Memoria...

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Hello Everyone,

Memory in the middle ages was a huge thing, even in today's society. The art of being remembered is something that is relevant way back then as it is now.

Memory and commemoration in general is something that people do to be remembered. They do this for something as little as a name on a classroom room number plaque. These people give money and their own spare time to help out their society in any way they can. Some people don't have a lot of money to begin with so they give what they can and that may be just a $20 deposit to someone so they can buy books for students.

I think the motives of these people are mostly genuine. These people are the ones I went to school with who wanted to make everyone happy. Not all of them, but most people I know who would give their time and money would be for something like this. These people live to make others happy and this puts a smile on the giver's face.

Others, however, seem to do this for a sort of selfish reason. They give money to schools and charities so it looks good. A prime example of this would be a celebrity, I believe most of them are forced to help charities out because it looks good for them. They are the ones who attend events because, like I said, it looks good for their name. The celebrities who do extra to help make money for charities outside of these events are the genuine ones, I believe.

My favorite example of this was told by one of my favorite artists, Ed Sheeran. He told the story of one of his good friends, who is in my favorite band, Harry Styles. Styles had bought £3000 worth of pizzas and handed these pizzas out to the homeless so they could have something to eat. This wasn't covered by press or anything until Sheeran had told this story. Genuine people like Styles are the people who I look up to.

Many people I have come across are the genuine givers, some are the not so genuine. The people who do things out of the good of their hearts is people who I look up to. The people who do things to create a name for themselves, I think they need to reevaluate why they are giving to a certain cause.

Until Next Time,
~Amanda