Integrative Seminar Week 1 – 06/01/20
So finally after the end of semester 1, I’ve decided to try my best and attend most of the classes and do better in Semester 2. So let’s see how it goes.
First day of semester 2 and first class of seminar went pretty well. The class started with the discussion on the concept of ‘Critical Thinking’. Critical thinking to me is what i do when i travel in local trains, vaguely staring at something and then there is this huge scene is going on in your mind. I am a short tempered person, and critical thinking helps me out to figure out where i went wrong after my fight with my parents, friends and literally anybody. I do it when i analyse certain situations or concepts by trying to look at them from different perspectives to conclude everything and settle on a final judgement.
Then we flew back to the first semester and reunited with the concept of ‘Reflection’. Again, the first thing that came to my mind was my own shadow and how it reflects who we are. According to me, reflection is looking back at your actions just like one can see their reflection in the mirror.
Next, we moved on to ‘Imagination’. Yes, imagination is very much similar to what we dream of to happen. Our critical thinking on concepts and occasions triggers our imagination to create something beyond our 5 sensed in our heads. To me imagination of mine is something extremely personal, known by none, it is what i aspire to happen in my life accompanied by the fear of them not happening. But then, who can control their imagination right? Imagination is what has bought people down to their biggest achievements when it comes to the field of fiction, where none has been experienced practically but only mentally.
Then we came down to ‘Creative Writing’ which is used as a medium for one to pen down their imagination in words. Creative writing is a mixture of critical thinking and imagination where both of the concepts kind of contradict each other. On one hand critical thinking is based on practical facts and what has been experienced while on the other hand imagination is a concept which comprises of scenarios that are out of the world and this is how they restrict each other in a tiny manner. The restriction between the two of them leads to the final comprehension of what is written creatively, a mixture of both.
A 20 minutes task at the end was given to us. We had to write on ‘My Bedroom’. All the practical facts and things were to be mentioned about, including the emotions that attached us to them. Here is what i came up with:
Home is never the same without my bedroom in it. It’s the way a nap eventually ends up as a long sleep on only that one bed in my room. It’s the blanket, the softest gift from my mom that carries my essence in it. It’s those walls that have recorded years of my life, highlighting the best ones on it, It’s those shelves that hold the gifts from the best ones and reminds me how ugly life would have been without them in it. It’s the six feet teddy that has always been there at my corner of the room waiting for me to relax on it and feel relieved when the day is finally over. It’s the table that has accompanied me always and know how I’ve struggled to conquer what I am capable of and fulfil my parent’s dreams. And lastly, it’s the window that completes my bedroom, through which the warm sunlight wakes me up every day and makes me wonder how wonderful but messy life is and this is when I look out of it and stand curious of what future holds for me and how glad I am to be at that one place where I feel peaceful.
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