Hello and welcome back to Sierra's Weekly Sayings! This week we will talking talking about rational and irrational elements. We are almost finished with the book Notes From Underground where our narrator believes that human existence is often about the internal battle we wage each and every day between rational and irrational thoughts and actions, or elements. I personally do not fully agree with this. Human existence is so much more then he says it is. People have to deal with internal struggles everyday, it is part of being human, but it shouldn't have to come to the point where these are all that you think about. Human's have so much potential to do good in the world but people's minds use the irrational elements to overthrow and take over their peaceful actions and ideas. I do not think that rational is more powerful then irrational or vise versa. I do think that irrational thoughts lead to more experiences and they teach us more then the rational thoughts. They are both equal in my eyes. I know that I do not spend my time everyday thinking about my internal struggles. I never have irrational thoughts unless it is something silly like I'm going to drop out of school and hit the road or something idiotic like that. But that is my mind. Everyone has their own rational and irrational elements that help make that person who they are. Each persons thoughts are unique in some way. Whether or not you let those rational and irrational elements take over your mind, just know that we are on this earth to do more then just let our thoughts consume us. We take these thoughts and we will make something positive out of it. I know I have already started one day at a time.
To end this blog post,
"But rational thoughts lead only to rational thoughts, whereas irrational thoughts lead to new experiences."
- Alan Lightman
Thank you for reading!

Hello and welcome back to another week of Sierra's Weekly Sayings! This week I will be talking about my own contradictions in my life. I have a lot actually. The first one would be that I am sometimes late but expect others to be one time. I am not usually one who is late but when I am I always feel sorry for the person who has to wait for me. If I am not late but the person who I am with is late, then i guess I am a little annoyed because that person should be more responsible and be on time. This one is probably my worst one cause it happens a lot. I hate this contradiction because I know how it feels when I am late to hang out with that person yet I still get upset when they are late. I just need to work on being on time and not letting the other person being late bother me. The second contradiction I have in my life is that I have no religion but still pray when I am really scared. This one is big for me cause my family has never had any religion and I know nothing about religious ideas but I still do this sometimes. I do not believe in a certain religion or god but I do believe in their ideas and thoughts. So I do this sometimes to keep myself from freaking out and to make myself more calm inward. I have honestly come to terms with this contradiction and do not plan on settling on a single religion ever. The last contradiction I have in my life is that I want to make myself happy but spend so much of my life making others happy. I always tell myself that I am going to try and make myself happy, but I use so much of this time to make sure other people in my life are happy. I care about everyone and I want everyone to be happy. I see this as a flaw in my life because, yes I want to make sure everyone in my life is happy, but I always need to make sure and ask myself if I am happy. I don't have very many contradictions in my life so I guess I am a bit of an idiot in some ways but I enjoy the contradictions I have in my life. Without these contradictions, I would not be the person I am today.
To end this weeks blog,
"Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack a contradiction a sign of truth."
- Blaise Pascal
Thank you for reading this weeks edition of Sierra's Weekly Sayings and I hope to see you again next week!