random thoughts on a friday morning (aka avoiding homework)
wonder why it is that people write more when they are sad.
it's kind of like the tendency for people to only acknowledge things that confirm their personal beliefs, and ignore the (often more common) events that potentially disprove them.
so.... psych? is that what i want to do with my life?
it's ridiculous that we're expected to decide these things in our late teens/early 20s.
i guess i'll try it for awhile; see what i think. it's interesting enough..
i have so many things i think i'd be good at career-wise, but none of them completely resonate with my idea of "my perfect life." kind of sad that that's the way things are with most people. i don't think there are many people that are entirely satisfied with their career.
and you spend... what.. half of your life working? and it's when you are at your peak of vitality... pretty much sucks. i want to go exploring, not work.
buuut, most people would say the same.
that's just life, i guess.
but it shouldn't be!
it's pretty amazing... i read the other day that a person in the 18th century in their whole lives only learned as much information as we absorb from the weekly new york times.... crazy, huh???
we have all of this information available to us, and it's being accumulated at an exponential rate... and we have much more time on our hands, but the same sort of unsettled feeling that human beings have always experienced. with all this extra time, we can focus on it more... on our problems... on searching for the answers to those questions that we can never know. makes living in this modern age of technology physically easier, but perhaps much more emotionally challenging...
perhaps man is never supposed to rise above nature.
thus highly resistant mutated bacteria/viruses...
cancers appearing more and more as people start living longer...
global warming?
but who says what's "supposed" to happen. i guess..... that's a question of god.
it's kind of like the tendency for people to only acknowledge things that confirm their personal beliefs, and ignore the (often more common) events that potentially disprove them.
so.... psych? is that what i want to do with my life?
it's ridiculous that we're expected to decide these things in our late teens/early 20s.
i guess i'll try it for awhile; see what i think. it's interesting enough..
i have so many things i think i'd be good at career-wise, but none of them completely resonate with my idea of "my perfect life." kind of sad that that's the way things are with most people. i don't think there are many people that are entirely satisfied with their career.
and you spend... what.. half of your life working? and it's when you are at your peak of vitality... pretty much sucks. i want to go exploring, not work.
buuut, most people would say the same.
that's just life, i guess.
but it shouldn't be!
it's pretty amazing... i read the other day that a person in the 18th century in their whole lives only learned as much information as we absorb from the weekly new york times.... crazy, huh???
we have all of this information available to us, and it's being accumulated at an exponential rate... and we have much more time on our hands, but the same sort of unsettled feeling that human beings have always experienced. with all this extra time, we can focus on it more... on our problems... on searching for the answers to those questions that we can never know. makes living in this modern age of technology physically easier, but perhaps much more emotionally challenging...
perhaps man is never supposed to rise above nature.
thus highly resistant mutated bacteria/viruses...
cancers appearing more and more as people start living longer...
global warming?
but who says what's "supposed" to happen. i guess..... that's a question of god.