PANORAMA - Lorielyn Nabor

"Reading destroys the wall of ignorance and opens up the window for the beauty of creative imagination." Upon reading all the selections, I feel delighted and profited a lot. I can put myself in all the selection and it affected me differently.

The story Silas Marner by George Eliot made me realize that losing something doesn't mean losing everything. I can relate much with this story since I was once a Silas Marner in my own life. I've lost someone important, and I can't explain before why reasons made it happened. The only thing that is clear to me is that, I grew up tired due to the pain and hostilities. I felt dejected and disheartened but someone, like Eppie did to Silas, saved me from the burden. He made me understand that it isn't the end of everything and that there's someone who is willing to give another meaning to my life, someone much better. Now, I am happier and contented. Being a Silas Marner is a great episode that made me into much realizations of the real beauty of life, to suffer once, rise and grow much better. Indeed, once you lost someone or something, more comes in return. 

To appreciate beauty and memory is the essence of the poem I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordworth and it had appealed to me a lot. Appreciating the beauty of nature bring true happiness. It is the only treasure that is free in this world, so as memories. Sometimes, there are happenings in the past that we want to bury and forget, those which caused pain and burden to us. But, we never realized that it is the nature of life. We should not run away from the memories of the past but instead, make them as steeping stone for a better us. We should be like daffodils, tossing our heads in a crowd, a host. We should be united with the nature to fully understand ourselves. 

John Milton brought me back to the biblical world with his Paradise Lost. This story awaken my spiritual being from the fact that there's a Satan that lies in all of us and because of negative forces we are being able to do things that are not humanly. The story also implies that jealousy, would cause no good if taken on the wrong side. Just like Adam and Eve, who have lost their innocence by letting temptation overcome their curious minds, we will be deserted to jeopardy if we let this happen to us also.  If we let this negative forces overcome us, we will be forsaken. Sinners we may be but still, there's someone who is willing to accept us and save us from the hell, the Greatest one - GOD. Let's live righteously and with His glory.

The various stages of life and the importance of making progress by moving on from what one previously knew is the discussion in The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table that precedes "The Chambered Nautilus". In a sense, the poem is an elaboration on this idea, because it focuses on the concept of sealing odd one's previous boundaries to create new larger spaces in which to live and develop. As quoted "grow we must, if we outgrow all that we love," this suggest that there's a need to keep moving and developing as one ages, even if it means that one leaves one's old relationships behind. Oliver Wendell Holmes envisions a process of spiritual and personal progress in which one constantly challenges oneself to become a better person. As we grow up and leave the past behind, we are sometimes being misjudged and our actions misinterpreted. But, we should bare in mind that life itself is an "unresting sea" and the process of spiritual and personal growth facilitated by leaving one's previous situation is a necessary act and an altruistic method of self improvement.

Life is like reading, the more we read the more we gain knowledge, so as, the more experience we undergo, the more realization we take.