Creative Non-Fiction Essay - NCTC Students
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How to Navigate Being Jennifer Vidana What does it mean to navigate? What does it mean to be (as a being)? Seems redundant to go into the definitions, but get a grip reader(s), because we are diving deep. To navigate something means to coordinate and direct a path, typically in form of a blueprint, or map of the sorts. Limits- What are limits? Start there. We start somewhere. For what? To finish. Explore that further. What is your purpose? Purpose in terms of the present now is soul-searching, and knowing the true core of oneself. In terms of the future, one’s life purpose serves to help others via natural abilities. What is creativity? What is a thought process? Creativity can be anything from free-range of acts and emotions translated into a form of art, to essentially just marinate in your imagination and use those juices for the betterment of yourself and the world. After all, they are one in the same. Tenacity is the reason one must repeat until you have acquired full comprehension of perfection as is. You cannot fully understand something until you have gotten a full grip of it. Everyone learns differently, we have been aware of this for some time now. Work with what you got and use your creativity to maneuver your way around things that are best suited to you. The one thing we have control over in being, is the way you choose to react in any given situation and under any circumstances. Find a way to enjoy surviving, that is what life is. You are guaranteed a perfect balance of willingly enduring trials and tribulations and reaping the benefits of doing so. At times our gut feeling, or otherwise known as our inner voice, magnetically pulls us to a certain direction in life. These paths can bring heartache or resilience. Sometimes the paths will bring you enlightenment or leave you in the dark, but nonetheless it was tailored just for you. That in itself means the world. Energy never stops and that is all that we are, so be as you are. Pave your own path, and walk it. We’ll get there. We need structure to succeed, or more so we are beginning to learn this may be a possibility to rejuvenate the Earth once again. We are our biggest critics and it is of the utmost importance to come to terms with this. There is nothing in the world that is thrown at us that we cannot handle. It is in our rights as individuals to express ourselves and defy another person’s beliefs; in fact, it is encouraged. Doing so keeps one grounded when you take from it what you must. Diffuse this situation of its nutrients. Remember, the more you know, the less you know. Not to be rhetoric, but as far as we know, knowing is half the battle. Understanding and embodying such things are when the ball gets rolling. I am a poet, I am an ambitious college student, and I am many others things that follow. As there are many ways for things to be said, there are rights and wrongs, truths and lies. The beauty of it all is that only are we the ones who can choose. “Every action causes a reaction.” Easy rhyming, easy timing. As a writer, and I can call myself a writer, no one is going to care until something is said, done, and then gone. Until then, rinse and repeat. This message is for those who are slowly but surely awakening. Do you find yourself asking these exponential, existential questions in a mid-day daze, or in the middle of the night? 36 The April Perennial
