Life, as portrade through the eyes of me

This is a bit off topic, but technically everything I do I think about, so it’s kind of not. I’ve thought about having many careers during the short 14 years I’ve lived, ranging from being a teacher to a scientist. My first career choice was scientist; working with chemicals to save the environment just fascinated me. Oddly enough, now I may be the farthest person away from a tree hugger on the earth, so I’ve kind of gone in the opposite direction. I decided to become a scientist when I was about five years old when my friend told me that we could earn money by proving the lake in our neighborhood was polluted, in other words we could sue whoever owned the lake or neighborhood. I bought books which contained experiments you can do at home, without going to the store, but I was too lazy to do many of them, the experiments I did do were very fun and interesting and I definitely enjoyed myself while working on them. My next choice was robot engineer. I’m pretty sure I chose this because of robot wars. I was going to win that show every time I was on it by having the biggest, baddest robot ever it was going to have lasers and machine guns and everything else you can imagine. This was my dream until I decided to become a chef. When I became a ‘future chef’ I definitely got more involved in trying to be one than any other career. I would watch Food Network almost everyday and even decided to take notes one time, until I realized there was a website, which stopped the notes very quickly. I wanted to be a chef until last year when I, for the first time in a while, didn’t know what I wanted to be, very scary! Within the past few months I was deciding on being a teacher or psychologist, but then realized I wanted to be neither, I just suddenly lost interest in both, and basically on the same time, as well. Now, right this second, I am thinking that I have many years to decide on what I want to be so, until then, I’m just going to chill, maybe play guitar in my free time, because that is extremely fun.

I’m almost positive that science has said that everybody’s brain works differently, but I don’t know. So, last weekend I was at an art festival, and I noticed many similarities among the artist. Well, I guess the most obvious one is they all create art, but that isn’t the interesting part. What I noticed was there were two main types of artists. The first kind was the tall, skinny, street performer type. We’ve all seen them juggling with the dreads and goatees in San Jose. The second is the old lady homemaker type. They look like your grandma. Now both of these types of artists create very nice pieces and are VERY kind. I’m not saying that those are the only types of artists, but it got me to thinking that maybe steriotypes are at least somewhat true. Maybe brains form in only certain ways, with differences here and there, but for the most part the same, like maybe there are only certain things people can be good at, because of their mind. Maybe only certain minds can become architects, or only certain ones can become bums, I doubt that but, hey, anything is possible right? I would really appreciate it if you would respond.

The following is a basic outline of how each and every one of our lives will run. First we will go through 18 years of our lives straining ourselves every day from sunup to sundown. During those 18 years we will eat the worst food you can imagine and some of our teachers will hate our guts. Also during those years we will make amazing friends and some enemies. Now, most of us will have more friends than enemies, but those of us who have more enemies than friends will be miserable for a lot of their important years of life. Oh, and we will be tortured by homework, after the hours that are required of us. After that we will go to college for at least four years. College is a lot harder than school with homework and papers that will make you cry, or at least that’s what I’ve been told, but it is also the first time we are officially free and apparently we will have the best times of our lives there. Then, after college, comes about 30-50 years of working for ‘the man’. We will be working more hours than in school and we will not get spring break, summer vacation, winter vacation or anything else like that. Some of us might even have to work on weekends. Aside from that most of us will have kids, who I’m guessing will be a blast to have, but they will also be a lot of work. After work will come retirement where we will get to relax all day and have almost no responsibility, the only part wrong with this, we will be too old to do anything! I don’t understand why we couldn’t retire before we work and work ourselves to death.  Anyway it all ticks me off because many of the things I dream of doing, I won’t be able to do when I retire! Nor will I be able to do them while working because I won’t have enough vacation days! There really is almost no incentive to finish school anymore, because nobody wants to work, people want to relax.

Freedom to me, I made sure not to read the definitions, is the power to do what you want, when you want. Now, this does not mean that there will not be consequences, every action has a consequence. If you kick a ball it soars into the air, that is the consequence of your action. Consequences are not all bad, even though many times we think a consequence is bad because whenever we hear the word it’s from our parents when we’ve done something bad. No sometimes consequences are good, like kicking the ball, it did what you wanted and can make you happy.  Now many governments give their people freedom and they give them consequences. The people get the choice to do what they want, and then face the consequences. The internet is never mentioned in The United States Constitution, so we don’t have any freedom of speech on the internet. Just kidding. If you create your own website you can make your own rules about what goes on it, but because we are writing our blogs on edublogs’ website we can only write what they agree we can. To me this really has no effect because I don’t plan on writing anything that wouldn’t be aloud.

In life there will probably be many times in life that you will hear “everything you do affects everything that happens to you” or something along those lines and you probably already have. Everyone who has seen The Secret video or read the book and believed it will probably tell you that this is true. Now I’m not trying to offend anyone, but I laughed while watching that movie, though that part is true…to a certain extent. If you tell someone a secret for example, this will not affect your job that you get later. Unless you are famous and that secret is revealing and the person you tell reveals it to the press. But if you do something that is against the law that will be on your record forever and many people will see that and not be impresses, including future employers. Even simpler things like getting hurt by falling off the swings when you are a child may affect you later in life. You may be scared to get on swings the rest of your life (not likely I know), or even more likely, that injury could have side effects later in life and keep you from playing sports professionally or even enjoying yourself with your friends playing sports or games. As long as you make smart choices nothing bad should happen later in life though.Hope you liked my thoughts!DJ

I have been thinking a lot about music lately mostly because one of the only things I do is listen to music. Anyway what I’ve noticed is that when you get a new song you listen to it a lot, right? Then afterwards not as much as you used to, just like everything else in life you get it and you love it when it’s new but afterwards not so much. That last part is not the case for a song you may not listen to it as much but you still love it. I think this is because other things penetrate just to the brain, but music it penetrates farther to your subconscious, or maybe you call it your soul.  When you stop liking a song you stop liking all songs of that type, usually, but when you stop liking something else you don’t stop liking everything else of that type.

So, today I had an awesome time with my friends. We went around Bosques de Lindora skating it up. We decided that Bosques is our turf and no Ripstix (or however you spell it) aloud. Anyway I think that it was fun because I did it with my friends. Also, I was trying something that I know I enjoyed, again, and I enjoyed it, again.