blog 4.3

 If I put myself on Andromache and Creusa’s shoes, I know I would do the same thing. I always want my love ones to be with me. I don’t want to be alone, to be left. I would even beg for them so that they won’t leave me. I just want them to be safe and to be with me. I am showing my love and how much I care for them. Just like Andromache when she pleads to Hector and Creusa to Aeneas. They’ve shown that they don’t want them to be hurt and the love they have for their husband. Unlike Creusa, Andromache wasn’t able to beg her husband. This part shows the differences between Creusa and Andromache and also Aeneas and Hector.

blog 2

There will be a time that each and every one of us would seek for someone for a true love --- love for another person.

We don't want want to get hurt by the people we love,so we trust them. But it is not easy to accept when a certain situation is to be happening. Like when your partner in life needs to go away from you for a certain reason which he or she doesn't like, or simply forced to.

Well, it is like the story of Andromache and Creusa, pleading their own husbands to stay home to be safe for not them to go to the war and die. But their endings are different, Andromache wasn't killed but Creusa was killed. This is a strong proof that they love their husbands so much, pleading or pleasing them to stay home.

blog 4,1

It is an agony to oneself to see his/her mother land fall into pieces and you can't do anything to save it. It is hard to think that your home would be just embedded to your memories and will be soon forgotten. Just thinking of this can turn me into a crazy person, i think many of us would be, but Aeneas will surely be not .

Aeneas faced the fall of Troy bravely. He suffered a great loss but he learned to let go of it and moved on to his life, I admired him for this. He did not become emotional like anybody would be. From all of the things that happened to Troy, I was so depressed. I felt sympathy to them. Why? It's because it was unfair for the people of Troy. They don't even know that this was part of the plan of the Greeks. They were not ready for it. The city was in chaos. Aeneas luckily escaped from the Greeks but ironically, he was unlucky for the place where he live for such a long time was ruined.

Enigmatic smile?

If you have been puzzled by Mona Lisa's smile – how she's radiant one moment and serious the next instant – then your worries are over. It happens because our eyes are sending mixed signals to the brain about her smile.

I don't really see her beautiful or eye catchy, but she is really mysterious. For me, there is nothing really special with the painting except for her smile. It is like a single smile with a thousand expressions.  In a glance you will see her beautiful smile, but when you look again you will see her smiling like an antagonist in an actin movie. Creepy right? 

For me, her smile is just an ordinary smile. A smile that can be made and given by any person. Mona Lisa's smile was just overrated throughout the years that really made it alluring. Let's just be happy for Da Vinci because he made a magnificent painting.

Abraham Lincoln

Once I had a dream, and I will never forget that dream. It was star-less that night. the wind breeze gave me chills in my spine. I walked in a fast paced manner, not minding if I hit other people as I walked along the street.

Then a man from my back stopped me from walking and said "You seemed to be in a hurry. You bumped different people but you don't care."

I was about to just ignore him, then I saw his face. I stared at his familiar face for a few seconds than I realized that he was Abraham Lincoln. I said sorry and he invited me to have coffee with him.

He asked my why I acted that way in the street and I answered "Because I felt bad about everything in my life."

Then he said "Have you done anything bad? Because if not, you don't have the right to be sad. You know I follow this rule: When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That is my religion.” ". I stopped drinking my coffee and thought for a while. He was right. If I did not do anything bad, why I should feel bad?.

I said "You're right. But others are making me feel so bad. What will I do?"

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedom, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. Just like you, son, you will never be destroyed by what others say to you. So don't feel bad.", he answered. He was right.

Then I woke up smiling and faced the world with a strong will and a happy heart. The lifelong  impact of that lesson could not have been any better for me.