Thoughts Before Dinner
"Children crave routine".
This is the principle that may just be responsible for everything that is wrong with my life.
I don't know how "children" feel about routine, but I think it's soul-crushing, and I always have. I thought about it and the times I've been happiest are the times I've changed things up. Every time things get too stagnant, I just start screwing up again.
I think that parents WISH that children would crave routine, because they crave routine themselves. And they only crave routine themselves because they always had routines as children and never learned how to tolerate breaking it up. And their parents only forced routines on them for that same reason, and so on. Eventually it all stems back to some ancient people who needed to organize to grow enough food to survive. The rest is all learned for the sake of convenience.
I dunno, it's just a theory. I'm not an anarchist or anything, but who the heck can stand doing the same exact thing every day?!
Organization is necessary to society, but that doesn't mean that we need to systematically destroy chaos just because it's chaos.
Here I go branching into the philosophical again. That never ends well, you know.
Unfortunately, I can't seem to find the middle ground between philosophical, know-nothing, vague, assholish rambles and just typing whatever random crap pops into my head. For example, compare my last train of thought to my current: "Jessica is learning that really annoying laugh from her friend Sarah. I'm hungry. Is mom calling us for dinner or is that wishful thinking?"
Maybe when I find that balance, I can be a really successful writer!
(Now THERE'S some wishful thinking.)
Hm, I haven't been studying on iKnow too much, as of late. I ought to get back into the habit of doing a few sets every day. I've been busy NaBloPoMo-ing...
The most significant thing you learn in school is how to make excuses (more important in the world even than the sacred 5-paragraph essay). But in my case, I only end up using the skill on myself, to justify my own personal laziness.
Dear God, do I ever need some less depressing things to talk about...why is it that whenever I think about my own life, the only conclusion I come to is that of general ineptitude? The only thing that must be worse than writing this junk is reading it. Sorry, people.
Oooooh, Animal Crossing is coming out for Wii, you know. I was considering going for Wii Music, but I read that it wasn't very good. Oh yeah, how about that "More Wii Sports" thing going on? Oh, and I never got my hands on POKERANCH....I'm also waiting on Sims 3. Must look into laptops that could potentially have the capability of running that inevitable monstrosity of programming. I think I can at least believe that it will last the four years that it needs to last (both the laptop and the program).
Maybe I'll start an initiative of non-obvious web quizzes. It's always so annoying when you can tell which result each of the answers go to. Well, I'm sure if you looked really hard, you could find at least one for each major fandom. Those things are fricking addictive.
Yeah....lesson 2, staying on topic: fail.
This is the principle that may just be responsible for everything that is wrong with my life.
I don't know how "children" feel about routine, but I think it's soul-crushing, and I always have. I thought about it and the times I've been happiest are the times I've changed things up. Every time things get too stagnant, I just start screwing up again.
I think that parents WISH that children would crave routine, because they crave routine themselves. And they only crave routine themselves because they always had routines as children and never learned how to tolerate breaking it up. And their parents only forced routines on them for that same reason, and so on. Eventually it all stems back to some ancient people who needed to organize to grow enough food to survive. The rest is all learned for the sake of convenience.
I dunno, it's just a theory. I'm not an anarchist or anything, but who the heck can stand doing the same exact thing every day?!
Organization is necessary to society, but that doesn't mean that we need to systematically destroy chaos just because it's chaos.
Here I go branching into the philosophical again. That never ends well, you know.
Unfortunately, I can't seem to find the middle ground between philosophical, know-nothing, vague, assholish rambles and just typing whatever random crap pops into my head. For example, compare my last train of thought to my current: "Jessica is learning that really annoying laugh from her friend Sarah. I'm hungry. Is mom calling us for dinner or is that wishful thinking?"
Maybe when I find that balance, I can be a really successful writer!
(Now THERE'S some wishful thinking.)
Hm, I haven't been studying on iKnow too much, as of late. I ought to get back into the habit of doing a few sets every day. I've been busy NaBloPoMo-ing...
The most significant thing you learn in school is how to make excuses (more important in the world even than the sacred 5-paragraph essay). But in my case, I only end up using the skill on myself, to justify my own personal laziness.
Dear God, do I ever need some less depressing things to talk about...why is it that whenever I think about my own life, the only conclusion I come to is that of general ineptitude? The only thing that must be worse than writing this junk is reading it. Sorry, people.
Oooooh, Animal Crossing is coming out for Wii, you know. I was considering going for Wii Music, but I read that it wasn't very good. Oh yeah, how about that "More Wii Sports" thing going on? Oh, and I never got my hands on POKERANCH....I'm also waiting on Sims 3. Must look into laptops that could potentially have the capability of running that inevitable monstrosity of programming. I think I can at least believe that it will last the four years that it needs to last (both the laptop and the program).
Maybe I'll start an initiative of non-obvious web quizzes. It's always so annoying when you can tell which result each of the answers go to. Well, I'm sure if you looked really hard, you could find at least one for each major fandom. Those things are fricking addictive.
Yeah....lesson 2, staying on topic: fail.