My Friend’s Blog

My friend has just created a blog of her own called Experience. In this blog you will find various posts about past experiences, that not only taught her viewers and herself lessons, but hilarious moments we will all be able to relate to. So please check out her website srisubi.blogspot.com  and give her your support, she will really appreciate it.

Nebula

So since last year, I have been writing a novel called  Nebula. It is about two teens who will go into space. This is the summary I wrote before I wrote the book. Enjoy!

As I looked up from my bay window, I saw the billions of stars dotting the night sky, and the moon high above, giving light to the ground underneath it, as if it was a mother giving it’s child warmth from the cold. And as I watched comets fly by I continued staring upward at the night sky, my yearning was so strong that I instantly forgot where I was, I blocked out the sound around me, as if deep in thought. My best friend Miles was beside me as well. It was easy to tell that he was thinking of the same thing.

I‘m just your ordinary 14 year-old, who wants to be an astronaut. But I’m not those types of people who just say that they want to be it and do nothing about it.  I mean come on! I actually do something about it. I work hard to reach my goals and my dreams. Especially this one. I study books, go on websites, sometimes I skip lunch and spend my free period, in the library reading and checking out books about astronomy, the universe, and books about the Sun and the other planets. To be an astronaut, you have to know these three subjects. Math, biological and physical science, and engineering. Luckily I have learned and studied every book or website, giving ANY information about one or all of these three subjects.

People say that Miles and I are crazy to want to go into space, saying it’s dangerous, and that I could possibly kill myself just lasting an hour up there.( That is scientifically inaccurate thank you very much.) I may be shy and quiet, but I have something that they didn’t believe I had. Hope. Being an astronaut was my dream ever since I looked up at the stars for the first time. Ever since then, I never gave up on my dreams. A few days ago, the most unpredictable thing happened, and it changed my life forever. I’m Alya, and I believe.

Open Your Eyes

So if you have been reading my blog ever since it started, then you probably know that I care very strongly about the fact that, most people underestimate the world. We live in a place full of beauty and exhilaration. And yet we waste it away by spending our lives in a bubble. A bubble that only lets in things that are connected to things such as social media, makeup, and selfies. People now days don’t go past their comfort zones, they don’t even consider stepping outside to look out at the beautiful world that appears in front of them. So I encourage you to open your eyes.

Open Your Eyes

By Kanmani Harivenkatesh

Open your eyes, there’s a whole world out there, put down your fear and open your heart, look out the door, and smell the fresh air.  ‘Cause there’s a whole world out there just waiting for you to open your eyes and take a deep breath.

There’s a place that I know, that will always be in my heart, a place that opens up to me and says “Come here and have an adventure with me, please, have a heart.

Because it is not only a world of buildings and factories. But a place full beaches and ocean breezes creating a home for me.

I know a world that’s just the tree’s and the sky, calming my soul and inspiring my eyes. A place that will keep my troubles away, and make me be another soul with the sky and the renegades.

  • Kanmani Harivenkatesh

Shine in my Shadow

The dictionary definition for the word inspire is, “fill (someone) with the urge or ability to do or feel something, especially to do something creative.” My goal for this year is to do so.  Steve Jobs, President Obama, Martin Luther King Jr. These are all amazing people, right down to their heart. But the people who inspire me the most are the people who ask themselves, “What can I do to make a difference?” Those are the people who inspire, those are the people who are pure. Those are the people who not only inspire me, but they inspire the people who say, “There’s no hope in trying.” So I hope this poem I wrote inspires you to shine for someones shadow.

Shine in my Shadow

By Kanmani Harivenkatesh

Be the light in the dark of fear.

Be the sun in the rain of hate, and poison.

Be the calm in the hurricane of pain and panic.

Be the hope for the forgotten.

Be at peace in the war of unforgiveness.

Be the shine for someone’s shadow.

Be the person people look up to, to be inspired.

 

  • Kanmani Harivenkatesh

 

“The ocean is calling.” – Moana

I recently saw the latest movie produced by Disney, “Moana.” And there is only one word to describe my emotions towards it: Incredible. It was absolutely incredible. The story line, the characters, the animations, the music. EVERYTHING. But what I like most about this movie is, it represents rebellion. What I mean is, this movie does not show a girl that does what she is told, she follows what her heart says. Instead of showing a princess that only cares about dresses and tiaras. It represents a girl with potential and a heart.  This is a message that needs to be spread among the world. Now days girls are not following their heart, but their phone screen. This is also a great movie for people of all ages if your 5 or 50, you will love this movie.

