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With freedom to live i’ve really only have had one experience in my life so far. that experience would obviously be moving out of my home in johnstown and moving to indiana where i didn’t know anyone and i was finally on my own! it was fun while it lasted but as the semester is coming to an end i will have to move back to my home. im excited to move back but will surely miss indiana.

Living at home to living in indiana is my two worlds. I’m a completely different person from one town to the next but i’ve manage to maintain them both in a decent manner. I’m happy im on my journey back to johnstown soon but can’t wait till fall semester to be in indiana all over again!

Our group decided for our blog this week to be about the master of 2 worlds. About someone who does that exact thing. The first person that comes into my head of course is Hanna Montana. All this teenager wants to do is be treated like a regular girl even tho she is a huge popular singer. Miley Cyrus decideds then that she would have two different identities. While Miley is at school she is a fun loving brunette being a normal teenager but when she hits the stage she puts on a blonde wig and does her thing and she is able to balance 2 different lives with her own.

Well i can’t specifically think of anytime I’ve been rescued from without but I know that if I was rescued it would change my life. Everything that ever happens in your life happens for a specific reason. If that one thing didn’t happen in your life, your whole life would be different.

Our blog this week is to write an example of how someone has refused in life. I believe that Mariah Carey is a good refusal. She refuses to give up on singing and trying to act young. Granted she is an amazing singer, there is a time where you just need to retire. the clothes that she continues to wear are much too revealing for a woman her age. haha. that sounds mean but whatever. its true and everyone would agree. mariah is a diva, we all know, but she isn’t 20 anymore and someone should tell her that asap.

The knowledge i have learned in this life is to make yourself happy before anyone else. Some people may think that is selfish but i disagree. If you cant be happy yourself, then  how are you suppose to make everyone in your surroundings happy. Of course you can hide being happy or whatever but you really aren’t getting anywhere in life. You also can make stupid big decisions based on what your friends or family want you to do but you can’t do that. You have to do what you want to do to be happy in your life because you’re the person that you have to live with 24/7.

I would and already have passed on this information to others. Especially when it comes to college. My family and friends are so hesitate about what i chose for my major but i don’t believe that its any of their buisness. I believe that as long as I’m happy doing my job then i’ll be successful no matter what.

After being ridiculously confused about what in the word apotheosis was and how it was in my life, i found out it meant breaking through to different worlds. Therefore, I believe that i have many apotheosis that has been in my life so far.

The first one id have to say was getting my first job. Getting a job meant breaking out of childhood into a stage getting into adulthood where i learned not only how to make pizzas, but many other responsibilities like customer service and fundementals of a business.

Another apotheosis in my life was whenever my mom moved out. For my little brother, I was stepping out of the role as “sister” to more of a motherly figure to him because there was no one else there.

Lastly, i’d have to say when i flew (on an airplane) by myself across the country. i planned my entire trip all by myself, got to the airport, had my luggage checked, found my flight and boarded the plane without anyone’s help but my own. Thats when i first felt as if i was an adult. When i turned 18 i went straight to the piercing salon and got my nose and belly button done. Compared to flying by myself, that was nothing. Flying by myself and being by myself completely without any help felt like i was breaking through to a different world as in my own adulthood.

All in all, there are many types of apotheosis in everyones life, but everyone has their own personal ones because only YOU can feel as if your breaking threw to a different world.

I have came to the conclusion that samsara means to move on. You may face many obsticles in life that you’ll need to overcome and just move on. There is always something in your way when you are going through any kind of journey and its when you have to be strong and don’t let your self down and just keep moving on because life isn’t going to stop just to adjust to you, you must adjust to life.

An experience I can recall is whenever my mother moved out. I was 17 and confused like a 6 year old. But not having her around couldn’t stop me from going to school or work or anything. No matter what happens and who is in my life I have to keep going on with what I’m doing to make a better future for myself. Her moving out didn’t make me stop and panic about what I was going to do next. It was hard to adjust at first but the only thing you need is time and eventually everything will work out no matter what.

For my paper, I would like to write about my hero, like in our very first blog entry with his journey. Then i’d write about my own personal journey including the stages of monomyth where i currently am in. I would then like to sum up how my older brother, my hero, has influenced me in my journey and why having a hero in your life is important and how i could be a hero to someone else.

I chose this topic because I didn’t want to do something like everyone else is doing. I wanted my paper to be personal to myself that no one else could experience not only in my own journey but also having a hero figure as my brother in my life. I believe that if i write about my own journey and what makes me a hero ill learn something about myself i never knew before.

When i looked up the word limen it had something to do with the threshold of physicological and i know im spelling it wrong now but whatever. It meant that there comes a point in a journey where the hero decides wheather he should continue on with his journey or go back. and the limen is the thing that gives him the push to make that decision.

 We have seen this in everything that we have done in this class so far. All the characters had to undergo a decision which was helped made through some sort of limen.

At first it took me awhile to really understand the belly of the whale concept. It wasn’t until after i read several blogs from the students to put it in their own life experiences until i came to the conclusion that it was like being reborn into something different, more mature and new person for the better. Kinda like when a caterpillar turns into a butterfly? haha someone tell me if i still got this wrong. but im writing it into perspective that that is what the belly of the whale concept is.

Probably my biggest turning point in life which im still trying to overcome and be a better person because of it is when again, i lost my best friend over a stupid boy. I just can’t seem why im having such trouble getting completely over the whole situation. My boyfriend was there when i had her and not and lately he has been yelling at me because he says i changed since but i don’t see how i couldn’t change from something so dramatic? And honestly whats so bad about change? you’re suppose to grow up and change as your life does. You graduate high school and you change. You enter college and you change. That’s what life is about. Change. However I believe that I have changed for the better. Going back into the quote that I love, “You must lose something good to get something better.” I believe thats what the archetype of the belly of the whale is. You grow and you blossom to become someone more wise and better then you were before.

The obvious archetype that we have read was in the book The Odyssey when they made the horse and hid inside it. Before they were inside it they were different but because of making it and literally jumping out they were like jumping out into a new, person with no fears, ready for anything that came their way. It helped him defeat Troy and continue on his journey.