Mindless Wanderings
I'll be frank, I know that I haven't been thinking of deep stuff lately. Lately I've been watching a lot (and when I mean a lot, I mean an average of 2-3 hours a day). I've just caught up with some of the series that I follow and I've been getting into new ones (Black Lagoon, Inukami, Genshiken). I get my daily doses of comedy and action for these past few days. Genshiken reflects my life in terms of anime and gaming.
But anyways I guess I'll make this topic into a deep thought. I guess its good to have these times of mindlessness, since it gives me a vacation from all the thinking that I need to do for school. Like I said in my post about growing up I just may never have this time to think about stupid things again. Thinking is hard I know, it gives me white hairs causing me to worry about things. Our world revolves around thinking whether in your career or even in a video game. We live in a world that says "think before you act" its the number one rule in our lives.
Take the educational system for example. We train students like myself using highly priced text books published by a company employing hundreds of people that we never see and professors and teachers expect us to spit the info in these books right back out. Now what I'm getting at is the fact that its a matter of absorbing the information rather than in and then back out again. This past semester I had two take home finals from one of my history classes. Now people complain that it was hard and they'd rather do a normal scantron exam. Now from a student's perspective I'd take that over a four page essay at home. But really the essay is a way to think about the material critically. I know these things since I took four years of history back in high school. But now I'm older and I need to know why these events are important and how did they serve the present? Life isn't just read this and give me what the book says, no its read this book and tell me what it means to you, the world and to society.
I guess at times its not good to do mindless things. I'm sure anyone would get bored pushing a button that causes pickles to go into a jar for an entire day. We're getting lazy mentally at times, it occurs everytime we turn on the t.v. to watch reality television, everytime we power up our computers, everytime we pick up the latest copy of people magazine. I admit I'm guilty for two of the three things listed above, but everytime I write here I try to think about whats wrong with our world today, sure I go on tangents like my anime ideas and character anaylzations etc. But I always try to get my share of deep thought everyday. So go out and think about something, maybe something creative, something deep because we can't escape thinking. We may not be able to get rid of it, but we can still keep it at bay by looking at the world differently.
But anyways I guess I'll make this topic into a deep thought. I guess its good to have these times of mindlessness, since it gives me a vacation from all the thinking that I need to do for school. Like I said in my post about growing up I just may never have this time to think about stupid things again. Thinking is hard I know, it gives me white hairs causing me to worry about things. Our world revolves around thinking whether in your career or even in a video game. We live in a world that says "think before you act" its the number one rule in our lives.
Take the educational system for example. We train students like myself using highly priced text books published by a company employing hundreds of people that we never see and professors and teachers expect us to spit the info in these books right back out. Now what I'm getting at is the fact that its a matter of absorbing the information rather than in and then back out again. This past semester I had two take home finals from one of my history classes. Now people complain that it was hard and they'd rather do a normal scantron exam. Now from a student's perspective I'd take that over a four page essay at home. But really the essay is a way to think about the material critically. I know these things since I took four years of history back in high school. But now I'm older and I need to know why these events are important and how did they serve the present? Life isn't just read this and give me what the book says, no its read this book and tell me what it means to you, the world and to society.
I guess at times its not good to do mindless things. I'm sure anyone would get bored pushing a button that causes pickles to go into a jar for an entire day. We're getting lazy mentally at times, it occurs everytime we turn on the t.v. to watch reality television, everytime we power up our computers, everytime we pick up the latest copy of people magazine. I admit I'm guilty for two of the three things listed above, but everytime I write here I try to think about whats wrong with our world today, sure I go on tangents like my anime ideas and character anaylzations etc. But I always try to get my share of deep thought everyday. So go out and think about something, maybe something creative, something deep because we can't escape thinking. We may not be able to get rid of it, but we can still keep it at bay by looking at the world differently.
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