Thursday, February 27, 2014
2nd Guest Writer: Mr. Maas
I've spent most of my life dealing with Mathematics. One of the things I enjoy about Math is that there is only ONE right answer. Unfortunately, life is not always black and white or right or wrong. There are a lot of grays or maybes. As we get older and more mature, part of our responsibilities are to distinguish good and bad, right and wrong and make the appropriate decisions. That can be a difficult task, but fortunately most of our students make good decisions.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
I agree it can be difficult to make the right decision sometimes. Sometimes there are temptations whether they be from friends or a dare or anything, there will always be a way to prove that you are a good person. As long as you stay true to yourself then you are doing right, if you are acting fake then maybe you are doing the wrong thing.
ReplyDeletePart of me enjoys the fact that life is not black and white because that is how we get such wonderful creations. The grey area consists of the unique, and splendid and beautiful. But the other half of me enjoys the black and white because it means order and teaches us how to make decisions. What we as teenagers have difficulty with is finding a balance between the two.
ReplyDeleteTh gray area kid or resembles places where we haven't exactly figured things out yet, like the cures to diseases. Those are the unanswered, the unknown. It's the unexpected, the outlier. Black and white are strict, straight answers, and those bore me. I like to shake things up with a little bit of gray.
ReplyDeleteIn the terms of right and wrong, the gray area is kind of seen as confusing and bad. It's fence-sitting. I.e. should we allow stem cell research? Right now, that answer is gray to a lot of people.
Wow this really got me thinking. I do think that with some things that there are black and white answers, but because of temptation and sin the color changes to gray. We know right from wrong but we choose to challenge the right answers. I do also agree with Haley, we get beautiful creations from learning from all of the decisions we have to choose between the black and white.
ReplyDeleteThis is an interesting post. I think black and white are the true facts of the world the things that can't be changed, but the gray is like our writing. Writing can be changed it's not always fact and it's manipulated to be the way we want. It's like if a painter mixes an amount of white with a different amount of black to get the perfect shade of gray.
ReplyDeleteI like this post because it 's so true. We look at things as this is the only answer, when the answer could depend on the decision and the situation. We get angry or annoyed with people who we think choose wrong, but did they really choose wrong or was it right in their eyes?
ReplyDeleteMaking decisions takes time. Our lives are filled with decisions, whether it be what to eat or wear, or what classes you should take. Sometimes if you make the wrong decision at the time the universe has a way of telling you that maybe you should rethink that and try again. Decisions pretty much go hand in hand with mistakes. Everyone makes decisions and everyone makes mistakes. It's just how you deal with both that shows true character.
ReplyDeleteThe ocean will always have waves, and we just have to learn to swim through them a little bit longer.
ReplyDeleteIf you don't take a firm stand, you'll be pushed over.
DeleteLife is a learning experience. If you aren't learning, you're not doing it right
ReplyDeleteI agree. However, I can say a lot of us struggle greatly between right and wrong. Life is full of temptations and great tasks and it's hard to do the right thing always. It's gets black & white that way, boring.
ReplyDeleteAs of past experiences and the wisdom that comes with maturity, I view it as more of a billion shades of gray that we face daily rather than black and white. I view the black as the nightmares we can see sometimes, and the white as the dreams that sometimes aren't all that good. It's just a point of view.
ReplyDeleteI have to agree with Mr. Maas. Life is never black and white, and as we grow up, we all find that life is gray; short of the happiness of white but a little on the dark side of black. Morality is what keeps life from being just black and white, and as we mature, we all find a set of morals we stand by and use until the day we die. Gray can essentially describe life in general.
ReplyDeleteLifes decisions definately aren't black and white. You have alot of choices in every situation. There are always good answers, with i lighter grey, and there are not-as-right answers, which are darker grey. It's really all up to you.
