Austin Elmore
Mrs. Wilhelmus/Wagener
English AP
9 August 2013
The
Beginning of Origins
Sophie Amundsen
was a normal girl until the day she received two letters in the mail, one
asking, “Who are you?” and the other, “Where does the world come from?” When
thinking about these two questions in depth you cannot be positive about a
right or wrong answer, it is all about what you personally believe.
The first question
Sophie received asking, “Who are you?” can be interpreted in many ways. For
example you could be being asked about your name or your background, or maybe
the inquisitor is looking for what makes you, you. In response to this I would
say, I am me, everything you can and cannot see makes me who I am. My facial structure, my height, hair,
and weight make up who I am in the physical world just as my brain makes up who
I am mentally. Some people who
think more philosophically than myself may go on to ask what makes a person who
they are. Is it their spirit or is it their brain? If you hooked up electrodes
to the brain in such a way that it could still think and rationalize, would you
as a person still exist? Same with the contrary, if there was just a body with
no brain would that body still be a person? If I had to describe who I am I
would say that I am an outgoing person who hopes they have a bright future in
basketball or chemical science. If this questions intends to ask what makes me
who I am I would say my experiences, my family, my friends, the stories I have
heard, the places I have seen. Too many things exist that have shaped who I am
as a person that it is impossible to make a list on a sheet of paper.
“Where does the
world come from?” The second question is much trickier than the first because
it has many more possibilities and thus requires much more research and
reasoning. The world could have come from the Sun, a higher power, could have
been born from a random gathering of atoms, or maybe it is eternal and has
always been here, many theories exist. Though we may not ever know where the
world truly came from my personal beliefs lie with the scientifical approach. I
believe that the world came from the Sun because I can physically see it. It is
difficult for me to comprehend a gathering of atoms or any of the other
theories because the chances are too slim for me to understand fully. I feel as
if you can see something it must be real. I can see the Sun and I can see the
Earth therefore I link their existence together and make an assumption that
something must have happened to separate enough rock or gas to create the world
that we currently exist in.
