There’s these little juice boxes that my mom buys me every so often. They are filled with chrysanthemum tea… if you don’t know what chrysanthemum is, it’s this cute yellow flower. Since it’s a flower tea it should taste herbal, but it’s sweet so I wouldn’t be surprised if it was 50% sugar in the end. The packaging is really cute, and the sweet tea is very refreshing. 8/10☆.
Since it comes in these little juice boxes, I’ve never actually seen what the drink looks like. I can’t describe its physical color or attributes, but I’ll always be able to remember the sensational flavor of it.
How can one feel such strong emotions towards a lack of physical presence. If you're thinking that I’m going to go on another tangent about memorials, you would be wrong my friend. I want to talk about messaging, ideas that don’t need the physical body to stay alive as long as they are able to break the sound barrier.
One of the pieces we looked at in class had me thinking a lot about protesters, and the purpose of why they march through the streets. I used to think it was quite pathetic, when the police would come by and swat them all away like flies.
But now that I think of it, maybe we’re the pathetic ones for not raising our voices too. When protesters get detained, usually it’s a sign that the government wants to hide their own misjudgments. To actively deny people of their freedom of speech must mean that they are spouting ideas that the government doesn’t want to hear.
Maybe I lack the dedication to throw my body in jail over worldly issues, but I’m sure the people who protest don’t go there thinking about themselves. When the government captures
Protesters usually march the streets not because they want to physically overpower the government, instead wanting to spread awareness of an idea the government has failed to fix.
Sometimes protesters end up behind bars as I’ve stated before. Yet they willingly defy the government, knowing that their words will march further than they ever could.
I like how you connect the fact that you can’t see the physical attributes to the drink, but the taste of it is always the same to the same characteristic of how protestors don’t know how they will end out but they know that their voices will be heard.
ReplyDeleteThe transition from using the drink and then into the pieces we read was amazing, the comparison between the piece and our own reality is also something that was spectacular, throughout this blog you used a lot of words or phrases that stood out to me, for example, "knowing that their words will march further than they ever could." This phrase itself has changed my personal view of protests and why some people choose to go to protest, adding on, throughout history, people such as MLK jr whose speech lives on.
ReplyDeleteI love how you connected the drink to the piece we read in class and your juxtaposition of those two was very internet to read. I love your writing style because I can follow your line of thinking throughout the piece.
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