[Alana]

In life “truth, beauty, and the meaning of life” will come up in conversations and personally I do start these kinds of conversations. It starts with something in my life that happens or might happen, so I go to people that I trust to talk about solutions or help. I think it’s important that people have meaningful conversations because life has curve balls and ups and downs. Starting off the conversations isn’t necessarily weird or awkward as I used to think it would be. Sometimes we never know someone’s life and you bringing up something happening to you helps them talk about maybe struggles or successes they’ve been holding in. You never really know what other people go through but it all starts with a few words that leads to different ways to think about life.

I’ve noticed when I ask more meaningful questions or people’s truths I’ve grown to learn more and more about myself, the way I think, and the way I view things after. A lot of times no one wants to bring up conversations because it could start arguments or confusion that leads to awkwardness, but as someone who does start the conversations its really eye opening to have the awkward moments because your learning. It takes a few words and a little bit of time to learn something new. Meaningful conversations are influential and I will always bring up the unspoken if no one else will because it’s more important to get to know someone and their beliefs then speaking to someone for a couple minutes and never know why they think, speak, or act a certain way.