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.

 Prompt Response: Two of my most burnings about life, my existence or my purpose are "Is everything we do so insignificant that we are only make an impact so small that it's barely noticeable, if so what is one reason why you move forward each and every day?"; Another question I have is "What defines a person's purpose in life? is it their determination/will to do something or is it because of their own circumstances or those  around them? What's the exact definition?". For the first question I started questioning it when I was in my junior year when I was quite the slacker because of my own mental fortitude when facing adversity in life, I started to wonder if I was really changing anything or making an significant impact going day by day whether I did something so little or not. The second question however once I got back on my footing on .moving forward I started to wonder on the path I should take, to which I was unsure of, but that didn't stop me as I have the ambition to sail the skies and to be above the clouds in a plane where I get the enjoy the scenery for long periods of time while I challenge myself as well. While it's not what my purpose might be, it's still a path that I am willing to take if I have to push myself. 

Summary: Today in class we went over a short poem ("I Too") about a black man (Langston Hughes) who talked about what it's like being an American despite his skin color. We discussed what some of the stanzas or lines in the poem could symbolize. 

Reflection: Today I learned in class about how a few characteristics of the cultural identity about the black man (Langston Hughes) such as him eating in the kitchen for discrimination for his skin color for example. This impacted me by the symbolization to certain terms or the idea around it meaning much more than I had expected to which I had just thought there was nothing wrong with it. I will use this in the future by implementing certain themes from this poem into my own throughout this week when creating my own to spice it up a little more. 

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