change.

        In Earth 1, there is a part where Superman get trapped under this red energy beam and he can't get out. It's almost crushing him. Jimmy Olsen tries to go in and help him, but if the beam is crushing Superman, it's definitely going to crush Jimmy so that doesn't work, though the thought was nice. The Lois Lane notices a near by truck and drives it into the beam, Superman grabs the chain attached to it, and they pull him out. It didn't take too long for Lois to realize was to do. She thought on her feet and saved the day for Superman. Without her creativity, who knows what could have happened to Superman...