The 'philosophy' of learning
On the way to work, I was thinking. (Yes yes, I know. Moving on.) So I was thinking about the word "Shoddy". Then I realized.. "It's not spelled shoddy, it's spelled shotty. Or is it? I should look it up." (Later I found out it really was spelled shoddy, but that’s beside the point). Then, of course, I started to wonder, "Why do I think about how things are spelled?" I came to the conclusion that it's because I've spent so much time online in my life. But I quickly realized that just as many people spend just as much time online, if not more. Why then, are there a few of us "grammar nazis", and just as many (if not exponentially more) who validate themselves with the arguments "I don't care" and "This isn't English class".
"Hmm", thought I. "These are obvious personality traits that can lead further into a person’s character. Why do some of us more curious types like to know how things work, and why?” I can’t tell you how many times someone said something to me online, and I was on dictionary.com or wikipedia.com in an instant. When a girl once told me she liked Capoeira, I didn’t ask, “What’s Capoeira?” Such a statement would only allude to my ignorance, but more-so, my laziness. (To further illustrate my point, yes- I had to look up how to spell Capoeira. Saying, “I think that’s how you spell it…” just doesn’t cut the mustard with me, kids.)
This is the information age, people! We should be Johnny-on-the-spot with looking things up. References tools are at our fingertips like never before! Not even yesteryear did we have the ability to reference things with the ease and efficiency we have today. I mean hell, one word: Google. Redefining life as we know it.
You know what this also ties in with? And something else I’m going to start paying attention to more to justify my theory… Boredom. Why are so many people “bored” in such an exciting time? There’s so much to learn, to discover. There-is-no-room-for-boredom. So I ask- Are the people that refuse to look things up out of laziness the same people that say those two evil words, “I’m bored”?
Even if they’re totally unrelated, I don’t much care for either of these kinds of people.
Contrarily, I love the kinds of people with insatiable curiosities. These are the people that are in love with life, and always seem to find fulfillment and joy in whatever they do. These are the kind of people with initiative, and with imagination. Life isn’t about living by-the-numbers, or “keeping up your end of the bargain” by successfully completing your role in society. No! It’s about exploring, adventuring, discovering. ‘How many different ways can the work affect me?’ It’s not very exciting at all to only be affected by the ways I’ve already been affected, is it? That’s just tedious. Well tedious isn’t good enough. Give me more! If God created this Earth, what for if not for us to see!? If God didn’t create this Earth, well.. it’s still here,.. I’m still here.. and I’ll be damned if I live on this planet like a parasite feeding of its generosity for the sole purpose of perpetuating my life another day. That’s just selfish and wasteful. Not to mention the millions of people that would LOVE the opportunities we Americans have. Millions of people that wouldn’t piss it away like you do.
Live! Love! Create! Or get the fuck out of the way.
-CtP
"Hmm", thought I. "These are obvious personality traits that can lead further into a person’s character. Why do some of us more curious types like to know how things work, and why?” I can’t tell you how many times someone said something to me online, and I was on dictionary.com or wikipedia.com in an instant. When a girl once told me she liked Capoeira, I didn’t ask, “What’s Capoeira?” Such a statement would only allude to my ignorance, but more-so, my laziness. (To further illustrate my point, yes- I had to look up how to spell Capoeira. Saying, “I think that’s how you spell it…” just doesn’t cut the mustard with me, kids.)
This is the information age, people! We should be Johnny-on-the-spot with looking things up. References tools are at our fingertips like never before! Not even yesteryear did we have the ability to reference things with the ease and efficiency we have today. I mean hell, one word: Google. Redefining life as we know it.
You know what this also ties in with? And something else I’m going to start paying attention to more to justify my theory… Boredom. Why are so many people “bored” in such an exciting time? There’s so much to learn, to discover. There-is-no-room-for-boredom. So I ask- Are the people that refuse to look things up out of laziness the same people that say those two evil words, “I’m bored”?
Even if they’re totally unrelated, I don’t much care for either of these kinds of people.
Contrarily, I love the kinds of people with insatiable curiosities. These are the people that are in love with life, and always seem to find fulfillment and joy in whatever they do. These are the kind of people with initiative, and with imagination. Life isn’t about living by-the-numbers, or “keeping up your end of the bargain” by successfully completing your role in society. No! It’s about exploring, adventuring, discovering. ‘How many different ways can the work affect me?’ It’s not very exciting at all to only be affected by the ways I’ve already been affected, is it? That’s just tedious. Well tedious isn’t good enough. Give me more! If God created this Earth, what for if not for us to see!? If God didn’t create this Earth, well.. it’s still here,.. I’m still here.. and I’ll be damned if I live on this planet like a parasite feeding of its generosity for the sole purpose of perpetuating my life another day. That’s just selfish and wasteful. Not to mention the millions of people that would LOVE the opportunities we Americans have. Millions of people that wouldn’t piss it away like you do.
Live! Love! Create! Or get the fuck out of the way.
-CtP