"The world may bring us down to our knees, but what matters most is how well we walk through the fire"_Josh Samman Our last blog post for this class was made optional. I still wanted to write one but up until Tuesday I didn't know what should I write about. During Tuesday's class Dr. Mangini told us to break into groups, read out Life-Choice Memories out loud to each other and talk about them. He also gave us the option to go do so outside. When we read them and talked about them, everyone's Memoir had something dark in it. Suddenly our group went from reading memoirs into quickly talking about things we struggled with in life! So it kind of helped me decide what my final blog post should be about, few years back I went through the roughest year of my life, it was just a hellstorm. I went through a series of bad events at a young age and I started to question If it will ever stop! shortly after it, I saw a youtube clip of a brutal MMA knockout. Brutal enough to generate curiosity in me to look up the winner. I'm was curious because of the way he screamed celebrating his victory. So I scanned few articles that talked about him, and I picked up that he had a rough life, And he has a memoir! And it went from me watching silly sports videos on youtube, into buying the memoir that gave me motivation and purpose in life after my struggle. It showed me that no matter how bad things go for me, there are people who go through worse and still manage to turn their lives around and succeed. The book called The Housekeeper: Love, Death & Prizefighting by Journalist and Mixed Martial Artist Josh Samman, In this book we get to learn about the journey of a Teenager from Tallahassee, Florida. as he opens up about his struggles growing up with a single mom, into having to live alone at the age of 16, his struggles with addiction, suicidal thoughts, Career threatening injuries and the death of people he cares about including the love of his life, who gave him a purpose to succeed for. a great story for redemption that helped many people to get through their struggles in life, aim to succeed and believe in their ability. Sadly Josh died few months after publishing his book and didn't get to enjoy seeing how many people his book helped as much as he wanted to. I decided to make this blog about this book because it had a huge and a positive impact on me. When I read a book, I enjoy drawing shitty sketches of how I visualize things in that book and surround it with quotes that stood out for me as I read. Here's the one Sketch I still have that relates to that book (Feel free to make fun of my trash hand-drawing skills lol) Alongside of the book cover and his photos!
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Majd LabbadMy name is Majd, Welcome to my blog page, this blog section will be a mix between my class assignments and a peak into my personal life :) Archives
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