The '10' List 7

10 Verbal Photographs

1. I read an excerpt in another class on the prerequisites to marriage and it got me thinking of the divorce rate. Imagine if they just made a world where marriage is not even an option. John Lennon’s song would be complete, no religion, hate, or marriage.
2. The Nobel Peace Prize compromises of only a few select genres, but omit an important aspect of everybody’s life, music. How great would it be to have a prize for music?
3. I walked outside one day and it was a hazy, eerie musk that is brought on by the Michigan weather. It was saddening to the point that it presented itself as a type of beauty. The sun was just coming up and irradiating through the gray of the clouds and making the droplets from the musty fog shine like little diamonds.
4. I had a dream that I was in a world just like Alice in Wonderland, but all the characters were opposite of their usual anthropomorphic self. Each character was an insane human and possessed animal like qualities.
5. Vision that you’re walking through the woods on a summer day with a sense of euphoria. Not one that is distributed through a type of narcotic, but just that feeling strikes you when you’re destined to have a wonderful day. You’re looking at the trees, the plants, the animals, and the colors of the woods, enjoying every increment it has to possess in it’s sublime wonder, but then all of a sudden something detrimental happens. You are walking and all of a sudden you develop a sense of monochromatic sight, you can only see blue. Now you perceive life in only blue shades and colors.
6. A billboard read on the road: Is it to late to start your education? This reminded me of the pursuit people have of grasping life and living it to the fullest. More people should do that.
7. When people play the guitar in blues videos, almost all of them make facial expression that shows they are not only playing the guitar, but living every single note. It’s riveting to watch in all forms.
8. Walking along the train tracks in the dark is invigorating because you feel like you’re on a never-ending road, like you could follow this until the end of your life. Just arriving at the beginning again.
9. On a cheesy comedy movie they stated, “Is you take life to seriously, you will never get out alive.” I found this to be a rather odd quote because it reminded me of people, this is including my family, who repeatedly get breaks and ruin them, whether it be a good education opportunity or well paying job.
10. I once imagined that the cat from Alice in Wonderland was a common housecat and that it disappeared and reappeared before my very eyes. It was quite creepy, yet entertaining.


10 Treasures

1. “There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.” -Thomas Jefferson
2. “Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.” -Chinese Proverb
3. “Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.” -T.S Eliot
4. “Humankind cannot bear very much reality.” -T.S Eliot
5. “London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.” -Oscar Wilde
6. “People talking without speaking, People hearing without listening.” -Paul Simon
7. “Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.” -Revelation 2:10
8. “This city is full of sleep walkers.” -Guy Maddin
9. “What if? What if?” -Guy Maddin
10. “The Forks, The Lap, The Forks, The Lap.” -Guy Maddin

The theme of the 10 verbal photographs that I explored was mostly of the beauty in confusion theme. I have always found some kind of wonder in the idea of confusion; it keeps you on yours heels. Confusion, to most individuals, can leave an intolerable feeling in the pit of one’s stomach, but I feel different. When I find confusion, I also find a want to complete. As I have said before, I find the experience of life and the act of pursuing your dreams as an enticing event. Coincidentally, many people seem to feel the same way from literary scholars to musicians. I have used some Alice in wonderland quotes because they relay to a part of the brain that many people ignore, your sense of exploration both physically and mentally. I also thought that description of nature and the marriage quotes fit really well in the idea of forming life. Life can get away from you if you do not live it correctly, or how you want to live it. That is why you shouldn’t take life to seriously because you will never get out alive.
My treasures are based more on the idea of knowledge any experience with love and life. Guy Maddin brings up many internal goals that he has learned thorugh his own experience. He has developed the knowledge to feel comfort in his own mind, which many people seem to feel a void in. The Chinese proverb exaplins that teacher open the doorway for students to experience and that’s thorugh living life. They need to set out and find their way like others have in life. Guy Maddin did the same way, he had a sense of adventure and wanted to leave the city, so he works at trying to leave, but has to figure some life issues out first. Paul Simon declares in a song lyric that many people talk without specking and hear without listening, which reminds me of people just being oblvious to what they could achieve. People need to set out and notice the little discrepancies that they have and just overcome them. Life can be a lot more satisfying if people strive for what they believe in.