"Born Rich"

Born Rich is a documentary video about kids who are born rich and don't need to worry about money and getting a job. The film was made by Jamie Johnson, a rich kid himself through the Johnson and Johnson's company.

In the film almost all of the kids were different from me. They don't have to worry about money, going poor, getting what they want, doing what they want, ect. They get everything by the time they are born. They can buy anything they want, can ride helicopters, ect. I believe that is the main differences because everyday I wonder if I will have enough money to buy this or buy that or how much money loan I'll need for college. The kids in the film don't need to worry about that.

The similarity I found was the information about not sharing money. I grew up with my mother telling me that money is a discussion only in the house and with the family. The kids on the video were very wary about sharing information about their wealth and money, but every family has that issues about sharing that type of information. Also one of the kids is going to college and living the life of a regular college kid, he chose living on campus over living in a mansion that could be close by. I was surprise at this because I never knew a rich kid wanted to be so much like a regular college kid. That part was very interesting.

While watching the film I noticed that many of the kids get their motivation from the same thing. They are motivated to not make an embarrassment on their family. They know that if they do something wrong, their families will go down with them and they may lose their rights to their family's money. All the kids try to be good children for their parents so they don't get in trouble with the public and to get some of that, if not, all of that money. There are even some kids who said that their parents told them that if they don't work, they will get nothing. So from what I've seen it's their family's money that drives them or motivates them to be good people. I believe my motivation is different because I have to motivate myself, I try not to be motivate by any other way. I motivate myself to get up, go to school, and do my work. Many of my teachers have taught me that I work hard and I know that if I do good in high school and college that my dream of becoming a teacher is one step closer.

Motivation

If you won 319 million dollars, what would you be motivated to do if money was never going to be a concern????

If I won all that money, I believe my life would change very little. I would motivated myself to use the money only for emergencies and for college. I would also motivated myself to use the money for when my mother got older and she would need a new place to live, like in a senior citizen home or something and I would also use the money for insurance for my family. But even though I had money, I would still motivate myself to go to college and get a job because it's my dream to become a teacher. Even though I would have money, I would motivate myself to use the money to go to college and get a job. I would motivated myself to becoming a teacher because it is my dream to teach the younger generation in the area of English and of course there are other reasons, but those are personal. So my life might not be any different because cool cars, new technology, awesome house, don't really appeal to me, I love where I live and I love what I have.

Altered State

Meditation has been a part of my life for a long time. I was taught that meditation can be used to help us see the correct path we want to take and also as a way to relax and think about our wrong doing as well as our rewards. Besides mediation, I have heard of sensory deprive, which is getting rid of one or more of your senses to increase the other 5 five senses, but not permentally destroying those senses.

As a child who is Mayan, I've heard stories of shamans doing this as a way to connect with the spiritual world and the living things around us. Long ago, my ancestors believed that if you enter a cave and went deep into it, you will eventually lose all 5 of your senses to open your 6th. I've heard story about this and that when a person was through with this part of the training, they felt more connected to something and felt more sensative to the things around them. They all said that while in the cave, they could not tell up from down or right to left.

I'm not sure if I really believe in sensory deprivation, but I do know that if you want to become a shaman, it is something that has to be done, while meditation is a technique that is study in my religion and is required for every follower to practice constantly. I like the way of meditation, it makes me feel light and floating. I feel as if I am not where I am sitting or practicing my meditation. I like this way because I can control my thoughts and what I want to think about.

The Lost Hour

I was surprise that while reading the lost hour was how much information we could lose. Teens and adults have difficulty sleeping, I believe because we try to cram things in one day and the more we lose sleep, the more we lose our memory. That was what really impact me while reading the packet. I was also surprised that a study showed that those in 6th grade who did not get enough sleep perfromed at a 4th grade level the next morning. For me, I get about 8.5 hours of sleep so the "lost hour" doesn't effect me but among my peers, I don't really notice anything. I know it's bad, but at this age, it seems normal for a teen to go to bed at like, 1am and I find myself the strange one for going to bed at 9 or 10. But I do see how my peers are tired the next morning and have a hard time concentrating the next day, but eventually they wake up.