Reflections: Sharing Ideas, Inspiring Minds 🌟🗣️- Sunbeam School Lahartara

Artificial Intelligence 🤖 is transforming the world with its smart abilities, from self-driving cars 🚗 to virtual assistants like Alexa and Siri 🎙️. It learns from data 📊 and makes decisions just like humans, but without emotions. On the other hand, animals 🐾 have a rich inner life filled with emotions, communication, and intelligence. Elephants 🐘 mourn their lost ones, dolphins 🐬 recognize themselves in mirrors, and dogs 🐶 express love and loyalty. AI may be powerful, but it cannot feel the warmth of a mother bird 🕊️ feeding her chicks. As technology grows, we must respect both intelligence—artificial and natural—to create a balanced world 🌍.

Sharing our thoughts through reflection helps us connect with others and grow together 🤝. When we express our ideas, we not only learn more but also inspire those around us 🌟. Reflection allows us to look back, understand our experiences, and shape new perspectives 🧠. It encourages creativity, critical thinking, and meaningful discussions 🗣️. Just like a mirror reflects our image, our words reflect our thoughts and emotions 🪞. By sharing reflections, we build a world where knowledge, understanding, and wisdom flow freely 🌍✨.

Sunbeam School Lahartara Boarders

Simplicity - Shilpika Pandey

Poster courtesy Rishona Chopra

Simplicity is such a simple word but is it easy to follow? In this world of materialistic magnetism, how easy is it to adorn simplicity? 

Simplicity is grace, dignity, ability to be yourself in the most natural way, to live life simply, unaffected by others' judgements. 

From the way we converse, wear attire, carry a mobile phone, travel, and exhibit our lifestyle to the way we deal with everyday situations, and play our roles respectively, everything

would need to be simplicity personified.

Surprisingly it's easier to be complex, articulate, clever, and pompous than to be simple, as the latter demands genuineness, grounded and a real persona. 

Parents really need to bring up their children in a grounded manner so that these children grow up to be empathetic, genuine individuals who know how to carry themselves with simplicity in all spheres of life, despite the privileges around them.

Simplicity doesn't mean letting go of the good things one is fortunately blessed with but being gracious enough, thankful enough for it all and not letting that affect one's behaviour in any unacceptable way.

The Lost Resource - Rishona Chopra

It's July 28 today - we've just crossed into the second half of the year, but we have used up our allowance of natural resources for all of 2022.*

Every year, Earth Overshoot Day has been coming sooner and sooner.

This talks about natural resources being used quickly, but shall I tell you one resource we used so much that it is instilled in us? That resource is anger. Don't you think you have used this resource too much in the past few months or forgotten about months? Even in the past week, you might have used it, or even today, one resource we have not touched on is Happiness.

Happiness is a resource in abundance and never ends, you can use it then and now and as long as you live, but for some reason, most of us don't use this resource, which is perhaps the most essential source of life our entire life depends on.

Just like a car needs petroleum to move, our life needs Happiness to work. Today let's select and right down the times when we were truly happy. While remembering that day, let's pray today!

*As per a news item in The Strait Times of Singapore.

Rishona Chopra Grade VI

Gyanshree School