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Style or Substance. What matters the most? - Practice Essay

Assignment: 
Is style more important than substance? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.
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Style more important than substance?

Not, really. Substance is what is most important in life, not style. Why? Because you can live a very stylish life, but life without substance is nothing, by the end of the day you will be just a living "person" not a real "human". Style is something that is part of substance. If you have substance you therefore will have your own style to live, to learn about every experience, to read books, to know people, to see life. Its about your substance how your life will be, not about the "style" your life has. 

Writers, for an example. Every writer has a different style to create their novels, their jobs; either they are non-fiction, fiction, documentary, a journal, a diary, poetry, essays, etc. There are different styles that writers use to create their master pieces, style is what makes them different from other authors, but substance is what measures their success, not the style they write. Its the substance what you read, the knowledge they have, how they apply that knowledge or fictionary world into their job, so when you read it you are taken to another world, or to the place where the news are being developed, or to inform you what they are trying to share with you. Its the substance of their job what matters, style is something important, but not as much as substance. What it is inside is what makes the book valuable, not the style, style is just a plus.

Art is another example. There are many art styles, you can find a different style or way to creat art within the centuries, but what makes special those pieces of art are the substance their artist printed on them. What they were feeling, how they looked at the world or someone, how they felt the air, how they looked at some place and tried to make that feeling or impression live forever. They used their technique and their style to make it happen, but it is substance of things the reasone why it happenned.

Poverty and richness. Both different types of living, but both have something in common: Substance. It depends on who and what you are how you will live your life, you can be happy with all of the money, and without all of it. You can be empty or full of joy. You will might have the most glamorous style or the worst life style, but that doesn't depends on money, it depends on the substance of who you are, not your style. 

Substance is everything. Is what makes us as differents and human beings, what makes the world a beautiful place. Style is a part of substance, but not more important than it.


P.D. 
I got 5 out of 6 in my score btw. Will try to improve for the next one. 

Live.

Death is something unkown for many, only those who are dead and not with us anymore, know how is like to be dead and not alive in this body.

Some people out there is dying because they don't have what to eat, because of social injustice and because of so many things in life that are not fair.

Some people complains about what they have and about what they don't have, about things that are not neccessary to live, some people die because they can't afford medicine, because they can't afford a good living condition and those who die are the ones who must worry for living than those who have so many blessings and can't see those things because they can't see further than their nose.

I was standing on the sidewalk of my house today in the morning and a homeless dog was passing by, he looked at me and I say hi to him, he smiled and move his tail, he got closer and he look at me and he was happy to say hi to me, and then he kept walking. A dog that doesn't know me and was so happy to see me just because I say hi to him.

There was this other day when I got out from work, the usual thing to do, I took the public transportation and I started to think many things as usual. I was standing inside the bus right in the middle, when I looked at one of the seats and I saw this old sick lady. She was obviously going to her home and most likely from the hospital, because she had meds and a hospital bandage. Her sight was lost, looking at the nothing. It killed me inside to see her eyes and to see how sad and worried she look, her little beautiful eyes where tired and sad, and I felt really bad about it, because I was not able to do anything for her, to make her situation better and it hurt me very much. I wanted to do something, anything, so the only thing it occur to me was to give her a granola bar I had in my bag, so I took it out and I gave it to her. She didn't look at me, she took the bar and she stare at it, she took it with both of her hands and she put it in her chest and  then it happenned: that moment where my heart and her heart were connected, she looked at me back and smiled at me, I smiled back at her and the time felt endless and I felt sad and happy at the same time. I arrived to my bus stop, I smiled to say bye and she did the same. I got down and started to cry because I felt pain and sad because I was powerless.

Life is not fair for all, and I remember that some people are really having a very hard time and we complaint for nothing sometimes, but this people that suffers a lot, they still smile back at you when you look at them as the humans they are and not with pitty or sadness. Life is not fair, but that is part of what it makes it complex and beautiful.

Problems, sickness, complications and death are a blessing to remind us that life is precious, unique; that is worth to live it and to enjoy. That life is full of wonders, blessings, feelings, ups and downs, learnings. To know that we are here and not dead. Death is something that will happen any time or another, but you decide wether to live or not while you are still alive and to make a difference in this world and to create and envision a better version of you every day, LEARN and while you do it, live every experience as the last one!

