Thursday, September 25, 2008
HEY JOKERS
okay so I'm in contemporary lit...and we have been reading "Bleachers" by John Grisham...some may say an easy read like Kyle..but Whatevs its pretty good i just finished it last night...and they whole theme throughout the story is what is greatness? So I want to know what you think Greatness is...
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the ability to fail and strive to overcome it.
This making me a little nervous, bman2426, um, can we somehow relate to this post to the literature we are studying, eh?
Ummm, are you in my class? I mean, it's o.k.--definitely--if you want to talk about literature. Check otu Dante. He's much better than Grisham,in my opinion.
O.k. I really do think that I am getting to be senile--nolanfan, I didn't notice it was you. Yesterday, I was told how to randomly post to others' blogs, and I thought someone from another class had started posting.
Oh well. Greatness? A very relative term, I think, depending upon circumstance.
I matter of perception. Many of who I think great would go unknown and unnoticed by many others.
Greatness, in my opinion, is to try and succeed. Not try to succeed. I feel that if one tries hard enough, one will succeed, at least in part. Some people go around saying "I'm trying, I'm trying," but they aren't actually trying that hard. Sometimes a little more effort is all that needed when you've fallen into a rut that's seems just impossible to get out of.
Greatness, in my opinion, is the ability to find what makes you different from everyone else and run with it.
Greatness is superlative definition. Greatness is the pin-pointing of self, and using it to exploit a natural proficiency within your own being. Where greatness varies is the diverse protean of strengths and abilities from person to person.
Can greatness be referred to in a negative way? Or is it strictly positive and supportive? I guess that's left up to your own perception. In my opinion, it is an utmost positive--a pinnacle--and only that.
I just want to clarify my previous comment because, reading back, it may not be taken the way I intended.
That "superlative definition" is as others see it in you or someone else, not necessarily something one finds outstanding within themselves. Also, the second sentence is from a "blind" perspective. Meaning it's something other people know and have connected to that greatness, but you haven't. Not exactly modesty, but an idea that greatness is deemed unto others by others.
Sorry if I just complicated it more :)
"To overcome oneself is greatness."
Lao Tzu
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