This week we have been going over putting our "This I Believe" essays together into videos. We have recorded them and are currently working on editing them into the masterpieces we desire. This is a really cool project that has some value because it helps us find certain parts of ourselves we may not have found yet. It also helps us explain ourselves to each other. Perhaps there are some details about some people that a lot of people don't know, well this project will help them figure that out.
The part of this project I'm struggling with is finding something I actually want to commit to speaking about. I had an initial idea but now I'm having second thoughts. I had originally decided about how the most important quality of the things you do is that they represent yourself. Someone will almost always be better, smarter, faster, or stronger, but they can't be better than you at being you. There's a Kanye West quote that goes something like that. This is my main idea thus far and I like the idea, I just find it hard to talk about it without getting corny or sounding too cliche. However, I think not sounding cliche is an unrealistic goal due to the fact that a lot of people have lived and explained their lives before I have. It's very difficult to sound original when explaining something of this nature.
After going through all this, a question I have is, is it ever possible to explain the things you believe or, main ideas of them, without at least some of them overlapping with the way someone else believes? I don't necessarily think this is an absolutely terrible thing, but I also wish I could be original when I'm not sure I can. Hopefully this is something I can overcome.