 Please, LIVE. 

Silvia.

Literally. I am listening to Chvrches - Recover while I write this post. So you better listen to it so you can feel the vibe too, haha.

Today I hang out with a friend that I haven't seen since about 3 years ago. And we hang out, went to the movies (BTW CAPTAIN AMERICA IS AWESOMEEEE, GO WATCH IT!), then we went to our old university (Where I studied 6 semesters of industrial engineering), and then we went for some ice cream.

It was very refreshing to see her, to see how people changes and grow and move forward with a smile while they fall and when they get up.

I really loved to hang out with you today Silvia. You remind me those days when we were in our late teens and we were so naive and go around from one building to another, having fun, falling in love for 10 minutes and then getting over the person that we had the crush with and go to class, getting stressed but overall having fun of every experience.

Catching up was so refreshing and you are always smiling and with that great mood, its so funny how you tell stories about how a guy broke your heart after 3 long years and how you were telling me that with a smile and then "Well fuck it, I cried only 15 days and then I moved on, time is too precious" ........ what a lesson that you have learned and that I have learned just a few days ago. MOVE ON and enjoy what comes next, but always smiling and embracing life.  You have been always a fighter and I realized about that until today.
And you told me so many things about me that now I am learning to embrace and that makes me unique. Thanks to you I remember today that our past and our experience makes us who we are and that we have to keep growing and smiling at all times. You remind me that we can be the best in whatever our goal is, that the key factor is never stop trying.

Thank you Silvia.

Your friend, Mario.

Stop! - Poetry?

No room for sadness.
No room for thinking.
No room for what you were feeling.
No room for looking back.

You are being chased.
You are running.
You are strong.
You don't have time.

Time is precious.
Time is for doing all that you can.
Time is worth it.
Stop thinking.

You are wasting time.
Time is being wasted by you.
You are wasting seconds, minutes, even hours.
Those seconds, minutes, even hours will not come back.
You waste it.

Deception.
Dreams.
Death.

Stop!

Love?
Will come back.
The same?
Maybe in a different person.
Hope?
For fools, be realistic.
Happy?
For being alive.

What is this?
A process.
For what?
For getting better.
Healing?
There will always be a scar.

Believing?
In you, never stop believing in you.

What is this?
I don't know.

Stop!
Stay blank
Breathe.
Live.

Too much.
This is becoming bullshit.
No.
It is not fair.
It's hard to handle.
But it can be better.

Heart
Mind
Body
Should be one.
Be one.
Be you.

What if?....

Stop!

I write.

It's so hard to deal with this.

I don't think I was ready to love. Why? Because I just knew that love was a situation that can happen to everyone that It will take me down for a while before I could learn and grow from it.
It is such a fucking complicated situation where you get in to without knowing anything about the relationship you are getting in to it. Is like being an investor and not knowing what you are investing your time in. You don't know anything about it. You just know that you can fall inlove with that person and let the time goes by and see how everything grows and gets better so one day can end.

Here is the thing. I write. This is the only method I have known since I was a teen to relieve what I feel, so I don't explode so I don't keep all this inside. I know that all of the things I write might not have sense or that I might seem crazy. But I swear I have nothing or someone to tell everything that I feel or just talk about this that I feel or what I would like to do. Anne Frank said it, I customize it: Paper (Blog) just listen, unlike humans! You just say it, you don't have to justify what you say. So I write, and then I read, and then maybe a week later I read and I feel better, because I don't even remember how I was feeling and its good, because that means that I am feeling better. Its my own therapy to let out, to let go and to keep mentally sane.

So I have been writing a lot about love and feelings lately. Its very obvious that there is something inside me that is not ok with all of this yet. It is hard to describe and to understand, I just can describe it like a fucking salad of feelings but I am getting better lately. I am getting stronger. The storm that was spinning around my heart and mind is finally disipating and I think I can see some sunlight inside me again, and that's good. That means I am getting better.

It is my first love, it is the first time I have felt so many feelings and so much passion inside. I just never thought that I would be capable of so much, and to get it over and to become stronger and to realize that little by little you don't need to think or to be with that person anymore, because you are actually moving on. And that.........its good and it feels quite right.

