Descriptive Essay About Mandala

Those of us looking around class on the first day of school, hoping to get a slight insight on what we might be doing this year noticed strange blobs on the walls from year past, maybe it was an art project? Aliens made it? We later uncovered them to be what they call ‘Mandalas’. At first when I heard the word ‘mandala’ I expected it to have connections to Nelson Mandela, but it could not be more different. A mandala is a form of Buddhist meditation. It was originally made by the Buddhist monks of Tibet and his since spread. We made ours about ourselves, but the ones made by the monks had a deeper meaning in their symbols. Theirs was made using colored sand and each one of their symbols represented a strong belief in their religion. After completing the mandala, the monks destroy the mandala and start over. This may seem irrational, but it is destroyed to show that they deny materialism which they think is the cause of greed. Blue is often seen as a color of calmness and serenity, this why I chose it to represent my calm side. When I am calm and relaxed, I

Why red? Honestly, I don’t know, but it just felt like the natural color for someone’s social side. The speech bubble with wavy mock-text represents speech, when I’m on my social side I can talk for hours on end which is a complete opposite from my calm side where I lock out all social contact. The tank represents my favourite video-game, ‘World of Tanks’. It is an online video game, not extremely popular in Europe but practically a third of the Russians play it. It may not sound that social to you yet but the social part is the clan I’m in. It is the official Luxembourg clan and I was voted leader of the clan for 3 years in a row, this being the third. The clan is a great community with players not just from Luxembourg but also around the world, every member knows each other well and helps them when needed and I find them great fun to play