Aug 19 - Everyone has burning questions about life. Mysteries we wonder about but don’t always have clear answers for. Think about your biggest questions about existence, purpose, or the world around you. Write a blog post where you share at least two of your most burning questions about life and explain why these questions matter to you.


Response: A question that I have been asking myself since I was little is, "Where do we go when we die?" Others around me would always say we go to heaven when we die, but I found that hard to believe with no evidence of heaven existing. I've grown up Catholic all of my life, still am (sort of), but I've always had my doubts about if heaven is real or not. Ever since I was around 8 years old in my 2nd-grade classroom, my mind has always thought that life ends after you die, and it is just nothingness forever, which is terrifying to think of. I don't want this to be how it is when you die. I hope that when we die, there is some kind of life afterwards, whether it's reincarnation or heaven. Another question I've had is, "Who is God and is he even real?" I like to believe and have faith that there is some higher power in this universe. Our world was made in such specific conditions and settings to create life on Earth that if even one of those conditions were off by just a slight amount, life couldn't exist. This fact can't be a coincidence and I believe some higher power definitely created the universe. I'm still questioning who this higher power may be and hope to find out one day.

Summary: Today, we went over cultural identity in poems. We read "I, too" by Langston Hugues and are now analyzing different parts of the poem.

Reflection: The universe works in such mysterious ways just like the way of life does too. We don't know much about this world, but it's nice to have theories and beliefs to make sense of this world.

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