As far as content goes this week, it has been mostly "This I Believe". The main topic of discussion has been the concept of writing and performing our speeches and making videos to go along with them. To me, this has been a rather difficult unit because I'm having a hard time trying to decide what I want to write my speech on. There are a lot of things I believe and I don't know if I could pick just one to write about to explain my beliefs properly. I think the problem is that I'm afraid of sounding corny. The problem is that I can't get very into anything I come up with. I think that's just because I don't have the right idea yet. I wonder what it'll take for me to get the right idea. I'm thinking I'll come up with something but of course it'll be later than I had hoped. Although all that matters is that I come up with something I believe in. I need my topic to be something I can stand behind and stick up for when people are arguing against it.
The majority of people's talks are going to be about how they worked hard or some life lesson they learned that relates to working hard and their path to success. To me, that's something anyone can write about no matter how genuine it actually is. Most people writing about things like that really don't know if it actually changed their life, they just either want something to write about, or they don't know what to believe in terms of what got them where they are. I really want to avoid this, and perhaps my analysis of the situation is a little bit wayward of accurate, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to. I've been really busy lately and am having trouble keeping up on sleep so maybe my brain is just being lazy.
I think this could be a really helpful unit as long as I'm able to put my complete effort into it. I could make some very good personal discoveries and share those with all of my classmates. Perhaps my ideas that I share will help them on their path in life. As long as I put my best effort forward, this unit will help me a lot.