I'm generally the type of person who does not have expectations at all. This prevents disappointment and dissatisfaction, for the most part. I just kind of go with the flow, experience things for the sake of experiencing them. I'm a firm believer that experience is the best teacher, so I try to keep an open mind and let the nature of things take shape in my mind afterwards.
But I hate not knowing, and that's the worst part. I think I could have an entire post dedicated to this statement.
I don't really know what to expect with college. I think it will be exhausting, difficult, demanding, and rigorous, especially since I'm taking eighteen credit hours my first semester. That makes me kind of nervous. However, other than those slightly intimidating adjectives, I just don't know. I tend to underestimate things, and I'm afraid I've done this will college already. What am I getting myself into? I can take advice from others who have been there, but personal opinions, aptitudes, and attitudes vary so much. I seldom find someone who gauges my own abilities as well as me, someone who gauges the world in a similar manner.
Conclusion: experience is a crude, but very valuable teacher.
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Monday, August 8, 2011
Unstuck in Time
Time is an interesting concept.
Kurt Vonnegut wrote an entire book, Slaughterhouse Five, about a character who was unstuck in time--he moves through time so effortlessly, going from his past to his future to his present without much difficulty, just bouncing along. I can totally see where Vonnegut got this concept. I'm kind of in love with it.
In this movie, IQ, this eccentric old guy claims that there is no such thing as time, it's not real, something made up by humans in an effort to further control nature. This is what I choose to believe about time.
We really can't measure time. We try to, but who can really say if we're successful? Your future is constantly becoming your present, your present instantaneously becoming your past. It just moves on, we can't control it. It's one of the few constants in life, such as taxes and death and change.
Mother Nature has such an ironic sense of humor.
While we're on the subject, I really want a shirt with the words "I find this ironic" above a huge picture of an iron.
Kurt Vonnegut wrote an entire book, Slaughterhouse Five, about a character who was unstuck in time--he moves through time so effortlessly, going from his past to his future to his present without much difficulty, just bouncing along. I can totally see where Vonnegut got this concept. I'm kind of in love with it.
In this movie, IQ, this eccentric old guy claims that there is no such thing as time, it's not real, something made up by humans in an effort to further control nature. This is what I choose to believe about time.
We really can't measure time. We try to, but who can really say if we're successful? Your future is constantly becoming your present, your present instantaneously becoming your past. It just moves on, we can't control it. It's one of the few constants in life, such as taxes and death and change.
Mother Nature has such an ironic sense of humor.
While we're on the subject, I really want a shirt with the words "I find this ironic" above a huge picture of an iron.
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