ReplyDeletei feel like when we are younger everything is just black and white, but as we grow older the grey area grows larger and larger until it is virtually impossible to tell right from wrong and you are forced to navigate yourself threw based purely on your instincts alone.
ReplyDeleteMost of the time we are colorless and the decisions we make enlighten us with our color palette. We remain gray until we taste a bit of ourselves.
ReplyDeleteSAM, i read your comment wrong. that last word in the last sentence i saw was universe. "We remain gray until we taste a bit of universe." that made my ... you know that gray mushy thing, in between both ears? yeah, that, imploded. but then, i read it right. and my brain, once again suffered damage from implosion. How do taste myself? now, I'll ponder this question in my sleep... but probably not so well... with the significant brain hemorrhages and all...
ReplyDeleteBlack And White are seen everyday. hand in hand, ...why not?. no way of making an excuse for never seeing the pair. and then there's good old gray. yup, he's there sitting among the other black and white a companion, he doesn't have. too bad, for he dearly loves a laugh. and then, there's red, a vehement that color is. he's struggled through... things. White angers him to the point of mellowing, to create pink. don't mistake the hue, she has a treacherous an attitude as red. better way of hiding it, of course. a more appealing and deceiving form of red. orange just can't wait to let the sun in. he is the sun. his attitude has an aftertaste of acid, but not deliberately. try your best to over look that, he's always striving for perfection. yellow is down the corridor and surrounding flowers, making head count like the mother hen she was and still is. orange may strive for that perfection, but sweet, sweet yellow takes no chances. She has never been "tickled pink." Who is immune to her bright, intoxicating sand? White definitely isn't, it's always peaking at another glimmer. does it want a stain of sand? saturated by a beach? blue has this feeling already. a bit mellowed, dreamy, incoherent he is most days. He babbles about the cotton candy he'd consumed, the trouble with stitching together a hole in jeans, and leans back in his wheelchair. he is a humbled fellow. the mention, however, of the deeper blues, the down-trodden blues, the beat down blues, is enough to shut his vault of experience for days. near his residence, green floats. he chooses to float. float on, and travel throughout he veins of everything. this color has been surrounded by every other one. Content? we don't know, he never speaks. down, down, down the hall, purple lies. Jaded and unwilling to leave the bed. Unwilling to shake hands. her bad reputation is most likely what tackles her self-esteem. the thing you think of at Halloween? a Haunted House? a sinister color? the color of the sky when wolves cry? Could anyone else understand her guilt? it harms blue to see her this way. they had been formerly so close.
ReplyDeleteThough most see gray, i do not think i could assuage these colors.
I love this post. To me everyone is different and they all have different answers that they have to find. Most people would judge people for that,but really every one is just trying to find there answers in one way or another.
ReplyDeleteEveryone in the world makes mistakes, but that is how we learn. We learn the right and wrong by each mistake we make. Consequences are our life teachers
ReplyDeleteWhen we are young, we are naive and think the world is all black and white. That there is right and wrong and that is not the case when we begin to grow up and become mature adults. We realise the world is harsher and cruel to us when we grow up, but as kids we are protected from the dangers of the outside world. When we discover the truth about the world when we are older it is our responsibility to choose what we do with that knowledge.
ReplyDeleteIf everything was just black and white, how would we really call ourselves human? Primarilly because the mistakes we make not only teach us what to do and what not to do, but those mistakes help us connect and relate to others
ReplyDeleteIt depends on how you were raised and where you were raised, if your family is struggling they will do anything to help themselves get out of that struggle. A person from the suburbs good decisions can be very different than a person from the city. Due to the city being filled with violence, gangs, and all around bad decisions everywhere. Good and bad in things may vary.
ReplyDeleteEach persons definition of good/ bad differ vastly from person to person. Morals come from life experience. Religion, where you were raised, how you were raised, the rules where you were raised, can all have contributed to how you see things, and if you categorize them as bad or good. What's good to me might be a sin to you or the other way around
ReplyDelete