How do our life experiences shape our values? Values and beliefs are something most people hold dear to heart. We can begin to form the values from experiences as children or adults. The ideology that happiness in life will come from finding your own home, or even making your own. Struggles and past experiences can give us different values as people. Some people have a distaste for the land they were born in, or the situation they were handed in life, but found a home and found happiness.
Articles like, “So where are you from?”, by Naomi Sepiso gives off the sense that the author does not want to be placed into a hypothetical box of who you are, but rather make your own home in society. The character, never given a name only referred to as …show more content…
The author was born with what he calls, water on the brain. The not so fancy term for saying he had cerebral spinal fluid in his skull. Also he was grew 42 teeth, 10 more than the average human. He had continuing eye issues and was in general given one of the worst situations in life. This constant day to day life of getting bullied and beat up could have shaped his values for the worst, becoming one of those people that despise the human race, and feel some just got to go. Instead he found a source of happiness, this was art. This started out as more of a hobby, because it’s safer for kids like him to stay inside, all he could do was draw. Eventually, he started to draw better and made more meaningful pieces. His reasoning for drawing is, not everyone can speak English or Japanese, but everyone knows what a flower looks like. Art is a way to connect with the world, not just a certain audience. This comfort and home he found in life, due to his condition shaped his life in amazing and beautiful ways. This life he has been handed was not the greatest, but that life he was given could be turned into a message. He even says, “I like to think the world is a series of broken dams and floods, and my cartoons are tiny little
Articles like, “So where are you from?”, by Naomi Sepiso gives off the sense that the author does not want to be placed into a hypothetical box of who you are, but rather make your own home in society. The character, never given a name only referred to as …show more content…
The author was born with what he calls, water on the brain. The not so fancy term for saying he had cerebral spinal fluid in his skull. Also he was grew 42 teeth, 10 more than the average human. He had continuing eye issues and was in general given one of the worst situations in life. This constant day to day life of getting bullied and beat up could have shaped his values for the worst, becoming one of those people that despise the human race, and feel some just got to go. Instead he found a source of happiness, this was art. This started out as more of a hobby, because it’s safer for kids like him to stay inside, all he could do was draw. Eventually, he started to draw better and made more meaningful pieces. His reasoning for drawing is, not everyone can speak English or Japanese, but everyone knows what a flower looks like. Art is a way to connect with the world, not just a certain audience. This comfort and home he found in life, due to his condition shaped his life in amazing and beautiful ways. This life he has been handed was not the greatest, but that life he was given could be turned into a message. He even says, “I like to think the world is a series of broken dams and floods, and my cartoons are tiny little