Crochet Cosies

Addiction to crochet lately! I've been so enthusiastic about crochet that I do it for hours! This week I did some things I found on Pinterest and looks like they turned out really well...

The pink one it's just 5 rows of simple and double crochets, which you can find here.

The other one looks amazing at night and the pattern is here. 

1984, George Orwell

1984 is a wonderful novel and one that put things in perspective for me; it will make you thing, and argue, and question things which otherwise you wouldn’t even think of. It’s intelligent and just amazing!

When I started reading it I was very skeptic about it and didn’t know what to expect; it starts very slowly and George Orwell describes every single detail about the world that he presents, and to be honest, I stopped reading it for a while…               

The novel talks about a society set in 1984 completely (is it?) different from the one we live in today: every single individual is followed and controlled by the government in all aspects of human life. It presents the life of an individual, who works in the Ministry of Truth, rewriting records and all evidences of facts which were altered by the Party at the present time.

The 3 pillars of Big Brother are:

                Freedom is Slavery: when there’s freedom, there’s no control, and therefore, no stability. People are controlled by the Big Brother. Human life is not supposed to be free, and it’s only purpose is to be controlled and serve somebody else; they are slaves to their government (weapons).

                War is Peace: when we confront somebody else, we don’t question, and think, we just do what we are supposed to do; peace doesn’t exist, because it’s incompatible with the regime. In my point of view, there’s only peace when there’s freedom, and freedom it’s slavery.

                Ignorance is Strength – the less we know, the less we question what is presented to us. If people ignore facts, it’s very easy to control their mind. If we control their mind, a nation is strong, because they have the same beliefs and everyone is the same, therefore, the government will never be questioned.

                These are 3 truths that no one can question, (if they could question anything) and that rule the world of 1984. Some may believe that these are already visible nowadays, but in my opinion and for the sake of this world, I think it won’t be possible, due to the individualism and the freedom granted today. It’s a very time consuming book, since you do have to put it in perspective and compare it with our society. 

"I knew that I had come face to face with someone whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself." 

The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

"It wasn't only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding; above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you."

Atonement by Ian McEwan

Infinite

I think the idea is that every person has to live for his or her own life and then make the choice to share it with other people. You can’t just sit there and put everybody’s lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can’t. You have to do things. I’m going to do what I want to do. I’m going to be who I really am. And I’m going to figure out what that is. And we could all sit around and wonder and feel bad about each other and blame a lot of people for what they did or didn’t do or what they didn’t know. I don’t know. I guess there could always be someone to blame. It’s just different. Maybe it’s good to put things in perspective, but sometimes, I think that the only perspective is to really be there. Because it’s okay to feel things. I was really there. And that was enough to make me feel infinite. I feel infinite.

      Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

When you are born your life is set up to do something, by society, by your parents and family. You will grow up and be shaped by all it’s around you. It may be good or bad, but you can’t escape it; and when they assume you are old enough to start making your own decisions, someday you will look at yourself and what’s around you and ask: what now? And you will be afraid of failure and solitude, afraid of your future, afraid of your feelings– at least I am. One day you will wish to enter your time machine and be a child again, where dreams are reality and sadness is dust.

"Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again." ― C.S. Lewis