(I know this is late, but it's been a long day and I took an extremely long nap.)
This is probably going to be short because I'm still tired, but yeah, here goes my day.
Today in theatre, the teacher wanted us to assemble ourselves into two lines in alphabetical order, while he waited outside until we were done. Now, there were 60 of us, so you can imagine that it was quite hard to manage two lines in a tiny class room. And, as most experiences in life goes, there will always be that one person who tries to take control of the situation. She seemed harmless at first, you know. just trying to get us in order, but then she started barking orders, and made the situation much more difficult than it actually was. I mean, come on, alphabetical lines. I think we know the alphabet and how to make lines by now. But the fact that people already made the assumption that they did not want to listen to her because she seemed like she was going to be the diva of the class, made me think about how important first impressions really are. Now, I'm not going to say "Oh god, I can't stand that girl" because it's only been the second day of class, though, I can say that as of now I'm not very keen to her. Who knows though. The year just has to unfold. Maybe she could genuinely be an okay person, but today her first impression on the class wasn't very great, and that's what people immediately make assumptions on. I like the fact of getting to know people, but even if I don't quite like the first impression I get of them, I will still have a slight resistance towards them. We all do it. I do think first impressions are important because it's the foundation of new relationships.
Later, in Philosophy, we discussed Plato's Phaedo and about Socrates views on death and how he sees the afterlife. Talking about the afterlife is kind of a touchy subject, because it goes along the lines on whether you have religious beliefs, and what you think of about the after life. But he made us just write for about ten minutes about our views on the afterlife, and if we believe in it or not, and why we do. I wrote quite a lot about it for it being only ten minutes, but yeah, I do believe in some type of after life. I think our souls have been sort of recycled, and that our views, beliefs, and relationships with people all have to do with our past experiences. Anyway, yeah, I don't want to get that much into that, because it all depends on personal belief, but I quite enjoy Philosophy already.
Now, lastly, I want to talk about a brilliant, young girl named Esther. I unfortunately have never had the opportunity to know Esther Earl personally, but she was so involved in the online community that I'm involved in, that it was hard NOT to know who Esther was. And now, even more unfortunately, I won't ever get the chance to personally meet Esther, because yesterday morning, August 25th, around 5 a.m., dear Esther passed away after battling cancer. She was 16. Esther was, without a doubt, an incredibly special, intelligent, lively, brave, loving, and magnificent person, and she will be truly missed. Esther was a huge part of the Nerdfighter community, and all Nerdfighters knew who she was, and couldn't help but love her. She never made having cancer the defining factor of her life, and she did all she possibly could to fight to decrease world suck. With Esther, the Nerdfighter community took matters into our own hands to vote for the non-profit charity organisation called the HP Alliance to win $250,000 in the Chase Community Challenge, which they did. Esther gave us the push, and because of her, world suck decreased. She helped run one of my favourite tumblr blogs, EffYeahNerdfighters!, as well as always putting a smile on my face when I watched her Youtube channel. Esther Earl, our wands are raised in respect for you. We will never Forget To Be Awesome, because that's what you would have wanted. Rest in Awesome, we will never forget you. As Kayley(owlssayhooot) quoted the great Albus Dumbledore in this video,"The ones we love never truly love us."
If you want to learn more about Esther, you should watch Kayley's video, watch this awesome video that John Green made with/about Esther back in July, read her blog here, and a beautiful post about her written here on The Leaky Cauldron website. If you do read any of those, especially her blog which her family has been updating now, please leave awesome, loving comments for her family.
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