Exposing For The Public

NOT SAFE FOR WORK!

 

Logging into Facebook today a friends post caught my eye:

 

"Marina Abramović is best known for her performance pieces, in which she tries to explore what is possible for an artist to do in the name of art. Her best known piece was the recent “The Artist Is Present,” in which she sat motionless for 736.5 hours over the course of three months, inviting visitors to sit opposite her and make eye contact for as long as they wanted. So many people began spontaneously crying across from her that blogs and Facebook groups were set up for those people.

Her bravest piece, however, is my favorite. This piece was primarily a trust exercise, in which she told viewers she would not move for six hours no matter what they did to her. She placed 72 objects one could use in pleasing or destructive ways, ranging from flowers and a feather boa to a knife and a loaded pistol, on a table near her and invited the viewers to use them on her however they wanted."

- Humbert Humbert 

 



The fact that majority of the people chose pain verses pleasure when they thought they wouldn't be held responsible says a lot about human nature to me.

I commend her for her courage.

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What Do You Want In Life?

Diane Edwards had given a presentation on Harnessing the Power of Your Thoughts and Visualizations.

She asked that one important, a main question one tends to ask at one point in their own life:

What do You Want To Acheve in Your Life?.

After asking the question she then gave us five minutes to think and write down what we desire or want more in our life. I did not hesitate as I started pushiing the pen against the lined blue paper, "Happiness and Success," I wrote down. 

Most of my life I have been in the darkness, I have been mostly in a lonely place, not wanting help from everyone and with traumatic life experiences, made me plunge further down into the darkness. The last word I wrote down was “success.”

I have been lazy for most of my life s well. I would wait last minute in order to do things and if I were to complete the task, which sometimes I would not even finish what I would have to do,

I would finish it in the most sloppy and unorganized way.

I did not care about my life!

I felt that I can have everything handed to me in a single planter that did not require for me to put in much effort.

Years have past and I have grown.

In order to reach my life goals, I have to put in the effort.

I want to be successful.

I want to be successful in my marriage;

I want to be successful at my dream job, to teach and make an impact to people, to be an elementary school teacher.

I want to be successful so I can set a role model for not only my children, but be a positive role model for others that have influenced me and my personality.

How can I get to that point of my life?

Time plays a big role in this of course but having positive thinking will help me accomplish my goals. Our cognitions shape how we communicate to our self and how we communicate and interact with others.

Cognitions, being positive.

What do you want to acheve in your life?

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