User:Aelee1

Note: The following essay was assigned so the students could practice their editing and also consider biases, which is part of their Wikipedia assignment. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:22, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

The time when I learned to like something
Starting from September 2017 I have lived by myself to go to school. It came as an offer from my stepdad to all of my siblings and I that if we go back to school he would offer a house for all of us to live in together for free. I was the only one who took up the offer of returning to finish my education and in the end came out with living alone. I have always enjoyed the thought of having my own house and privacy when I was a younger individual and never thought anything of it to be scary. On my first night alone I did have some fear of any paranormal activity occurring, even though I have never witnessed any occurrences or felt some kind of odd vibes, the horror and suspense movies have inflicted my brain that there is always something wondering around by you. The feeling of being a lone has now been more of a scary thought and changed my perspective of having a house of my own from something positive to negative. I knew that I really shouldn't be scared of anything until something has actually happened that I can witness instead of basing things of that were rehearsed on the screen. So I put the phrase "I shouldn't be scared" into my head and had the idea of adding color to the house for a more positive vibe. In the next couple of months of living in my house, I have already bought a lot of house hold items and miscellaneous to make the place feel more like a home. With the house feeling more cheery it felt happy to walk around the rooms without thinking of anything scary. Over time my fear eased up as I wasn't putting scary thoughts in my head and the fact of living by myself became to be something that I started to enjoy.

The fear I had before was more like a fantasy that I have put into my head that has no hard facts I can explain to be true since I have never had personal experiences with paranormal activity. I was scared of things based off on stuff I have seen playing on movies and going a long with the large crowd who believe in things like this without connecting it on personal experiences. A relation between my experience of learning to like something and the article "Why Facts Dont Change Our Minds" by Elizabeth Kolbert, shows that I followed a belief that a large majority group believed without facts or personal experiences which affected the way I have lived. I will still believe in paranormal activity and have the thought in the back of my mind that there will always be an occurrence happening but until I become a witness, that will be when I can truly support this idea.