Questions.. ~ Aveen

‘A question is a linguistic expression used to make a request for information, or the request made using such an expression’ - Wikipedia

Hey Everyone!

So my name is Aveen and I blog on my blog called 'The Random Life of Aveen' A random name for a random person I guess. I'm 17 (18 in September!) and I live in Ireland. 

So this week’s theme is ‘Questions’ I feel that you as the reader are probably asking a lot of questions whilst reading this blog post. Perhaps questioning why you clicked on this post in the first place as it just seems to be random sentences and paragraphs compiled together, making no sense to either you or me writing this. 

When you think about it, we spend most of our lives questioning things, until we find the answer. Once we find the answer, we slowly stop questioning what we did not know the answer to. Personally, the main thing I question is obviously the future. It’s something I wonder about an awful lot, particularly as my future is currently at a metaphorical crossroad as I near the end of my time in secondary school (Next June I'll be sitting the Leaving Cert) and ultimately prepare for deciding on a college course which will decide my ‘future’ and my career choices.

However we don’t only just question things in the future tense, although that's where most of my questions are lately. We question our actions in our past and present too. We all wish we didn't do foolish things in our younger years or even just ten minutes ago. You could be sitting in school or work, daydreaming and suddenly think of something awkward or embarrassing you did and just think ''Why did I do that?'' Something which is of a regular occurrence in my life. I was deep in thought just last week and had a mini 'flashback' to when I was a child doing embarrassing things. I practically cringed out loud and questioned why I did things as a child! The joys of remembering cringy events.. 

As you can probably tell, I'm not quite sure where this post is going, but questions are a huge part of our lives. We question everything, from ''What's for dinner, Mammy?'' to my personal favourite, ''What am I doing with my life?'' We spend our entire lives asking questions seeking and searching for the answers. As I previously stated, my huge questions at the moment, like many others, relate to my future possibilities which is always fun when you wake up at 2 am after having a dream of receiving your Leaving Cert results! 

However, we don't always find out the answers to all our questions and in all honesty, sometimes I think it's better for our selves to live in bliss or ''ignorance'' of the answer we were craving. We don't need to know every little detail of life, and if we did, I think it would be quite a painful existence. 

I feel I should probably leave this here, my feelings of nostalgia and ''deep'' conversations can become slightly wacky and stray in every direction possible. 

So I shall see you all next week! I genuinely hope you liked this blog post, let me know down in the comments! 

Stay Strong, Happy and Fearless!

Aveen xx

This Week's Topic : Questions

question

ˈkwɛstʃ(ə)n/

noun

1. 1.

   a sentence worded or expressed so as to elicit information.

   "we hope this leaflet has been helpful in answering your questions"

   synonyms:

   enquiry, query; More
2. 2.

   a matter requiring resolution or discussion.

   "the question of local government funding worried ministers"

verb

1. 1.

   ask (someone) questions, especially in an official context.

   "four men were being questioned about the killings"

I have no idea how to start this but welcome to Collab Sunflower ! 

I originally tweeted the idea of a summer collaboration (collab for short.) blog during a #tbloggers at the end of May and I thought it would give a lot of us something to pass time with over the course of summer 2014, Whether your reading or writing this. 

You'll learn soon that there is a topic for each week of Collab Sunflower and since this week's topic is 'Questions' here are some answers to some questions you may be thinking of !

What is a 'collab blog' ? 

Well a collab blog is a blog where several bloggers write one blog together and there is typically one post per day and each blogger has a particular day they are to blog on. I haven't seen many collab blogs around but I do know that 'collab channels' were a huge craze on YouTube around 2-4 years ago and although some such as O2L for example still exist, A lot of them died out. 

Is this blog permanent or will it end on a certain date ? 
This collab is only for the summer and will finish before the end of August.

How many people are involved in this blog and when will they blog ?

There are eleven of us involved in this collab and there are links to all their blogs along the sidebar ! 

Depending on the blogger, 'Collabers' are posting either once a week or once every two weeks. 

There will be at least one post every day excluding weekends and a post announcing the coming week's topic will be shared on a Sunday which will be written by the collaber who suggested the chosen topic. 

What type of posts will be shared on this blog ? 

 All kinds of things will be discussed on this blog ! They will have some kind of connection to the particular week's topic but topics in general will hopefully be quite versatile. 

Back to chatting about this week's topic, I chose it as I thought it would be an interesting discussion for the first week since we'll all be sharing our first posts. You would have seen the three definitions of the word 'question' at the beginning of the post and in my opinion this word covers such a variety of definitions and the action of it can change a definition creating a definition and so on. The word 'question' can become something quite lighthearted or something quite deep and I'm guessing that many of the posts this week will be slightly deep.

We use the word 'question' every day and it is honestly a word I am fascinated by ! In History, The Renaissance was the beginning of the modern world - A world that wouldn't exist as it does today if ways of the past had not been questioned. If questions had not been asked, Our knowledge wouldn't be so broad and wide, Countries would not be independent of one another, Religions would not have developed and human rights would not exist like they do today. It's easy though to forget that a few hundred years ago and even one hundred years ago in Western Civilisation, Many questions were forbidden and many people were afraid to ask certain questions and now we live in a Western World where we're allowed the freedom of speech and free opinions. In light of this, It's important we remember that in many parts of the world such as the Third World, There is still a lack of human rights and the citizens of those countries are not given the freedom of speech to question the lack of rights and other issues. 

So after that long paragraph I really hope you enjoy this week's posts on Collab Sunflower ! 

You can read my blog over at daintysprinkles.blogspot.com.

Tomorrow's posts come from myself and possibly Sophie and Jane who post every two weeks. 

Grace x