Personal Commemoration- Reflection #7

Since the day that i have been born, my family and i have commemorated every person's birthday in my family. On the day of my birth, my family celebrated because i was born and commemorate all the birthday by having parties. One of the parties is for the family members, this is where we invite all the people in the family and go to a restaurant to eat dinner. Another parties is with family friends and my friends, this is where we invite all of our family friends, even if they don't live where we live. We do this because all the birthdays mean a lot to everybody in my family and we all want to be happy together and celebrate that special day.

Something that my family and friends say to me on my birthday or something we all say on someone's birthday is:
Happy birthday!! That is what all my friends say but to my family, these words mean a lot and do not just say it to wish me but they actually feel something that makes them want to make me feel special since its my birthday. People also say that "MAY THE PAST BE THE WORST OF YOUR LIFE AND MAY THE FUTURE BE THE BEST YEARS OF YOUR ENTIRE LIFE". This is something that really changes the way i think about the people who say this to me.

On birthday, we generally go out and not tend to do the usual thing. We go out and have fun. In the Indian culture, it is said that you are supposed to wear new clothes on your birthday and forget about what memories have you have with the other clothes. It is the way to start a new year and have the time of your life ahead.

The Morality of Greek Myths- Reflection #6

Apollo

In the skit that we did in class, I was Apollo. He is basically the messenger and comes in only in the part where Persephone gets kidnapped/forced to go with Hades. Hades falls in love with her but she hates him and doesn't want him to even touch her. She asks him, if she can go but he doesn't want her to leave and live with him. Apollo goes to Persephone's mother and tells her about what has happened and she gets emotional and starts crying. She thinks about what to and tells Apollo to go to Hades. Apollo goes there and tells Hades that Persephone has to go back (it was an order) and she cannot stay with him and everybody is really angry at him. Apollo takes Persephone and Hades want her to eat pomegranate with him and she agrees that she will go and do that and leaves as soon as she is done with the fruit. They leave and then, the people find Hades and hit him since they are taking out their anger at Hades. This is the part of the the story that my friends and i took part in. This is the end of the story but watching the skit was really a good moment of life and i think that doing skits leads us into learning things in an easier way and can remember it for a long time.