Dear Blaizey,
Thank you for everything. I know how taxing it is to take care of me every time I relapse back into my dark places, but you make it all better. Without you, I probably wouldn't have ever been able to conquer my demons. You came in and picked me up off of the ground and took care of me until I could stand on my own again. You are family now, Mom and Dad love you, you know that. I think it's evident every day when you come home late and the first thing Mom asks is if you're hungry, when we all sit down to have dinner together and my parents force food on you, or whenever you and my dad hang out in the shop together, fixing things and being all manly. We couldn't be happier to have you as a part of family, and you should know you're always welcome to our slightly dysfunctional home when things are getting slightly more than dysfunctional on your side. I'm sorry for being so hard on you sometimes, I can't help but want the best for you and for you to achieve your dreams. Your hard working personality and devotion to everything you do inspires me. Thank you so much for always being there for me and being supportive and understanding when I struggle. Thank you for pushing me to do just a little bit better whenever we go racing, and coaching me at wrestling tournaments, trying to coax out my best performance. Whenever I want to see my best side, I know it's whenever I'm with you. Thank you for being my everything, and above all, my best friend. Happy year and a half baby.
Love you with all my heart,
Ducky
Friday, 19 September 2014
Tuesday, 16 September 2014
Censoring the Masses
This week's topic is the censorship of writing, a practice which I frown upon with the biggest scowl I can muster up. The censorship of written works is akin to the censorship of thoughts and feelings. The only people who agree with such are dictators and other people who wish to control the masses. These people are afraid of independent thought and would like to avoid having alternate thoughts being considered by the people under their power. Unfortunately, this is the alluring quality of published writing, all of the different ideas and ideologies that have been expressed for your consideration. To some this is scary, as it threatens their own ideal little world in which they would hate for people to disagree with them, but to me, it is beautiful to be able to tap into a little piece of many people's minds. In life everyone has different opinions, so we need to accept that, and accept everyone's thoughts in the form of writing. While I definitely want all books to be published, I can definitely understand the banning of or decision not to publish a certain writing if they are really against general morals, for example a manual on how to dismember a cat, or books that spread hate. In all honesty though, people who would write something like that should be censored from the world anyways, and so should their writing.
Love and peace and warm, fuzzy kitties, Kar <3
Love and peace and warm, fuzzy kitties, Kar <3
Friday, 5 September 2014
First Post : True Grit and Determination & A Little About Me
Let me tell you about grit. I have it. REAL grit. I can push myself through any workout. No matter how tough, no matter how much my arms shake or how many times I puke, I WILL finish that work out. I can push myself through any race situation. The half-way flags may just be coming out, and I may be tired, but I will NOT pull in to the pits and give in. I WILL push through the next 10 laps, and continue to race over the pavement at 280km/h hour with my body in an anaerobic state. I WILL finish the race, at 98% of my max heart rate, and I WILL try to win.
That grit? I can't use it when it comes to a school setting. It simply isn't important enough to me. Just because I know I can do the task at hand really well, doesn't mean I'm going to do it with that same passion that the person who isn't so good at the task but wants a good mark will. Actually, I may not even do it at all. I lack motivation to do these things, as to me, they don't add up to the big picture.
That's why Angela Lee Duckworth has a hit a major point in her research. I was always that kid that was smart but didn't perform so well. I wasn't motivated. I feel like there are a lot of kids out there like that, and that it is very important to develop that grit for school and work in these children. The only thing that motivated me when I was younger was seeing the "stupid" kids do better than me. That was infuriating and I absolutely positively could not have it be like that. So to have today's kids grow up to be successful, we need to teach these kids to push through the things they don't want to do and to be motivated towards doing well in the future.
In this blog post I am also supposed to introduce myself. Well, I do a lot of supposedly cool things, at least that's what people tell me. I am a photographer with a registered business, who has had her photos published in a variety of Canadian and American publications. I am a motorcycle racer. I have been racing for 5 years and have road raced motorcycles with three different organizations and in three different racing championships, including the most presitigious national championship, the CSBK Canadian Superbike Championship. I have raced all over Canada, including the provinces of Nova Scotia, Alberta, Quebec, and Ontario. I am an equestrian. I have been riding horses and competing in shows of different levels since I was four years old. I currently ride and compete on a quarterhorse mare that I lease named Misty at a 'A' level jumper barn in Puslinch. Apart from these three very major things in my life, I also wrestle on our schools wrestling team, snowboard, paint, and draw, all fairly well.
Apart from the things that most people know me for, who am I really?
I am Karolina Pelc, I am 18 years old, and I am a grade 12+ (yuck) student here at Lourdes.
I love animals. I have two Indian Ringneck parrots, a very large Spanish Mastiff dog, and a teeny tiny black cat at home. I love food. I also love to sleep, and work out, and I love music. Sometimes I get really tired of having to live up to all the cool things I do, and sometimes I just want to be that normal girl that comes home from school and sleeps for a few hours, instead of that busy photographer girl who comes home from school and has 8,653 photos waiting for her to edit from her last shoot. But that's life.
That grit? I can't use it when it comes to a school setting. It simply isn't important enough to me. Just because I know I can do the task at hand really well, doesn't mean I'm going to do it with that same passion that the person who isn't so good at the task but wants a good mark will. Actually, I may not even do it at all. I lack motivation to do these things, as to me, they don't add up to the big picture.
That's why Angela Lee Duckworth has a hit a major point in her research. I was always that kid that was smart but didn't perform so well. I wasn't motivated. I feel like there are a lot of kids out there like that, and that it is very important to develop that grit for school and work in these children. The only thing that motivated me when I was younger was seeing the "stupid" kids do better than me. That was infuriating and I absolutely positively could not have it be like that. So to have today's kids grow up to be successful, we need to teach these kids to push through the things they don't want to do and to be motivated towards doing well in the future.
In this blog post I am also supposed to introduce myself. Well, I do a lot of supposedly cool things, at least that's what people tell me. I am a photographer with a registered business, who has had her photos published in a variety of Canadian and American publications. I am a motorcycle racer. I have been racing for 5 years and have road raced motorcycles with three different organizations and in three different racing championships, including the most presitigious national championship, the CSBK Canadian Superbike Championship. I have raced all over Canada, including the provinces of Nova Scotia, Alberta, Quebec, and Ontario. I am an equestrian. I have been riding horses and competing in shows of different levels since I was four years old. I currently ride and compete on a quarterhorse mare that I lease named Misty at a 'A' level jumper barn in Puslinch. Apart from these three very major things in my life, I also wrestle on our schools wrestling team, snowboard, paint, and draw, all fairly well.
Apart from the things that most people know me for, who am I really?
I am Karolina Pelc, I am 18 years old, and I am a grade 12+ (yuck) student here at Lourdes.
I love animals. I have two Indian Ringneck parrots, a very large Spanish Mastiff dog, and a teeny tiny black cat at home. I love food. I also love to sleep, and work out, and I love music. Sometimes I get really tired of having to live up to all the cool things I do, and sometimes I just want to be that normal girl that comes home from school and sleeps for a few hours, instead of that busy photographer girl who comes home from school and has 8,653 photos waiting for her to edit from her last shoot. But that's life.
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