Our final assignment in this class was to write a video essay. To me this was a daunting project that I didn't want to have to do. The first part of the assignment was to write a 250 word essay starting with "This course has changed the way I think about..". When it became time for me to start this it brought about a problem for me. I was not sure what I really wanted to write about. I mean there were so many different things in class that had changed my view on something or other. Narrowing my topic down was a challenge for this assignment. I finally decided on writing about how everyone interprets or sees things differently. This was one of the main parts of the course that I really felt impacted me. Borg discusses how many people see things in the Bible differently and I agreed with him. So many people have different opinions and understandings its no wonder many don't get along. This course not only changed the way I think about things, but with Borgs book it showed me why exactly so many people have different views. Once I decided that this was going to be my topic I had a hard time cutting it down to make the word limit. It seemed for me that I couldn't quite make my point with out being very wordy. As I began to gather pictures for this video, I started observing my surrounding area much more. I ended up taking so many pictures of my surrounding area that I had too many for my video. It was interesting to walk around campus and take these pictures because it did show me how many people can see things differently. I mean I went and took a new picture of the same tree every time I passed it. By doing this I saw it in so many different lights, it was amazing. This proves my point about different views. I mean this was one tree and I alone saw it several different ways. One tree, seen in many different ways is a lot different then the Bible seen in its many different ways.
Even by doing this assignment I felt that I learned even more. The experience of taking the pictures further helped show how many people can see things differently. Hopefully I will be able to show others in my class what I have learned and how many things are different to many people.
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