Hello world and welcome back to yet another weekly post of Sierra's Weekly Sayings! This week I will be talking about the generation of wimps. I remember when I played soccer as a child and winning a lot. I always thought our team was very good, but now that I look back on it, I don't remember one time where we even scored a goal. I have s many articles about our generation being known as the generation of wimps and in some ways I think it is true. I completely agree with the fact that if a child never learns to lose, how will they finally react when they do? In all honestly I think that younger leagues should keep scores but I think it is still important for the coaches to do their jobs, and their jobs are to teach them to play the sport, and learn that winning is not everything, they are there to have fun. Related to this is the whole who is special and equal thing. In a way I agree with this. I think that if everyone if creative, smart, talented, and special, where is the individuality? In reality, not everyone is all of these things and they may never be. The equality people want is something that may never happen. Don't get me wrong, I would love everyone to be treated equal but we cannot all be physically equal, it is impossible. I am in no way offended by our generation being called the nation of wimps because in ways it is true. The things that bugs me is that the world is saying the if we can't win, no one can, or if we can't run fast, then no one can run fast. I want equality but not this way, I will not let us live in the world of "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut where everyone is handicapped physically and mentally in order to be fully equal.

To end this weeks post, one of my most recent quote discoveries,
" Individual freedom and individual equality cannot co-exist. I dare say no one since Thomas Jefferson has really believed it." - Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Thanks for reading this weeks addition of Sierra's Weekly Sayings! Hope for you to read again next week!

Hello everybody and welcome back to Sierra's Weekly Sayings! This week I will be discussing the matters of where my happiness lies within the suffering of others. Oddly enough it seems that I tend to deal with this idea a lot. As a young girl in Middle school, I wanted to be happy and I wanted everyone else to be happy too, but that was not always the case. I remember once for a school trip, we were all put into small groups to travel with. I remember being in a group with all girls and I was pretty happy with who I was with. There were three groups. The one I was part of and two more. There was this other girl who was not a part of our group. She was very kind to everyone and smiled a lot. This time she was not smiling, she looked sad. She said she wanted to be part of our group but there were too many people in our group for her to fit. Nobody in my group wanted to trade with her, they were all happy with who that were with. I felt bad for her, so I asked if I could trade groups with her, she happily accepted my offer. Now that I look back on it, in order for the girls in my group to be happy, she was suffering. This relates to "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas" because the girl was my suffering child in a way. She was sad and she suffered in order for us to be happy. Now that I am older I feel pretty silly about it honestly.

To end this post, a quote that I find very interesting, " Every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being re-directed to something better. " -Dr. Steven Maraboli       Thanks for reading this weeks addition of Sierra's Weekly Sayings! 

Hello everybody! Welcome back to Sierra's Weekly Sayings, where this week we will be discussing the idea of how social media influences our day to day lives. In the short story "Once Upon a Time" the author Nadine Gordimer tells of a bedtime story that has rather the opposite of a happy ending. It talks about how media and news can affect the way people view their own lives and the places they live in. Social media has a tendency to cause a large amount of panic whenever there is a threat anywhere in the world. This causes people to take more drastic actions then needed such as building a wall surrounding their home or putting up a new type of special lock system that is unnecessary. Another story that touches upon this is Barry Glassner's book The Culture of Fear where the author also speaks about how the more TV a person watches the more likely they are to being overly worried about situations that are less then likely to happen. I do believe that fear saturated media does have a large effect on peoples happiness because they spend so much time worrying about things that are most likely not to happen. I also believe that this could effect the criminal justice system because since people are more and more worrying about crime that the people will have an effect on crime justice such as longer prison time and harsher punishments that are uncalled for at most times. Overall I completely agree with the idea that media effects peoples happiness.

The picture above is an example of how media can have an effect on peoples lives and happiness. To end this blog, a quote that I find quite interesting about media
" The media's the most powerful thing on earth, they have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent. Because they control the minds of the masses." -Malcolm X

Hello and welcome to my second blog post! For this post I will be talking about an important event that took place not too long ago. It happened June 26 2015 actually. This was the day same sex marriage was legalized in all fifty states. The morning I woke up and had heard the news, I was so overcome with happiness. No words could describe what I was feeling, which brings me to my picture below. The image below is a picture of internet-youtube star, Tyler Oakley. Tyler makes hilarious weekly videos about his day to day life and makes people laugh a whole lot. He is such a sweet and genuine person and is never rude to anyone. Tyler has been openly gay to his fans and viewers from the start of his career. So the day that same sex marriage was legalized, he of course took to social media to post this picture.

No words can describe the emotions he is showing in this image. No words can describe what he is thinking either. The point is, is that everyone deserves happiness. We are all equal and we all deserve a chance to be who we are no matter what. We are all beautiful in our own ways. Thank you for reading and to end this post, one of my favorite quotes ever.

"I am, you are, everybody on this planet has the capability to do something extraordinary." 

               - Tyler Oakley