Make things simple, but no simpler.

In Sociology my teacher told us that many times how we see the problem is the problem. For example, the problem with hunger in the world is not that there are people starving, but that people will do nothing about it. This idea works on a macro level as well as on a micro level.

It is funny how just getting a simple pair of eye glasses can change the way you see the world. It is such a simple thing too: a pair of lens and a frame. And just wearing it makes everything else better. All those “better” things are still there whether we have the glasses on or not, but it’s just clearer now that you have a different way of looking at it. We can see so much by changing the way we look at the world. Each situation has an infinite amount of views we can take. We try to polarize a situation as either being good or bad when a lot of times it is neither. Going to the mall can be a good thing. You buy clothes for yourself or for your friends to make them smile. You can even say you are contributing to the general welfare of the country by putting money into the economy! But there's a bad side to it too. You could be using that money to help someone else who needs it more than you do or you could even be spending money wastefully. Everything depends on how you look at it.

If you had a bad day, try looking at it in a different light. Not so much the boyfriend that ignored you or the grade that failed you but the experience you learned from each. Experience is something you can only get if you want it. Without experience we would be pretty much lost in every situation we were put in to. The more you experience stepping outside yourself and taking another prospective at the same situation the more you will be able to understand where other people are coming from.

People rarely do something irrational. They see reason in it, therefore, they rationalize it. Rationalization is not irrational. The situation is the same but there are a thousand different ways to look at it. Give it another glance and see what you'll find.

I Can't Wait To Have Patience!!!

My brother Joey and I have been talking alot about a book he is reading- The Silent Planet. He made a good point about when the character in the story goes to another planet and eats a fruit that is absolutely delicious. The character, Ransom, tells the alien creature whom he's with that he wishes he could have more and more of this fruit because it's such a new experience. The alien, who is extremely smart, tells Ransom that how he feels is exactly what's wrong with his planet- earth. Anytime a human experiences something delightful, they want to completely gorge themselves with it. In which case, after they've fulfilled themselves, there is no longer anything special with that which they were gorging themselves with. Next, Joey and I began to watch a news reporter state how "sad it is that is hasn't snowed for this superbowl" and that "they wont be able to have a giant snowslide now." Then the another reporter buts in, "But that's not stopping these folks! They have snow machines running 24/7 until the superbowl, hoping to pump out at least 200 tons of snow!"

Back in the day when we didn't have this sort of technology it would be special when it did snow. But now-a-days if we want it to rain and it doesn't we say, "Hell, we'll make it rain!" and so, we proceed get firetrucks, hoses, and begin to pour thousands of gallons of water; and we "make it rain." We've lost all faith in spontaneous order within nature it seems.

I have realized this in my own life. I always want things to be going great...in fact, not just "great", but rather getting "better, and better, and better!" And when things actually start going, God forbid, normal, I think there must be something wrong. In reality nothing at all is wrong, I've just been having such a great time consistently, and I hit a point where it couldn't get any better.

The sayings "Things are so bad it can only go up from here" is completely true. It's also true in the same respect when times are going fantastic, and it can only get worse.

Moral of the Post: Just because you are not having a constant climax of fun doesn't mean somethings wrong. Time is the most amazing thing; you'd be surprised what it can accomplish, even if you are facing the worst of the worst time in your life.

Another tale of facebooking

I can not get over how amazing WiFi is. Even more amazing is how it is available to me during class in a lecture. Why on earth do they have WiFi floating around here anyways if we are not supposed to use it? The person to my right is playing World of Warcraft. The person to my left is watching “Lost”. The person in front of me is writing a paper for his Psychology class, which must be next period judging by how quickly he is typing. And the person behind is probably on Facebook as well, seeing as how from the corner of my eye she keeps trying to catch my name to add me to her friends, no doubt.

I am still paying attention to class, although every few minutes I glance to my left and watch a scene or so from Lost. Mary Kate Van de Woude just sent me a text message and my phone was not on silent. “What a horrible ring tone! Get some Mozart or Trotsky for goodness sake,” is the critique my teacher directs to me in front of a three-hundred strong Economics class. I would have been embarrassed, but I was more interested in what the text message said than what everyone was thinking about me.