Ghandi movie reflection

"An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind."

 Ghandi, a man who devoted his life to the nonviolent pursuit of justice, realized long ago that violence never solves anything. If anything, using violence against other violence only leads to additional problems and more importantly, pain. Thus in his quote above Ghandi is explaining that using violence as punishment against violence leads to nothing but loss. I hold Ghandis quote to be very true. As i have learned through my life, violence does nothing but create additional violence.  The whole movie of Ghandi elaborated on this quote very well. In the begining of the film the indians could almost never achieve victory against the british with their violence ways (because it solves nothing) but once the indians (with the guidance of ghandi) exercised nonviolent resistant against the british's violent ways they finally achieved results. 

"A man is but a product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes." 

This quote is referring to the idea that the things that we think about eventually become the words we say and subsequently the actions we do. Ghandi is trying to make people realize that the things that we obsess about and spend our time thinking about eventually consume us and make us the people we are. In the movie, Ghandi's actions are dictated by his ideologies he has for how he thinks people should behave and act towards another and this is key in shaping his character. For instance, in the scene where he is seen to be deeply troubled by the pass laws in africa, he acts upon his thoughts and eventually stages a public display against the passcodes because of his thoughts on the passcode.

The movie Ghandi has taught me much about how we could treat each other. It has given me much more respect for those that choose to "turn the other cheek" when they could possibly confront the problem violently, and the quote that "when we most needed it, he offered the world a way out of madness" will stick with me forever. 

Easter reflection

The idea of second chances is that all people inherently deserve a second chance to redeem themselves whenever they do something wrong. I believe that this idea is conditional. There are certain circumstances where the crimes that people commit are "small" enough for a second chance to be granted. Yet there are some atrocities that human beings can commit that just never can be fully atoned for. This is based on my belief that there is a universal moral compass that i believe all human beings instinctively possess. This might be wishful thinking on my part but to me i believe this is true. All throughout my life whenever when i was on the verge of doing something bad (or when i passed that threshold) i knew instinctively that i was committing something that was morally wrong. I have also met people throughout my life that I've caught "in the act" of perpetrating a crime, the expression on their face doesnt lie. Yet even though i believe that human beings consciously commit crimes and do terrible things that they shouldnt, the idea's ive learned over the past two weeks about God's unconditional love and mercy have made me rethink my convictions. The story of Easter particularly strikes me hard. For God to have given his only son Jesus to die for the sins of oh so many, he must have been something who really believes in second chances. Like it says in the bible, "For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him." Like it says in the quote, the only way the world can progress when people make mistakes is for love and forgiveness to transcend all the injustices of the world. That being said, I guess that even though people can do terrible and stupid things, we would have nothing if people thought the way i did about second chances. Because of this im going to try and make it my post easter goal to always give others a second chance when they truly need one. 

-PS thank you Ms James for giving me a second chance with my absence forms