mell scrie:
29.Describe an object in your house which represents you.
"I always say, keep a diary, and some day it will keep you ." ( Mae West )
Introduction :
- a diary is a record ( originally in written book format ) with discrete entries arranged by date, and which report what has happened over the course of a day or other period;
- schools or parents may teach or require children to keep diaries in order to encourage the expression of feelings and to promote thought;
- generally, the term DIARY is employed today for personal diaries, in which the writer may detail more personal information;
Development :
A. My Diary - A Representation of My Heart
- my diary is a close representation of my heart;
- here are some of my diary thoughts sprung out directly from my heart;
- my diary's heart is full of spring romance, embalmed by the flowers perfuming the air and bunching into lovers' hearts;
- but it is not always like this, my diary tells me;
- sometimes I attempt love as climbers attempt Everest;
- I scramble along and end by camping in the foothills, or half-way up, wherever my compromise leaves me;
- some other times I get high enough to see the magnificent view of love, glimpsed in my dreams;
- then I have the feeling of that Aristotelic "eudemonia" - the feeling of being watched over by a good angel;
- some pages of my diary are filled with happiness;
- the happiness in my diary is prosperous and flourishing, not in money terms, ( although I do not exclude mentioning it ), but because I am fortunate to possess health, friendship, and the opportunities to enjoy the beauties of the world;
- when I am in sorrow, the hope of my heart in my diary seems very far away;
- but then I read, ( and put down in my diary ) that sorrow is one of the profoundest teachers of wisdom, which is exactly George Gordon Byron's sparkle ( "Grief should be the instructor of the wise !" );
- but which boy, or girl, man or woman, is free from sorrow ?
- this is because I am related to others through very complex ties : family ties, love, friendship, and by these I invite the probability of loss and sorrow into my heart;
- when I do not have someone to share my sorrows, or my joys, or my friendship, I take delight in sharing it with my diary, that is committing myself to it entirely;
B. My Diary - A Representation of My Mind
- my diary is a close representation of my mind;
- "We educate ourselves so that we can make noble use of our leisure !" ( Aristotle )
- now this thought is very challenging, I wrote in my diary;
- how should I understand Aristotle's point of view ?
- of course, the first thing that came to my mind was that this ancient point of view is directly opposed to the contemporary belief that we educate ourselves in order to get a job;
- does the contemporary point of view somehow distort the purpose of schooling ?
- and what is the aim of education ? the development of individuals as ends in themselves ? or as instruments in the economic process ?
- I struggle in my diary, and come to the conclusion that training is different from education, but we need both of them;
- my diary notes remind me that education is learning to think and to know how to find and use information when we need it;
- well, my school diary puts it that education involves those refining capacities for judgment and evaluation we acquired during the 4 years of high school studies, and which we are going to improve and master during the college and university studies;
- anyway, I put down Heraclitus' thought : "Learning is only a means to an end, which is understanding !";
- and understanding, I conclude, is the ultimate value in my education and your education;
C. My Diary - A Representation of My Soul
- my diary is a fine representation of my soul;
- with time I noticed that my private life compromise is both a saviour and a destroyer;
- sometimes I tried to sustain a relationship without accommodating to pal's character and needs;
- and I failed;
- the situation taught me that I need to sustain a relationship by accommodating my friend's character, and some at least of their needs;
- it was difficult for me to negotiate;
- and it took me long to understand that the negotiation should always be in the hope of constructive and mutually satisfactory adjustment;
- I lived to understand that people change so very often over time;
- and I often forgot this painful truth;
- and very often I missed the opportunity to renegotiate the old contract when new compromises were needed;
- I understood that all relationships are based on large compromises made by just one part to them;
- and I needed courage to survive in such permanent compromises;
- but "If the diver always thought of the shark, he would never lay hands on the pearl !" ( Sa'di );
- and "A coward turns away; but a brave man's choice is danger !" ( Euripide )
- thought of wise people inspired me the courage to fight life;
- and indeed the chances and inevitabilities of life demand kinds of endurance and bravery as challenging as those of climbing Everest;
- whenever I come upon them I happen to read my diary and see how I could pass though life's griefs, illnesses, disappointments, pains, struggles, losses, terrors;
- and by reading other diaries or autobiographies I come to understand that all common features of the human condition are experienced by each and every human being;
- there are those special pages in my diary which record a special kind of courage : the courage to meet the new, and to accept the different in the chances of experience;
- "We need courage for the most strange, the most singular, and the most inexplicable that we may encounter !" ( Rainer Maria Rilke ) is a thought that enlightened me and gave me hopes in the intricate path of my interaction with others;
Conclusion :
- a personal diary is normally intended to remain private or to have a limited circulation among friends or relatives ( or to be used for exams like I do now with parts of it );
- a diary may provide information for a memoir, an autobiography, or a biography, ( or for a special situation, like the case of my English exam );
- a diary is generally written not with the intention to be published, but for the author's own use, being a faithful representation of himself / herself;