Chapter 2

I think this is telling us that we should be careful about placing labels on things. Things like beautiful and important, because that means other things must be not beautiful and not important.

This reminds me of the book the giver, where pain is taken away but no one is really happy. Can one feel real happiness if they have never felt or known unhappiness? I am happy. Or at least I think I have felt real happiness but have I felt pain? I know what pain is. I know what must feel like is that enough to be able to feel happy?

Acts without doing anything, teachers without saying anything.

If you tell your kids not to steal or lie or hit but then you spank them and you lie about their age so they get a child plays into the movie theater or you fudge a little bit on your time clock at work then your actions are speaking louder than words.

Be the person you want others to be the true be real be honest just be others will notice. Sometimes I think others may not want to be my friend because they see the truth and reflects in them but they don’t want to admit.

I don’t think you need to constantly tell someone how to behave how to be good. I think you just act that way and others see you acting that way. That’s how you can teach without saying anything.

When her work is done, she forgets it. That is why it last forever.

At first I wasn’t sure why she had to forget it. I think it has to do with not identifying with the final product and have that as who you are. For instance Anna, she’s a dancer and she dances but if she identifies herself and labels herself as a dancer only, Then if she gets injured or can no longer dance, then her identity has been stripped from her.