Digital Voices

“I Believe”

Lindsay’s Speech

I believe that what goes around comes around. What does that mean? This is a Cliché which happens to mean Karma. Karma, which comes from the root “Kri”, means “To do”. This means that you are the architect of your own destiny and you do what you choose, you build your future and you choose your actions.

You have made and thought out millions of different karmas everyday, and in only one day you create a lot of new karma through your thoughts, words and actions. Sometimes it is positive, sometimes negative but unfortunately, it’s usually negative because you constantly have disturbing thoughts and emotions which not frequently result in anything positive, but in wrongful actions. You may act lovingly towards your family, this is your duty and because you should, and suddenly you will gain love and trust from your relatives and you will become more involved with your family. “If you want love, give unconditional love”.

But you have to think and remember that thoughts and words are also to be considered a part of Karma as well. Everything you do and everything that you say will be apart of karma. To desire is also considered as well. If you have negative emotions such as anger, envy, hatred, jealousy, so we need to remember that each of our physical, emotional, verbal or mental actions have their repercussions and you need to be very aware of these emotions and realize that they may have an affect on others. For example, when I get into trouble for something that I didn’t mean to do and my parents punish me for it and I get really angry about it, I usually take it out on the closes person to me by responding with a negative attitude. These emotions may emerge or affect us everyday. This will also consider if you have negative actions (karmas) such as, lying, stealing, and criticizing, and then there will be terrible consequences for you sooner or later. Whether it is suffering, illnesses, calamities, you will get what you deserve. But needing to be remembered that you generate over 60,000 thoughts a day. So keep in mind that positive thoughts will lead to positive words and actions. This way you will not have to worry about the negative karmas.

1. I understand now how you use podcast. I understand that people use podcast to get more informational feedback from people all over the country. I noticed that the technology is more advanced for the podcast, and the sounds people use to make the speech more interesting for you to listen to.

1. I listened to one of the This I Believe essays. It was “A Feeling of Wildness”. I chose this essay because it sounded fun and crazy and very interesting. What really stood out to me about the speech is that it sounded free and just made you think that you could let out for a little bit and relax.

1. What i noticed about the introduction speech is that it was a different form of speaking from the NPR speeches.