The power of being critical and thoughtful

I see many positive aspects in being critical and thoughtful. In this last page of the project I will try to put them forward. 

Without thinking critically we just look at the surface of things. As I have explained many times before in my projects,  before this course I limited myself to go through the pages of books trying to understand the content of them but I had never thought about the writer saying something to me or as me being responsible for responding back to the author. This made me be a poor reader and therefore a poor writer. Someone that, like the scholarship boy, wasn’t able to write something passionate or something of my own. However, being critical doesn’t only have to do with reading and writing. Being critical and thoughtful is important for every aspect of life. It helps us make the right decisions by picking from life what is worthy and getting rid of what it is not. We become intelligent and we start to know in what to believe and in what to trust. We start to  build our own set of values and believes. Consequently, we avoid becoming either imitators of others such as the scholarship boy or Dyland Klebold, or difficult personalities such as McCandless or Descartes, who don’t fit in the world. We are reluctant to be someone that just believes or someone that just distrusts. We learn not to be a writer who just knows to either copy or contradict others’ ideas. Instead, we manage to make our own work and to feel identified with it. This makes us become much better writers, this makes our work worthy to read. In the two previous sections I tried to explain the danger of becoming either imitators of others or people who live against the tide, now I am trying to transmit to you how great it is to be critical, how great it is to be you. Through being critical we get to know ourselves better. Consequently, like Mary Karr and unlike McCandless we learn to overcome the difficulties that life places upon us. Moreover by getting to know ourselves we become more us, we become more unique and therefore we are more able to make our own contribution to the world. The contribution Freire is looking from each of us.

In short, through being critical we learn to be ourselves and I believe that through being and feeling unique we achieve happiness and success. This makes me want to  thank both, these three writers and our writing course for encouraging us to be critical and for making us become more ourselves.

Finally, I want each of you to watch this video because someone critical is also someone who realizes the important things of life and someone that like Mary Karr, doesn't give up when bad times arrive but finds HER way to overcome difficulties. So remember, when difficult  situations come don't give up, be critical, look for solutions and think that "the only way out is trhough" and that there is someone in the world that is suffering more than you and that it is not fair for them that we fall to pieces when something doesn't go as we expect. Life is amazing so we have to be thankful and we are responsible for making the most of it. 

Thank you very much for your time and I hope you enjoyed this last project as much as I enjoyed working on it!