Tuesday, January 27, 2015

The 'knower' is first

From my point of view, having to choose only three ways of knowledge that are present in my daily life is quite difficult. One thing that i truly believe, is that all the ways of knowledge are present in our lives, even though ones are more present than others.

The first way of knowledge that in my opinion is more present in my daily life is faith. As a follower of Jesus, my entire life is based on faith. During my whole life, my parents have brought me to the church every single Sunday, and at one point my thinking was that there was no point in going to the church since it was not my decision. But after years and years of fighting against myself, I started to question everything around me. I questioned what to trust, who to trust, and even why trust, as well as hundreds of questions more.

After years and years of doubt, I started thinking that sometimes we, humans,  believe in things that people tell us without questioning if it is true or false, we simply accept and believe it, and after that I though that it was not honest to give hundreds of opportunities to humans that are imperfect, and commit mistakes every single day, and not give a single opportunity God, to see if what the bible says is real. Therefore nowadays every single day that I wake up I thank God that I am still alive, and that he has a plan for me. Understanding the bible and trusting it, has helped me to see live from a totally and different perspective, which has helped me so much to improve my relation with the people around me and even with myself, but on the other hand  it has disadvantages like for example not be accepted by some individuals of society.

The second way of knowledge that I consider important in my daily life is emotion. My believe is that emotion is a two-sided coin. Sometimes emotion leads us to do good things, but it is also important to know that emotion is also wrong sometimes. The advantage of emotion in my daily life is that it helps me to forgive things without thinking on them too much, but sometimes being led by emotion is not a good thing that can end up in bad consequences, life for example fights, and pointless disputes.

Finally, the way of knowledge that I personally think that nowadays is so important for me is language. Having to learn a new language, and having to study in a language that it is not my mother tongue, has affected me so much. Fist of all I have to say that I can not communicate in English as well as in Spanish, and that sometimes can affect me in a bad way. An example for this is that, even for my tests or my assignments, I struggle so much to communicate what I really want to communicate, which at some point will affect my grades. Besides of that, when it comes to communicate with people, since I live and study in a place where there is cultural variety, it is not always easy to transmit the idea that I really want to transmit. And finally but not less important, every time that I am forced to speak English, I feel like I am betraying myself, because I know that my mother tongue has shaped my identity, and I feel like the person who talks is not the real me but a copy of me. Therefore, language in this situation is two sided. Knowing English, and being able to speak it allows me to communicate with more people, but not being able to communicate in my own language with all the people ,since not all the individuals can speak my language, affects my personality.




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