another interview

1)Was life better for you when you were younger or now?

aunt - its better now, i actually have better clothes and plenty of food, and a nice place to live in

2)Were you happier with your life when you were young or now?

aunt - more now, but i liked it better when family was close, here family dont come see each other as much.

3) What's your opinion on us younger generation?

aunt - you take things for granted and waste a lot of money, you all like to buy things, in the end you wont use anymore. Also your generation don't go and visit family a lot, and one day you just might need them. You all have such good education, that we didn't have back then, yet you dont do your work because your all so lazy.

My opinion on old people

My feelings towards old people is neutral i don't dislike them but they're not the best people to hang out with. Sometimes i find them annoying but only when they tend to repeat things over and over again and when they complain too much, but other then that I'm fine with them. I think they're just like us, just in a different stage, and sometimes a different time. But thats going to be all of us, we're going to grow old and think differently then how the young people will because we grew up in a different time period. I see people as people who tend to give out advice a lot, some what like lecturing you, but then again all people do that when they're giving out advice.

interview

1)Do you still find your life meaningful/worth living? 

mom- "yes"

2)What was most important to you when you were younger? studies or having fun?

mom- "having fun"

3)Whats something you'd tell me not to do that you've done?

mom- "getting married young, and not finish studies"

4)Are you happier with your life now? or when you were young?

mom- "im happier now, because im more aware of my life, because i have more responsibilities"

5)Have your values changed from when you were young to now?

mom- "yah, money became more important to me now then it was before"

Questions for old people

1) do you find life meaningful to you still?

2) What was most important to you during your childhood?[studies, having fun...]

3)What are some things you might tell me not to do, that you regret doing when you were young?

4)Are you happy with your life now? and when you were young?

5)have your values from when you were young changed?

inauguration

in the inauguration Obama mention that our success depends "hard work and honesty, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism" which is like how in folk culture, people tell us how, that through hard work we can succeed in what we want, and also to be loyal to those we are close with, and that these things are part of what makes a good and meaningful life. Also Obama mentioned God a lot in his speech which goes that religion is important to him in some way, and in parents or family members also told me to go to church on sundays, that god is the only one thats always with you in soul, and to be faithful to god, and to have a good and meaningful life, you need god to be by your side.

Martin Luther King day

On Martin Luther King day i dont really do anything cause i dont celebrate it, but on TV there were alot of shows about him. On this day we're focusing on this man who stood up to fight for more rights for black people and end segregation between whites and blacks. In a good and meaningful life, people say that being equal to one another is part of having a good and meaningful life. So by everyone of different race accepting each other, there is a feeling of unity which people also think is important to having a good and meaningful life.

Holiday insight

Christmas is a day where we celebrate the day Jesus was born by, spending time with family and friends, or going out and partying, and giving each other gifts. Its a day where we waste our money to buy people things, instead of giving them what we already have like it was originally made to be. This goes to show how dependent we've become with technology and other things that didn't exist before. We depend on products corporate media influenced us to want/like, to make other people happy and satisfied with their life.

Christmas shows us that to have a good and meaningful life, we need each other, and other things which we find are meaningful, which reminds me of quotes from Fight Club about how "we're consumers" and how the "things you used to own, now they own you" because each time something hip comes out, people become so interested in it and want to buy it, and then you just stay obsessed with it until a new item comes out and that becomes your new "master" making you waste your money for it, even though you don't need it to survive in this world, just to rank where you are in popularity. So all in all, christmas tells us to spend time with family and friends, drink and party, and become mindless zombie and go out and buy a lot of things while they're still on sale, since things make your life more meaningful.