It's getting easier to stop thinking about you and to keep you away, I remember a month ago, it was so fucking hard to keep you away, to think of you and to feel sad and so melancholic. Your love did a huge impact and change a lot in me. I am getting better and depending less and less of my heart and becoming stronger again, better than before. I am more stronger to keep away from you and I like it, because I don't like to feel sad all of the time, altough it is good to be sad, because if you are sad that means that soon you will be happy and better. It is a life style that you choose, to be happy and to be stronger. And many might think that being with someone is just a "normal" thing that happens and you cannot avoid. Well you can choose not having it, because I want my essence to be only for me, because when you get with someone, a part of you stays with them, and stays with them forever and your essence is there, not only yours anymore. So for now, I am getting better and that's all.

I write. And I feel better. Thanks.-

Humanity is not lost.

One day someone I really appreciate told me:

"The difference between you and me, is that I'm ok with my life and I just want to focus on me and what I want. But you, want to change your life, and you want to change the world. I don't want to change it, and you want to make everything better."

I think he told me that as a critic or to make me feel bad, but instead I felt proud of me, and that if people think that of me I am happy that is the perception I give. Because YES I want to change the world. This world is full of beautiful things, as well as so many awful things that happens everyday, and we just ignore them and do nothing about it.

Humanity is beautiful, the earth is beautiful and the universe that surrounds us as well, why shouldn't we try to improve and make our world a better place to live, for everyone and not just for a few?

We never realize that the world problems are now a matter that should concern everyone, because we are no longer living in a world where nobody knows about the injustice and inequality that occurs in every corner of the world.

We are 7 billions of humans. That is seven thousand millions of humans. (Just to clarify)

Why do we never realize the power that we have? But we leave the responsability to improve the world to our politicians, presidents, governors, ministers, etc.... Instead of us doing something we leave everything to a few that at the end of the day only cares about the sovereignity of their country/empire. The world is ready for us to stand up for many causes that are worth it.

Gender inequality, machism, homophobia, poverty, the huge breach between social classes, better education, wars, religious intolerance, animal abuse, environmental issues, world warming, deforestation, and I can make a really huge list.

The world can be different if everyone of us could concern and try to change one thing every month in our culture, but starting by ourselves. In a year you could change 12 things and make the world a better place for humanity by doing an effort every month.

Leaders and humanitarians such as Mahatma Ghandi, Monseñor Romero, Princess Diana, Mother Teresa, and others did the change, and the impact of their actions and their activism changed the reality of many. I'm not intending to say that we all should be like them, because their life was full activism, we have many things to do, but there is always room to do something.

If you are a gay person and you live in a first world country, you should speak for those like you who are being killed and being imprisoned and beaten just for being who they are in those countries where extremist religious beliefs rule the society. Be their voice, speak up for them. It hurts to see how many politicians that put their religious beliefs first instead of analazing and thinking about the situation that LGBT population goes through because of people who is blind by their beliefs.

If you are woman and you are strong and can stand against abuse and inequality and speak up, you should share your courage and strength to those girls that are being abuse and that are being treated in a form nobody should; speak for them, stand for them, be a light for them. It is so sad to see a world where the female population is bigger than the male population and still is being out ruled and discriminated by those who think that man are more capable of women.

If you are a man and you are tolerant and you believe in equality and that we all are the same and that you are not better than anybody just because of your gender........speak up against those who believe they are more capable than those who doesn't share their bigoted thoughts about gender superiority.


Those are just some things that you could do and change. It is so shocking to see how our society has evolved in so many good things, but in the other hand it seems that we are going nowhere. There are are many countries that have the power to change so many human rights abuse and discrimination, and be the voice for those who are being smashed in so many places, but since those countries don't have oil, nobody cares about doing something. We are not late to react and to keep that light that makes us humans and that makes humanity so beautiful, we are world citizens, we share the same world, there are not physical frontiers. We are all capable of beautiful things, if just the half of the population could engaged and change something the world would improve so much.

There is light in the world, but we just have to realize that is inside of us and start shining and become a star in a world that really needs more light.