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“Think Different.” – Steve Jobs

IWhen I was in fourth grade, my dad had just bought Steve Job’s biography. For a while it just sat in the corner of our book shelf, it stood there like a lonesome statue in the rain. Then one day I stared at it for a while. My dad then asked me from the spot he was sitting in, “You think you could read that?” there was a long pause. “I think you could.” We both stood there in silence. My eyes wide as I touched the binding of the book. Then I grabbed it, carefully. Then I sat down the smell of freshly printed book hitting my face. I opened the book, I read the sleeve of the book. Then I turned to chapter one. For hours I read. I brought with me to the dinner and read it under the table. I brought it with me to bed and read it when everyone was asleep. I brought it with me to school and read it during recess and lunch time. One day my friend asked me, “Are you still reading that book, why are you still reading it?”  I replied calmly with “Because, I can.”  It took me days to finish that huge book, with it having 571 pages to read(the rest being acknowledgments).

Even before reading the biography, I still thought that Steve Jobs was a person to look up to. After reading his biography and found out more about his backstory, I found that lot of incredible are known to have hard and tough life stories. For example, Steve Jobs was an adopted child. His biological parents decided then and there that they wanted a girl instead. It hurt my heart so much. I couldn’t imagine what a little Steve Jobs ‘s  reaction would be like. But he did find out when he was just 7 years old.

Though Steve Jobs lived a rough life,  he grew up to be a inspiration to not only techies, but adults and children alike. Creating an atmosphere for people around the world, to create, aspire, and achieve. That is the atmosphere I am known for living. This is the atmosphere that people around the world are known for living in. This was the atmosphere Steve Jobs was known for creating.

Over the years, the more I learned about technology, science, and inventions, the more I realized, you don’t have to be a genius to create something that will change the world. Steve Jobs, though was a genius, followed his own words and continued to “stay hungry and foolish.”( – Steve Jobs.) So in conclusion lets all remember to be our own person and, “Think different.”

“Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”

  • Steve Jobs
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“Yes we can, yes we did.” – President Barack Obama

I remember when I was in preschool, I saw on our TV,  a tall man speaking to a large crowd. He was saying a lot of words I didn’t understand because I didn’t know what was going on. I remember that I kept watching, I asked my dad “What is he talking about?” Before my dad could say anything, the man said ” Change happens because the American people demand it, because they rise up and insist on new ideas and new leadership, a new politics for a new time.” Those words I understood.

Those words were the ones that would bring the nation together, that would change the lives of millions. And they actually did. President Barack Obama was always such and inspirational person to me. He was kind, loyal, smart, he was someone of great qualities, he led the nation with compassion, hospitality. But one word to describe this incredible man is, kindhearted. He understands the way life goes for one hundred million people that live on the streets,  and with his wife by his side, he will do everything in their power to do the best to help.

This is the man who will reply to you personally if you write to him. Over the summer I wrote the president a letter, without telling me, my parents actually sent it. I didn’t know because I didn’t think I would get a response. He is a very busy man, I didn’t think he would take the time to do it. But he did. This man, he believes that, if our nation was divided, we wouldn’t be able to create the America we all now and love. So always remember these words “Yes we can, yes we did.” – President Barack Obama

Thank you Mr.President, for everything you have done for this nation and all it’s people. 

“We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.”

  • President Barack Obama
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“I have a dream.”

In honor of Martin Luther King Jr.  I am writing about him in the category of “Inspirational People.” I am not just writing about him as a famous idol. But I am writing about him as just a regular man, who had a dream. A dream for everyone to have the freedom of equality and have the same rights for everyone.  One of my life motto’s are “If you don’t do all you could to be heard, then you will just be another brick in the wall.” Luckily he not only wanted to be heard, but he wanted to be listened to. He wanted people to listen to what he had to say, about segregation, about equal rights, about his dream. “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation, where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but the content of their character.” With those historical words said, he lived to be one of the many people who stood up for what was right. Without him we wouldn’t be living in the country we now call free. So lets all take a moment to honor one of the nations many people who spoke for our nation.

 

“Commit yourself to the noble struggle for equal rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in.”

  • Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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So, here’s my backstory…

So you might be wondering. “Why did she name her blog, BackStory?” Well, my blog is based on my past experiences, lessons I’ve learned, basically how I came to be the person I am today.  Everything has a back story to it.  A tree, a painting,  even a piece of music. Without the past, how will you shape your future? How will you learn from your mistakes, if you don’t make any? How will you know who you are, without even knowing your own past… Each country has a religion, a culture. Each culture has come with a story behind it. How it came to be, why it was celebrated, why we do it. My parents immigrated to America, from India, and each holiday, celebration, anything, comes with a legend, story, a tale. It not only brings curiosity among you, but you will learn the purpose of it.