Just got back from my Studio class.
Today, our professor showed the class two documentaries as inspirational examples for our next big project which is also our final. Our final project is creating a memorial piece that documents a historical moment or a historical event that we find important. This memorial piece could be anything from a garment to a movie to even a painting. The historical topic could be a person or a specific event.
Saya, our professor, showed us first a documentary on the very well known, Vietnam Memorial, located in Washington. It was really interesting to see all the work that was put into this memorial. The documentary mentioned the several trails that the designer encountered. There were many controversial arguments on the design of the monument itself. And i thought it was really interesting to see the many different view points of each group of people. The documentary definitely made me appreciate the Vietnam Memorial far more than i did prior to watching the film.
The second documentary that Saya showed us was on the tragic incident that occurred on September 9th. The crashing of the twin towers.
Watching this documentary really opened my eyes to this historical event. The documentary was basically filmed by two brothers. These two brothers were filming the lives of fire fighters and the process in which each fire fighter goes through starting from being a trainee to a full time fire fighter.
They interviewed several of the beginning fire fighters and decided to choose one in particular to follow to see and document his journey as a fire fighter.As they were doing this, it just so happened that they were able to document the tragic event of 9/11.
They film everything from the beginning of what seemed to be much like a normal day in New York all the way up to the exact time when the plane crashed into the World Trade Center and all the horrific scenes after the crashing of the plane.
This documentary really gave a clear illustration of how it must have been on September 11th. It was like I was standing in the exact place and time the event happened because the brothers each were holding their cameras and recording the entire time. The camera would record what they were going through such as running away in order to escape the debris from the building that collapsed. You could clearly see all the dust and really feel how hard it must have been to breathe through all the dust in the air.
After watching more than half of the documentary, I began to think about all the possible emotions that this documentary would stir up. And i thought that hatred and disgust towards the people who did this, were probably what many people would feel.
Because i remember at the time of when this event occurred, many students who were of the same nationality that the terrorists who had planned this attack were, were getting harassed.
But then i began to think. That the answer to all of these issues were love.
The people who had planned this attack were probably very angry and filled with hate for whatever reason. And therefore acted upon these feelings and emotions of hate and anger by plotting a plan of attack.
And because of this terrible event, many people were also angered which led to the harassment of people who in reality didn't have anything to do with it.
When I first heard of the attack, which was when i was in elementary school, i remember immediately feeling anger and hatred towards the terrorist who attacked. However, today instead of feeling the same anger and hate, I felt the exact opposite.
Not to say, that I was feeling love and compassion towards the terrorists and what they had done, but that i felt more motivated to show love onto people.
I thought to myself that it was love that these people were missing that really made them turn bitter and hate. So much so that they would even attack innocent people.
It broke my heart to know that something simple as loving and showing compassion onto people, could have changed history. Could have saved so many lives. Could have made everything so much more different. And as i was feeling this pain, it made me think of how much more pain our God, the Creator of everything, was feeling as he saw everything happening. As he watched his creations that he created to love and be loved, fight one another in hate, killing several innocent and precious lives.
This is what motivated me today, to love far greater than what i thought was "showing love" onto people.
The God of the entire universe created each and every one of us to be loved by him and out of the love he has for us, to overflow love onto the people around us! Its not about receiving the same love that you show onto people from the people that you love on. Because, many times its going to be hard to receive that, almost impossible. If receiving love from people is the only reason why you show love onto people in the first place, you're missing the point!
We shouldnt seek the love of people because first of all, we will never be satisfied with the love that people have for each other, no matter how much that person loves you. Its impossible to reach the full capacity of love that we desire inside of us. And second, We have the love of God!!! right in front of us. The perfect, eternal, everlasting love of the Father. Which is the ONLY love that will fill us up to our 100 percent and the only love that we will ever satisfy the desires of our heart.
So don't seek love from the people that you love on by giving love to them. In other words, dont love on people for your benefits of receiving back, but do it out of the love that God has for us and the love that he pours out onto us!
In that way, we will be able to change the whole world around. Because the love that we share with each other is empowered by the perfect love that God pours out onto us!!!
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