Sophia Bejar, PD8, 9/23/20, Day C

Sophia Bejar

Modern Mythology

9/23/20

Period 8

At this current point in time, what specific goal(s) do you have for yourself? Why?



Right now we live in strange times, where this pandemic has left us in uncharted territory breaking us out of our usual work routines. It’s left us with a lot more time than we previously had before at home, and since the start of this opportunity I’ve taken this time to develop and improve more skills. Specifically, by the end of this quarantine is to improve my art, and to have decent experience in skills like baking from scratch, and playing piano. While being in quarantine has us away from our friends much to my detriment, I’m going to try and make the most of it and come out of it a better version of myself.




How do you demonstrate resilience towards achieving this goal? (or these goals?)

Recently, besides attempting to make art pieces at least once a week, I’ve gotten into animation. I’ve started creating small gifs with my art which takes a lot more time and effort, as instead of a still image it’s creating multiple frames to cycle through and form a moving image. It’s been harder but way more rewarding when it’s finished. Through just trying to work at these skills, like starting to improvise with the piano, creating small tunes instead of just learning a song I’ve been learning and getting more comfortable with the fields I aim to improve in.




How does the world around you affect your perception of this goal? (or these goals?)

A lot of the times it feels as though accomplishments in art and music aren’t seen with as much value compared to science and math, so sometimes I feel strange for spending more time cultivating these skills versus the latter. However I’ve been truly enjoying creating and it’s been a way for me to express myself during a time where we’ve been stuck indoors with just ourselves. As a result I’ve also been on the internet a lot more because of the connections to others it provides, and there I can see that there are others like me who also like to create that I can talk with. Through this I’ve felt more confidence in improving the skills that I’m passionate about, and leads me to work harder to achieve my goals.