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Biography: The End of My World... NOT

When you're in high school, you think every single thing that happens is important into shaping you. I was no exception. All my life, I was a dancer. I started doing competitive dance was a young age and I thought I had my future figured out. I was either going to be a professional dancer or live out my fantasy of trying out for So You Think You Can Dance. Once I entered high school, dance took over my life. My freshman and sophomore years, I still did competitive dance in addition to joining my high school's dance team. Junior year was different. Once I was an upperclassman, I had the opportunity to become a leader on my team. It was meant for the more advanced girls who not only wanted to showcase their dance skill but also their leadership skills. So junior year tryouts came and went and I was a junior lieutenant. My life was great and I was preparing for senior year tryouts. It was between me and this other girl for the top officer position and the number 1 leader on the te...

Reading Notes: Legends of Krishna, Part B

Brahma found Krishna sharing food with cowherd friends amusing. Brahma had kidnapped the cows and Krishna's friends. Krishna wanted to teach him a lesson and created the stolen cows and cowherds out of himself and returned to the village. No one knew that they weren't real. Brahma then acknowledged Krishna's divinity. Hastin was a great, violent cow. Balram wanted to kill Hastin, but Krishna told him that was not a good idea. Krishna challenged that he would ride Hastin by the next full moon. All warned Krishna against this but he didn't listen. Every night for a month, Krishna got closer to Hastin. By the next full moon, Krishna achieved riding Hastin and calming him. This is the lesson of kindness that Krishna taught. "The ultimate strength" (STORY) Yashoda refused to let Krishna marry Nadha. Krishna could not marry Nadha as he was the saviour of Dharma. Krishna learned that Yashoda was not his real mother. Kamsa was still aware that Krishna had not be...

Reading Notes: Legends of Krishna, Part A

The videos done by Epified tell the story of Krishna. It talks about all his enemies, friends, and on lookers of his life. Krishna's story begins after the birth of the Pandava brothers. Kamsa was a cruel ruler. His cousin, Devaki, married Vasudev. Kamsa was told the 8th child born from the couple would be a slayer. To save himself, Kamsa wanted to kill them, but rather placed them into prison. Kamsa decided to kill all their children. He killed 6 of their children. The 7th child was transported to Rohini, Vasudev's first wife. People thought Devaki was suffering a miscarriage. The 8th child was the incarnation of Vishnu. Although Vishnu was a divine being, Kamsa still caught word about the 8th child, the slayer being born. The guards left Vasudev's prison unlocked and he left with his son. The voice that told him to leave the cell told him to go to the Yamuna. He needed to cross the river and a serpent protected them both to cross the raging waters. On the other side o...