{"id":2447,"date":"2016-10-25T17:00:32","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T21:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/nwcenter\/?post_type=questionslibrary&#038;p=2447"},"modified":"2025-02-18T14:17:46","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T22:17:46","slug":"im-charge-celebrations","status":"publish","type":"questionslibrary","link":"https:\/\/plato-philosophy.org\/questionslibrary\/im-charge-celebrations\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m in Charge of Celebrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>What is the difference between loneliness and being alone?<\/li>\n<li>Is it ever possible to be totally alone?<\/li>\n<li>Do we have control over whether or not we feel lonely? Is loneliness a choice?<\/li>\n<li>How do we connect to the natural landscape, our surroundings, and changes in seasons? What does this connection look like?<\/li>\n<li>Is something beautiful even if we do not notice it? Do we have to notice something in order for it to be beautiful?<\/li>\n<li>Why do we choose to remember certain things and not others?<\/li>\n<li>Is it our choice as to what we remember?<\/li>\n<li>Is it possible to remember something exactly as it was?<\/li>\n<li>When describing the celebration called The Time of Falling Stars, the girl in the story recounts, \u201cThe strange thing was, I met a man who told me he had seen it too while he was lying by a campfire five hundred miles away. He said he did not sleep again that night. Suddenly it seemed that we two spoke a language no one else could understand.\u201d Does language always have to be based on tangible words? Can language be a feeling or emotion, or some other medium?<\/li>\n<li>How do shared experiences, even when not experienced physically with one another, have the power to break down barriers and transcend differences? Other examples?<\/li>\n<li>Why do different people celebrate different things, or the same things?<\/li>\n<li>How do we form community and decide who is included?<\/li>\n<li>What makes something a celebration?<\/li>\n<li>Who gets to decide what to celebrate and when to celebrate? Who is in charge?<\/li>\n<li>Why do celebrations exist, and why are they important?<\/li>\n<li>What makes something worthy of a celebration?<\/li>\n<li>What celebrations do you have in your life? When? With whom?<\/li>\n<li>What is similar or different between the girl\u2019s celebrations and your own?<\/li>\n<li>Have you ever put yourself in charge of a celebration?<\/li>\n<li>Can you think of an unexpected experience you have had that you would want to make into a celebration? How would you celebrate it?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>Contributed\u00a0by\u00a0Maia Bernstein<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2449,"template":"","dqcategories":[377,378],"class_list":["post-2447","questionslibrary","type-questionslibrary","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","dqcategories-aesthetics","dqcategories-social-and-political-philosophy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>I\u2019m in Charge of Celebrations - PLATO<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"I\u2019m in Charge of Celebrations - PLATO\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"What is the difference between loneliness and being alone? Is it ever possible to be totally alone? 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