Discovering the Unseen

Often times, what is unseen manifests before our eyes simply because we shift our view.
Recently, scientists discovered 657 islands that had yet to be revealed. Technology did aid in this discovery with thanks to the development of satellite imagery. However, I believe there was a shift in search. For some time now, we have navigated our way using set maps and the world globe when it was not even complete. Yet, we did so because we believed we had the whole picture. There are now 54 islands over a stretch of 354 miles off the coast of Brazil and now the list of identified islands has grown to an additional 30 percent. While this is a discovery witnessed in nature, I believe that there are many of things left unseen in our own personal worlds. See, we create our world through the film we desire and we have the choice to say when we think it is complete. Unfortunately, I believe this exploration gets cut-off far too short of the destination simply due to our perspectives. We get to decide whether we will enjoy a movie or whether we will learn in class purely based off of our mindsets and if we are open or have already closed the door with an early assumption. What if we shifted our perspective in every daily scenario to take it as it is in the present? Would we learn something new? Would we grow beyond the preset line we formerly drew? Maybe we all have 657 more islands in our life left to see if we open our reset our conclusions and decide to just walk each day out.
Personally, I hope I never stop short on this journey and cut down this tree.
For, I am not a stump.

Why have we become a "preventative" society?

THIS is ridiculous!
It is a sad day when our younger generations are having to take "preventative" measures, based upon their appearance, to make it in the world peaceably. What is even more sad, is the fact that these "expectations," or should I say social constructions are coming from disillusioned former generations. Precious 7-year-old Samantha Shaw cannot even accept the truth in the very first word of this sentence- that she is precious. Not solely because of the pressure from her elementary friends, but from their even more maliciously deceived parents did Samantha face criticism. Samantha may have heard it a bit from her young peers, but it was the remarks made by her peer's parents to Samantha's mother that led her mother to the decision of nipping and tucking her daughter's ears. Not only does the tragedy lie in the fact that this was done as preventative measures for Samantha's future, but the fact that this practice is openly accepted, even on a child.
Young and innocent-minded Samantha cannot even grow up in an unbiased, un-littered environment because of all the social constructions we have made today to define a culturally-varying term such as, "attractive." Fortunately, she has blonde hair and blue eyes, because otherwise she may have to have that altered as well. I mean seriously, society has created a picture of what is acceptable to our eyes and what is not. Yet, this negates and brainwashes the people from the truth that we are created uniquely and fashioned in such a way that there is no other like our selves. Having pale skin no longer is a trademark of your image, but a curse because you were born "unacceptable" or "cursed." This truly breaks my heart. In the "Land of the Free," not one person came come and live the "American Dream." This endeavor is literally impossible and I honestly hope people come to see this truth through eyes of enlightenment. That we are beautyfull.

Set Apart

In this article, one young man steps outside of genetics to explore his extreme giftedness and uniqueness. With an IQ of 180, exceeding the estimated IQ of Einstein himself, 12-year-old Jacob Barnett is already taking on Einstein's theories of quantum physics. Interestingly enough, not only was this sort of endeavor unforeseen by his parents, but also by his doctors as he was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome at the glimmering age of 3. This story portrays to me the beauty possessed in the mind of innocence. At age 3, a child has no cracked-foundation for the term Asbergers or disability. They simply do what they were made to do- explore. I feel that young Jacob did just that, he did not allow the foreign words diagnosed by the doctor affect him, he simply just did only what he knew. He lived within the means given to him without the stifling false assumptions of the world to limit him. And explore he did, into not just undiscovered land for a toddler, but for some of the most learned and accomplished astrophysics. Biblically speaking, we are the Children of God made in His Image. I simply do not see anything more unlimited than that very identity. He declares that because of this creation, we have been Set Apart, not confined to the fallen nature of the World, but that from us, Greater things have yet to come. Now, some may want to call this boy a scientific wonder, but I think we meagerly wonder because we cannot wrap our science around this identity. It is not of this world.