To sum it up
So far in this honors class we have been focusing on beauty and what it really is. We have read articles, read speeches, and watched videos on a variety of topics such as math and sports. Overall I think the main thing that stuck out to me was the different ways people think, they way each individual thinks. That is why I believe that perspective is definitely one of the main themes.
Many of us come from different ways of life which is the main reason, in my opinion, that many of us disagree with each other. During the discussion we had on sports for instance some opinions varies completely from own personal thoughts. While I understand that it would be difficult for people who had never played sports to find them beautiful I still find it hard to comprehend how they wouldn’t be. This is because I have grown up with sports all of my life so my perspective on them is completely different from that of a person who would perhaps rather cook, or something. Another article that we read where perspectives differed greatly was “liking what you see.” In this article they talked about something called Cali. Cali is a treatment of sorts that prevents people from seeing what is and isn’t beautiful. Some people thought that Cali would be a positive thing because not only would there be less judgement but they also thought that it would help people to mature. I disagree with that because I believe that by having Cali you would be just avoiding the subject and maturing at all.
There were many more circumstances that have arisen in class where perspective was a big deal too, but those are the main ones I could think of. Overall I think that we have learned much more about perspective than beauty in my opinion. We have see how people views on different subjects can very so much from our own views, and by seeing that I believe that we are better learning how to communicate with people who have opinions very different from our own.